So scared

DollyP

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Dec 14, 2015
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I am so pleased if I have found this group. So hoping you can help me. Here are my mitigating circumstances (!) that I use to rationalise my on and off memory. I spend hours and hours on my laptop because of my hobbies and Facebook and just that I am very sociable. It doesn't help that I'm a touch typist so type as fast as I speak with people and am constantly stimulated by this and that. My worrying symptoms are:-
  • Calling my cats by the names of cats we had 9 or so years ago (I never did this before)
  • Not remembering which is the cutlery drawer
  • For the last month of so, having night terrors and waking up not knowing where I am. Taking time to work it out / my husband telling me. (This may be a leftover from sleeping tablets I used to take but I am also worried that they have damaged my brain)
  • Driving along and suddenly losing my bearings. This really frightens me.
  • My husband has to repeat things to me (though he says this is because I am always on the laptop and not listening)
  • I completely forget dates but always have them on my diary. But if I didn't have them there, I would really forget them.
  • I feel surreal and disassciated sometimes; ditto anxious
  • It doesn't help that I get psychosomatic things and hypondria so as soon as I read something about it, I get it. The air is full of demential and AZ symptoms but no reason for me to ignore this.
  • I freqently lose my keys and am very very scatterbrain and butterfly brain (but always have been.
  • I find it hard to concentrate (OK with my book but not watcing television - but is that because I want to get back to doing my hobby on my laptop?)
This morning, I lost my mascara and hunted on my table high and low. I gave up and dug an old one out and then when I got home later, the two were next to each other. Scary stuff.

I am 68.

Can I go somewhere and pay to have a brain test? Everytime someones says that 'outgoing high function' people get it... well that's me. But if I did have it, would I be able to type this fast and accurately?. Is it just because I have complete overload from the combination of fast communication and my people-loving personality?!!

Please help me.. I am so frightened.

:confused:
 
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Beate

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May 21, 2014
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Your first stop woud be your GP. Tell him what you told us or print it out for him. He can do some tests and refer you to a memory clinic if he thinks it might be dementia-related. It could be other things too, so try not to worry. I assume you live in the UK so there is no need to pay for a brain scan.
 

DollyP

Registered User
Dec 14, 2015
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Your first stop woud be your GP. Tell him what you told us or print it out for him. He can do some tests and refer you to a memory clinic if he thinks it might be dementia-related. It could be other things too, so try not to worry. I assume you live in the UK so there is no need to pay for a brain scan.

Thank you for your quick response. Now have to go and brave my GP
 

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