I take Amatadine twice a day - for me there is some difference - dead to 1/2 dead, tried Provigil and as PCP says, I am a little hyper and like Ritalin and ADD/ and/or hyper kids, had an adverse effect, tired me down, not up.

Cog fog (I don't work) means I get overwhelmed by home tasks I once had no problems with, following directions (especially written assembly or complex computer stuff). Short Term Memory (STM) not very good but Long Term Memory (LTM) pretty good. I struggle with, but am not as good as, at organizational skills, but physical barriers contribute to this problem. To put it briefly, this sucks.

ME ME ME and also struggle that my cogfog.. memory issues without a dx makes it hard to explain... but I can always say I am deficit on the memory testing I had done years ago....

anyhow wanted you to know we understand, hugss,sarah

It very definitely leaves me with a confidence issue. My social life isn't the same either. I can't remember names, details of their life or anything. I won't let my kids live any further away than 3 hours cause I'm not sure I could make the trip. It would have been the reason I quit but I was in a big excacerbation and I never went back to work after. But I'm fine as long as my Grandkids still love me! Life can be very interesting, I am teaching my little ones how to play charades in order for me to get my words out at times.

Gosh, isn't that the truth. I don't have gkids but having my loved ones close helps.

This is my least discussed/talked about symptom.

My 84 year old Mom, 61 year old sister and me at 59 all laugh about this. Mom is just plain old, has had a couple of strokes affecting more her cognition, my sister has fibromyalgia and I have MS. So we say that between the 3 of us that we have a total of 1 brain. If all of us would be in agreement at any given time it would be nice though.

Trish, your 1st post hits the nail on the head for me. Last night I had to have DH reset my alarm clock so that it would ring in the a.m. instead of the p.m. I just couldn't figure out how to do it.

Yup! I've done stupid things like this too! You know the solution to the problem; it's in the brain somewhere but just won't come forward to let you know. And all the little neurons in back are laughing as they play this trick with you. LOL j/k