My suggestion is to fight it with games, wether it be cards, puzzles,
board games, watching tv game shows and trying to answer the questions.
This is what the Dr told me to stimulate my fathers memory and it does help.

I use to be so good at the puzzles and tv game shows. Haven't done any in over 3 yrs. Now I am starting over,you lose what you don't use.

And its fun too. Stimulate your brians with games !!!!!!


Riva

I'm with you there. Ever since my surgery,my memory sucks. My poor husband... I write everything down (if I remember too, and then I forget that I wrote it down or where I put it etc). I try to make everything as routine as possible. For work asnyways. My husband laughed at me the other day when I was making a chore list of all the things I wanted to get done that day. I explained to him (and he is already well aware) that if I don't write down EVERYTHING I need to do and mark things off as I go, I'll forget/get lost and it won't get done.

Hi Ellie,
Take my word my short term memory has really gotten bad since I've had my two surgeries. My epi told me that they saw where the hippocampus on the RTL had gotten hard and shrunk from yrs. of absence and cp sz. so they removed the right hippocampus. There are often times when I will ask my husband the same question 2 or 3 times like what does he want for dinner?
My epi and neuropsych told me to do word search puzzles and crossword puzzles to help better my memory. Here's wishing you well and May God Bless You!

Sue

I like to go to pogo.com and play solitare. I don't have problems with flash, animations, etc. so it works well for me. Also, yesterday should have been a sign for me but I didn't pick up on it. I ended up having a filthy set of seizures that scared the crap out of me. They just took me from 1,000 MGs of Keppra to 2,000MGs - so I may be sleeping for the next day or two.

Hopefully I will get answers soon, this is only the second time I've had this type of an episode, but it scared the crap out of me. I don't like not being able to move, see, or speak. I had a moment of wanting to hold up a white flag, but I'm too stubborn for that.

Just a small lapse of losing faith, but Chemar really gave me comfort. So did Rockin4Epilepsy and Curious. I don't know where I'd be without everyone around here, it's nice having people and places to turn to when you're feeling alone.

*Gushy*

I wuv you guys!!

Oh, I forgot to add. I used to do a lot of word puzzles but sometimes if I have smaller seizures, I lose a bit of my vision in my right eye so it's hard for me to see words without them going blurry, moving, etc. I have a lot of fun with card games, I can focus much better on them. I do get cranky when I lose. I swear, one night I sat there for like 5 hours trying to win this stupid jackpot.

hehehe.

Sending you some hugs.

Hoping you are having a better day.

DOnna