memory and medications
 

Hello to all

I'm worried about the fact that my immediate memory is very bad: I forget what I was going to do, what I was going to say, what I was wanting to see. I'm taking meds for myasthenia gravis. I asked my doctor about this an he said that probably this is a side effect from one of my medications that I can'not stop to take.

Sometimes I feel that the bad memory is in fact an attention problem - my mind is always going to distant places and I lose many pieces of my day.

Does anyone have this problem? How do you deal with this?

(Thank for the support from Neurotalk: this community is a special place in the world.)

Bluestone

((((((Bluestone)))))))

Hi, boy, when I had that very badly I found it quite frightening.

I used to feel as if there was a black tunnel that was right behind me and it swallowed up things... I used to not be able to remember what room I had just been in, or where I was going or why.

that was because of hydrogen sulfide that I lived in... but years earlier I had experienced something similar after I'd been on antidepressants, which frightened me in relation to antidepressants after that.

Have you tried Methylcobalamin for B12 replacement at all?

I forgot to check what country you are in, some countries are a little harder to get it in than others.

B12 isn't a dangerous vitamin, so you could take it without worrying.

For sure take notes when you begin taking it, though... or you may not be able to remember what it was like before you had it, to compare with how it is after.

You can see my notes on my web site... they are just little phrases about my symptoms.

(((((((((Bluestone))))))))

I've had MG for 21 years and I agree that there is some cognitive dysfunction that occurs with the disorder. Most neuros will NOT agree which is very frustrating. However, they have never lived with MG. I suspect most of our memory problems or brain fog comes from our fatigue. So, MG doesn't cause cognitive dysfunction but the resulting fatigue from MG does.

Then, if you have to start taking other meds in addition to mestinon, the side-effects can really play on your memory.

I'm 36 and have to use post-it notes and lists for everything...