How forgetful are you?

[bouncy]

For the past year or so I have noticed how forgetful I am. It is things like going upstairs and forgetting what I went up there for and other things like a work taking a message and then 2 minutes later it is out my head. I am starting to worry it could be something serious. Anyone else like this, things happen at least 10 times a day like this.

bouncy - you're not the only one. I often find myself standing in the middle of a room wondering what I went in there for! I have lists of 'things to do' all over the place and I've never used my diary so much since I had children. I remember someone telling me that you sometimes become forgetful when pregnant - they didn't say that it was permanant!

Bouncy - I know exactly what you mean!! I was beginning to regret all those parties when I was at Uni! Just being a mother I guess.... it melts your brain!

Do you have any other symptoms? It maybe just one of those things, but if you really are starting to worry maybe you should speak to your GP.

I began getting so scatty and forgetful after having DD, turned out I had an underactive thyroid. After 3 years of treatment and still feeling out of it, the doctor tells me I now have low vitamin B12.

Could be nothing of course, don't want to worry you, but it could be something to be looked at. Mind you sometimes motherhood is the most debilitating condition there is

Two words - mum's birthday.

It has happened to me since ds. I often find things in places that it shouldn't be. if you are worrying about it, you are more likely to notice the little things and blow them all out of proportion. If no other symptoms then I couldn't worry.

Very very very forgetful. Put it down partly to red wine consumption and partly to motherhood-brain-deterioration.

The worst thing is, I always used to know where things where - mostly Important Bits of Paper, I might have them in 6 different places but I knew what was where. Now I don't. I just had to ring our car insurers to ask them to send a new certificate of insurance so I can get our road tax because it has VANISHED!!!!

Jahn - I bet it's down the back of the radiator where I found all of dh's stray socks had gone. Or else in the toilet where ds decides all things need to go.

I have invented a ghost in our house and I blame her for most of the strange disappearnces. I hope dp doesn't read this, it'll blow my cover! Also, the older ds gets, the more things I can blame him for!!

I started to get a bit worried when I went for a wee and forgot to pull my knickers down. How batty is that? And I hadn't been drinking either!

LOL Josiejump.

ROFL Josiejump!!

I was cutting cheese for a sandwich when ds was only tiny. i cut myself off a chunk to eat, but forgot to pick it up first and promptly sank my teeth into me fingers......... what an idiot I felt like! DP was standing there and witnessed the lot! He still reminds me of that, the b*ard!

I'm ALWAYS going into another room to do something amd then having to go back because I have forgotten what I went there for!

I think when I pushed out DD I pushed out my memory cells as well. Tonight DH was looking for the keys to the shed and garage, which I had locked up today, who is the idiot who locked the keys in the garage and shed and can't find the spares anywhere - any ideas how to open them without breaking in?????? I am getting the silent treatment now - maybe I will have an early night if I remember where my bedroom is!

Not sure, can't remember what my memory used to be like

Bouncy I'm suffering from the same thing, I'm sure it's got to do with motherhood. About a year ago I felt the same as you, I started to worry that something was wrong... but some days are worse than others so I just put it down to stress/tiredness/too much to do. Surprisingly I'm usually more 'on the ball' than dh, so what does that say about the male species??!! Not much...

I'm so forgetful I pack my baby off to school and the big one stays at home! (almost).I think it's motherhood and all of those drugs I used to take so it's my own damn fault.

Yesterday I put my dinner in the microwave (boil in a bag jobbies) and I had ti take it out and shake the bags, well to cut a long story short, I went out 3 minutes later and found i never actually put my dinner back in. Oops.
My classic's include leaving front door wide open, leaving milk out overnight, and forgetting to pick dd from playschool (no I actually blame mumsnet for that)

See can't even remember which sex of child I have, I have a ds not dd.

I actually believe that there is a black hole in our house, where everyday objects, papers, toys disappear without any explaination. Sometimes they come back - in different places - sometimes they are just lost forever 'out there'

Have you tried down the back of the sofa, many a black whole in lots of houses.

Nothing to do with motherhood I am afraid ... I have always been like that!!!!

I hit 30 and then it all started going wrong - I end up searching for words. It's just age not to do with being a mother I'm sure. I guess I have to expect it to get worse - my poor granny has phone me up for the last 3 days to congratulate me on my new child and we've had the same conversation each time! Mind you it must be nice for her to relive the excitement of being a great granny again and again!

Very forgetful...I have a barbie brain.... Yesterday I was mid-flow chatting to DH and I just forget completely what I was saying....