I'm freaking out over here and it really is over something so stupid. I microwaved some spinach yesterday and when it came out, I salted it and went about eating it. My daughter says to me about 15 minutes later, as she was about to use the microwave "Who put the salt in the microwave?". I just said, I guess that would have been me, but I'm thinking "Oh My Gosh! am I really losing my mind?" It's been bugging me ever since and am sure that this is the start of dementia! Please someone tell me you did something equally as stupid.

YES!!!! I have done equally stupid things, but I can't remember what they are!!! Honest!!! I am not joking!!

I have done whatever I did and when I found it, I said, "WHO PUT THIS HERE????"

Could ONLY have been ME!!!

It is very scarey, isn't it??

I do it all the time! I will even think oh something funny to share with my meno sisters> but poof I never remember!

I did paint a chalkboard on my hallway wall and it's so great to add notes etc. Mostly needed grocery items!

I have got groceries and when i got home put all the fridge/freezer food in the cupboards and all the canned food in the fridge....

Thats really not that bad. I've done worse besides leaving the car running for 2 days and wondering where my keys were. I've tried on several different occasions to try to make a phone call using the remote control instead of the phone. Heres the best one I wasnt paying attention when I took the laundry
out of the dryer and sent my daughter to school with her gym shorts with my underwear stuck to them. She wasn't happy when she got home.
See your not that bad yet.

I poured myself a cup of coffee yesterday morning and had my liquid creamer sitting next to the coffee pot. I then started to pick up the coffee pot to pour into my already full cup!! I wanted the creamer!

OH THANK YOU SO MUCH LADIES. NOW I REALLY KNOW I'M IN GOOD COMPANY.

Hilarious...your poor daughter, but this something that would happen to me for sure, and the condition my underwear are in due to my flooding episodes my daughter would ask to be transfered.





I won't go into the the many things I have done, but will say sometimes I think some of it is hormonal and some of it, for me anyway, is just not having my mind on what I am doing.....I am alot of the time not thinking about what I am doing therefore something will always get misplaced or just plain forgotten it was ever done. My sons girlfriend told me after a long search for his keys once they finally found them in the freezer ...now I know he is not hormonal, he just takes after mom.

Hi Jones,
I have a post called, I forgot to put on my clothes. You might want to read it sometime. I goes on and on about things that us ladies have forgotten. You would be surprised at how many of us have the same thing. I do not think that it means that we will all have dementia. Have a great day.

love,
menopaused

I think YOU have won the "Most Forgetful" award, Lara! Leaving your car running for 2 days!!! I remember you sharing that not too long ago! Hope things are better for you now.

LMBO!!!!

Ya think???? I'm in trouble if my memory gets an worse.

I have lost my own wallet in my 2 story townhouse, a small area and have no idea where it is.......

I call my family by all different names.......now I just point and say "You"........very rude

Butter in the cupboard then go out of my mind trying to find it later.....

Terrible with money memory.......or figures

Not as bad as leaving the car running for 2 days(gosh that must have been disorientating! I do not drive though.......) but I get the idea......

Eccentricity........I call it

Take care of that salt, babe......

Big hugs

Michah

Today I went to the grocery store and forgot where I parked my car for bout 5 minutes..the grocery bag girl was just staring at me like..you idiot..only to realize I was standing right in front of it the whole time !!!

I am headed for an assisted living facility at age 32 !!!

God help me

I spend so much time in front of the fridge for hotflashes that I find all kinds of papers, purses, keys, phone in there when looking for food!!! Imagine that!

Hugs ladies,
Jeaninne

Let's see...I have put milk in the cupboard and cereal in the fridge. Left coffee cup in the microwave after rewarming it only to find it later in the evening. I just smile. What bothers me most is relating something and then forgetting where I was going with what I was saying. I don't skip a beat. If I can't remember I just say, "Now where was I going with this?" Breaks the ice, most definitely.

LOL! Oh, gosh...go check your microwave right now! Did you remember to take the salt out?


What else might be lurking in there?
PUT A SIGN UP....it could save a lot of money...next will be the cheese or the milk. LOL!





LOL! When our Estrogen declines, so dose our mind. I am on bios now, and my short term memory has returned.

I really thought that I was going crazy. My mother would call and tell me what she was going to do for the day...two minutes later, I would ask her what she was going to do for the day. She would get very angry, accusing me of not listening to her.

