This is serious - please reassure me

[OnTheTipOfMyTongue]

I am posting under a diff name as I am embarrassed about this.

For a little while I have been worried that I am displaying early signs of dementia or something.

I stammer when I talk/forget halfway through saying things what I am talking about and ask the person I am conversing with what I have just said as I cannot remember.

When I am speaking or writing I have a word on the tip of my tongue but cannot grasp it and my writing and thinking does not seem to "flow" iyswim. I have to stop and repeat the sentence several times up to the word I cannot remember and then eventually, it comes to me.

I am very worried I am developing dementia and I don't know if I should see my doc or just hope this will pass.

Do you know, GPs rarely laugh people out of surgeries. I'm serious. Especially if you have a history of turning up at your GP (like most normal people) when there is something wrong - ie aren't down in the records as a chronic hypochondriac. My mother is a GP and if someone came in to her surgery with your symptoms, she would listen to them because she would know that people only come in if they are worried about something, and there is usually a reason for that. It may not be the reason they think (that is the GPs job to diagnose, not yours) but they don't ignore.
Tired, busy mothers of young children are far more likely to under-present themselves to the GP than over-present themselves.
Please have a bit of faith in your instincts, go, and see what he/she says?

Had a similar experience a year or so ago. I would forget what I was talking about, what the other person was talking about, mix my words up, not beable to articulate and explain myself and events. I went to GP as was worried and finally went for a scan think it was the MRi one...anyway they found nothing. My Gp was very understanding and took me seriously and reassured my concerns.

It was put down to extreme stress and anxiousness, I has split up with dh at the time though still living in the same house, had no real friends just aquaintances and two toddlers.

I found that my thoughts would wander continuously no matter what situation thinking and reeling about everything....so was advised to try and control thoughts to help focus. If my mind began to wander I would pull it back to the original thing trying to focus on.....it got easier to do this and I found I could concentrate on things for longer and longer which meant my words rarely were muddled (except when ver tired), I could remember what I had said and the other person had said and explain things. Also was advised that when in a conversation with someone to slow down and focus on what they were saying and I was saying rather than my mind thinking of what to say next.

Would definately reccommend you seeing your GP or two, thats what they are there for. Is it a particular situation or during the daily routine that this usually occurs?

I think I've finally come out of this - and it had gone so slowly that I didn't realise it was going. My kids are now 17, 13 and 11 and I must have recovered in the last 3 years...

I went to the doctor with similar - exhaustion, inability to think or even to remember the word for the toaster, putting the clothes in the dishwasher and the plates in the washing machine. When she found out I was working full time with three young children and said 'What do you expect? Of course you are exhausted, you'll just have to put up with it'. But neither she nor I laughed .

But I would still go - no point worrying when you can either get treatment or know that it wil go in time