Brain fog- just how bad has yours got?

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I've read about people having brain fog and have understood that feeling of forgetting what you went into a room for, going to the shops and buying everything but what you went in for etc.
BUT I'm forgetting conversations a lot. Twice today I was reminded of something I said in recent months and I have no memory of it at all. I'm starting to think there's something wrong with me. Please tell me this is happening to you too!

I was feeling like I was out of my body and my brain didn't function as before.
I couldn't find the correct words, I was forgetful and with difficulty at recent memory.
I found myself struggling to remember things at my work and I was anxious and depressive. You are not alone! :)

Phew!!
What helped you?

Oh yes, this happens to me every day. It really worries me at work because I don’t want to forget something important and cause a problem or an embarrassment for anyone. The other day I almost sent a letter of promotion to the wrong person. Then I looked everywhere for my mouse, and it was right there next to my computer the whole time.

I work privately and I took off for a month. I started hrt and after a couples a weeks I was almost as my old self. I have a very healthy lifestyle, so I didn’t need to change something else.
My clients said that my vacations benefited me...! :)

I forgot the Chief Executives name the other day when he came to speak to me, thankfully he just thought it was amusing. I keep forgetting my work.

I’m terrified of forgetting something important, either a family commitment / arrangement or a work issue. I write everything on the calendar and note it in my phone, I still seriously struggle to remember what is supposed to be the following week.

Oh and I now struggle to make decisions, I’ve turned into a dithering old woman. Can’t take hrt as I’ve had breast cancer. Hoping it all clears one day.

Stress plays a huge role Missy.
My fear not to make a mistake or forget something important made things worse. I was so afraid that my clients wouldn’t trust me that I finally started to lose my confident and to subotage myself.
Our mind can make the difference! :)

Today I've been ok, but some days it's like an impenetrable veil (I can physically feel it). DH is constantly telling me that he told me stuff that I have zero memory of. Either he is wonky or I am

I write everything down. I'm losing confidence in myself. I make ridiculous mistakes.
Very healthy lifestyle. On HRT & still getting worse...

So it's proper then? 😁 I'd been bad but all of a sudden it's like I've been in a dream for ages.

Is HRT the only solution?

My DH mentioned that we went to a sculpture park in Cornwall in September. Until he gave me massive clues, I could not recall it. Really scary. I have downloaded a brain training app.

I lit my stove the other day (it was wet and miserably cold out) leaving the doors open and piling it with wood so it would take (spitting as it did) and I could close the doors with the vents open while I walked the dog and we would all come home to a close house. Well I was half way through my 4 mile loop walk when I realised I hadn't gone near the stove since lighting it. I fully expected to get home to smoke billowing out the window. Luckily it was burning away merrily and the house was intact but I had aged about 10 years in those 20 minutes (a new record for a panicked trot for me!)

Yesterday I parked my car in a car park badly (can I blame that on menopause too?), took my keys and wallet and walked the ten minutes to the city centre. I was mid way through my list of things to do when I realised I had left my handbag on the back seat of the car. Wtf?!

I aged yet another 10 years on the gallop back to the car imagining a broken window and missing (empty but much loved) bag. I am so dismayed by my absent mindedness. I love wine but avoid it now because I found that dh and dc were saying "well you said..." and i couldn't recall! this way I know it is dodery-ness (or their warped versions of events) and not a glass too many (which seemed to be happening too often). At this stage of life it seems a clear head is obligatory!

Panicked that I had left my car in Brighton while driving home in my car from Brighton

Looked for my phone using the flashlight on my phone

Poured washing powder into the sink to do the washing up

Spent a good 40 seconds trying to lock the front door with a key from the inside before realising the keyhole is only on the outside

That was just today

I forget how to spell words. Never had a problem with spelling but now my brain freezes and it won't come to me. Also forget words and that is totally new too. Were both my strong points so miss them.

Oh god where to start? Just today I spent a very embarrassing whole minute trying to remember the word apprentice, while my male colleague looked at me in that way , you know what I mean, that f&&&ing look that says it all. I just want my vocabulary back please. As for misplaced 🔑, 💼, it is a daily anxious dance. Hate it

Mine was quite bad early on in peri but doesn't happen quite as often now. What I find most frustrating is when people say things like 'remember when I told you....' and I have zero memory of it at all. I'm sure I'm forgetting to ask people how things went, or wish them luck and I find that really frustrating as I don't want to seem as if I don't care. Terrible with names too - really shocking.

Thankfully I work with teenagers and I'm pretty sure most of their mums are the same, as they are very good at finishing sentences for me, even if they do roll their eyes when I being a bit ditsy.

@Namajesty, haha that sounds so familiar. Shouting 'where are my glasses, has anyone seen them?' and having them in my hand. I panic over my phone being missing all the time and I always have it in my hand at the time.

I think I'm peri, brain fog was v bad a while back. I've been taking vit D every day and that seems to have helped.

Just stood watching a member of staff at the supermarket instead of putting my shopping on the conveyor belt

DH was asking what everyone wanted to eat, I said DD wanted Whiskas 😳

DD told me the other day I have worked out what you have Mummy, its called dementia 😂