Have you ever felt like you were ready to say something and then think, wow, if I start to talk it's going to come out wrong? Like might be slurred? So then, I wait a few minutes and it passes and I can talk and think normal. I haven't actually tried to talk then the thought scares me. It's like all things are jumbled up. Other moments I am sharp as a tack, talking and talking up a storm.

yes, enough...I have been there, done that, got the t-shirt!

It is indeed very scary....I start to speak then my mind does an absolute blanko..I mean I am dumbstruck, like my brain has stopped functioning!...it hasn't happendeed of late, so I'm hoping it has passed.

seems its all part of this crazy process!

caz

Thanks, so I am not going crazy? I guess it's another form of these memory things that everyone talks about, I guess I have walked into rooms and forgot why. lost keys (for years) etc, but the verbal stuff freaks me out. It happened other times and I even mentioned it the doctor and he didn't even flinch, so I guess there is no concern.

Yes, and quite often I didn't heed the warning thought and opened my mouth and made a garbled mess of my sentence.

Your title also reminded me of another problem I had earlier in peri but no longer seem to suffer from it. It's the internal need to scream but no sound comes out. Have you ever experienced this? Usually it's within a dream and the terror is at my throat and I'm struggling to scream for help, Even though it originates from a dream I'm cognizant of screaming but also paralyzed to move. It's a nightmare within a nightmare. Have either of you experienced this?

Years ago, I remember dreaming that I was trying to scream but nothing coming out. It was awful.
I am sorry you have had this thing with the words but so relieved I am not alone. when hardly anyone answers I think "oh they think I am really sick, but are being too nice to say it". I think there is a hormonal link, this is my period week, which was really light, so I know I am fluctuating.
Have a great day.

Wow! I've had this happen several times... One time I was in the shower and thought I was screaming inside and my dd comes to the door screaming my name because I was "actually" screaming! It was an awful experience, awful, one that I try to forget. Just thinking about it is making me shake...geez.

What awful things we have to endure....


TJ

I seem to know what I want to say but it never comes out that way

oh yes----i has happened to me me---NO JOKE,i can;t remember if any of you have posted as to when these problems have ended,or started getting better for you.love to have something to look forward to having.i know we all are different but ........

Libby, I'm still waiting on this one...heavy sigh!

TJ

Hello,
Thanks for answering. I really felt alone in this. I wonder if it's hormones or anxiety. When I feel like I want to talk but scared it won't come out right, my stomach tightens up, like a quick spasm. Silly, huh? Sometimes I get a warm flush on my face too, so I think it must be a combo of hormones and then nerves give in. I hope it settles down soon. I really hate this one. Some other things I can live with, but this freaks me out a bit.

Yeah, I've had a feeling like that. Happened a couple of times when I was having a kind of disconnected feeling along with a mild anxiety attack, Tried to talk and I felt like my tongue had swollen up or something. Hard to explain really, but it scared me lots.

Wow! I thought it was just me. Sometimes I go to speak and it comes out a stutter... Sometimes I can't even get the word out and sometimes a whole other word pops out! Sometimes I'm terrified to speak because my mind will go totally blank in the middle of a thought. Scares me to death! It's one thing not to remember a word, or a name (which is another thing that's happened over the last year or so). It's a whole nother thing when you actually can't clearly utter a thought. Woe is me! It feels like all the words are jumbled up in my head and the harder I try to think about what I want to say, the faster they spin around.

I swear: When I went to bed last night, I was thinking, "I would love to post something about the stuttering/stammering I've been experiencing. But I can't do it. Because no one else out there will have experienced it. And it will be proof that I'm suffering from MS or early-onset Alzheimer's or a delectable combo platter of both."

Thank you for starting this thread. This is very disconcerting to me. I, too, will stammer, stutter and say the wrong words. If I really focus and talk slowly, I'm generally OK. But if I try to get a thought out quickly, inevitably I will butcher what I'm trying to say.

(Of course, the perimenopausal hypochondriac in me is convinced that the rest of you are normal and that my problem really is related to some horrible disease that will be the end of me by Wednesday. )

Sukie

I have been so happy to hear from all of you. You have no idea what a wreck I have been. After a really clean bill of health yesterday I dont' know why I still dont' believe it's true. I have a diary of sorts that reminds me of all these wacky things and they have been there for two years, even after loads of tests. I never had these things before that so I think it's a dreadful disease. Even the doctor told me how happy I should be, that I really am healthy. These hormones really do a number on us. When we were teens and going through it, everyone just said, Oh its hormones, now, why do think it's something awful?

Thank you all for answering. When noone responds I worry more.

I have been so happy to hear from all of you. You have no idea what a wreck I have been. After a really clean bill of health yesterday I dont' know why I still dont' believe it's true. I have a diary of sorts that reminds me of all these wacky things and they have been there for two years, even after loads of tests. I never had these things before that so I think it's a dreadful disease. Even the doctor told me how happy I should be, that I really am healthy. These hormones really do a number on us. When we were teens and going through it, everyone just said, Oh its hormones, now, why do think it's something awful?

Thank you all for answering. When noone responds I worry more.

[quote name='enough' date='Mar 24 2009, 09:51 AM' post='274604']
I have been so happy to hear from all of you. You have no idea what a wreck I have been. After a really clean bill of health yesterday I dont' know why I still dont' believe it's true. I have a diary of sorts that reminds me of all these wacky things and they have been there for two years, even after loads of tests. I never had these things before that so I think it's a dreadful disease. Even the doctor told me how happy I should be, that I really am healthy. These hormones really do a number on us. When we were teens and going through it, everyone just said, Oh its hormones, now, why do think it's something awful?

Thank you all for answering. When noone responds I worry more.

hallo and yes! i'm thinking my spaces in speech are more to do with the autism and less with menopause, although if i'm tired or stressed this presents more often. over the years, as i've had plenty of time to accept this little amusing or not so amusing feature of speech, if i can just relax while it's happening... the words usually return, and i laugh!

mostly seems to happen at the check-out.

best,
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Since I wrote this post this morning, I went to the pharmacist to refill my Sertroline prescription. I got up to the counter and said, "I want to see if my prescription is ready. Its last name is ..."

Apparently I'm an "it" now!

(Thought of you all.)

Well, at least something came out... Hope you're feeling better today!

TJ