As a defense, I made a rule not to ask her certain questions. Once she went out of town. I forgot that she told me about it. (more than once) I finally broke down and called her to ask where she was.... I started laughing....I told her I meant to ask if she was having fun. I had did not recall her ever telling me that she was leaving. Before the bios, I was having a very hard time.

He!!, I couldn't even remember to pick up my kids or turn off the oven. I resorted to writing notes on my hand. How would you like to go to the grocery store with "Feed the Dog" on your hand? I forgot to wash off the note...it was there for any passing shopper to see. LOL!

Does this get better? I would like to encourage you and say, "Yes." However, I just don't know...without the bios, I was a mental mess. I love to read and have exhausted libraries. For a long time, I stopped reading. By the time I finished a paragraph, I was unable to remember what the first part was about. This is how bad it got for me.

I now am reading again.

Shebee

Ummm,
I used to do the same things even in my 20s, once I put butter in bread box and kept looking for it all over the kitchen...
I am known to be upset minded since I was in elementary school, my mom used to buy me 2 sets of text book for each school year, knowing that i will lose few during the semestr.
I believe the upset mindness is related to anxiety, when you preoccupied with something, you care less about pety things.
Don't worry, we all this, it is not demintia, but ever heart, u have "girl's memory", this is what hormones do to women, LOL.
OTOH, men never can recall what they said or did 10 minutes ago
Makes you feel better, LOL

I lose EVERYTHING anymore.

I can't set something down. I don't trust myself. In the past month I've lost my work ID and two pieces of lab paperwork from the drs' office. Just disappeared into thin air.

Oh well!

I can so relate. When i get to work in the morning, I always put my cell phone on my desk. I don't know how many times I've grabbed it thinking it was my mouse. Done it with the stapler too. I even called our tech guy once to come and figure out why my mouse wasn't working.

I found my keys in the vegetable crisper once! I can't imagine who put them there...


I thought that I was experiencing some sort of early onset dementia until I read some of the posts on this forum. One of my favorite screw-ups was when I put the crackers in the fridge, and the cheese up in the cupboard. I ruined a really good block of Vermont cheddar!

Hormones can whack anyone out. And you can do bizarre things and think like you never have before. I speak from experience... and once I started taking hormones, I'm feeling much better.

i wouldnt worry til you start putting salt ON the microwave you,re ok in my book........

Same here ...I went to staple a piece of paper last week and picked up my cellphone!

I scare myself some days.

i have totally freaked out because i cant find my cell phone when leaving the house----WHILE TALKING ON IT!

BEAT THAT!

How's this one........... looked all over for my sun glasses and they were on my head, did I feel dumb.
Oh well I was home alone so there was no one to make fun of me.

Dear "Fried'
What an adorable piece of fluff!Lucky you that is one cutie!
My cellphone can switch on the T.V. so you are not alone!
Warm Wishes
Elizabeth

I've been reading everyone's posts with great interest. My only thought about this (besides telling you that this all does get better in post; I'm proof of that) is that you all are intelligent women and this has nothing to do with dementia. Have you ever heard of an absent-minded genius? Would you think it odd that Einstein misplaced his shoes constantly and forgot people's names and was just tuned in to every day trivia? He had his great mind on bigger things, and so do you. This isn't dementia; you all are thinking about bigger issues so your body goes into autopilot. Autopilot isn't very accurate, but it kicks on when you are deep in thought.

Same thing goes for people who are all wrapped up in trivialities. Ever try to discuss something with someone who keeps going on and on about something that's not very important? Did you ever start wondering if they are not too bright and did you ever feel a little bored? I sweat the small stuff big time, and I always will, and I get wrapped up in trivia, and I know I'm not too bright, so I speak from experience.

Some of the feelings of mental fog will lift once the hormones calm down. I had terrible short-term memory loss in peri, but after getting through meno I don't have it anymore. Why? The only thing that has changed is getting through peri. So this must have something to do with it.

Just remember, you're thinking about bigger and better things than where the salt shaker goes.

thanks!

In the morning rush, I was constantly losing my coffee cup, which I walk around with, because I really need my morning coffee.

That cup of coffee turned up in some mightly strange places. I know I must have put it there, but I not only don't remember putting there, but have to wonder why I would put it there. And many nights, upon returning home from work, I'd go to heat up something in the microwave, and lo and behold, there would be my coffee cup. Guess I needed to heat it up, but forgot that fact

This morning I somehow put the dishsoap in the refrigerator and then wondered how it had gotten there. Hmmmm, I was the only one home!!!