The Fog...asleep...what?

I think I have probably mentioned this in another post...who knows?...but since it has been a brutal, unrelenting winter I have probably spent too much time in front of the t.v. at night.  Every time I pick something to watch, the husband inevitably says' we already saw that...it's a re-run,' or 'how many times do you want to watch that movie?'  This is really starting to concern me because I do not remember watching what ever it is.  Sometimes a scene will look remotely familiar but most of it is a surprise.  I told hubby I am worried about this and he said "you fall asleep the minute you lay down on the couch."  I  disagreed with him, of course...I think I would remember falling asleep.  So tonight the Big College Game was on and I have tons of relatives in Oklahoma so I sat up straight in a chair and started to watch the game.  I Love football.  I woke up with 14 seconds left and do not even recall the first play.  I don't mean to imply this happens all the time but enough that it started to make me wonder what is going on in my mind.  I have rented Charlie Wilson's War twice and I know I wasn't asleep the second time because we had company here watching it will us.  I could not tell you a thing about it or who even starred in it.  So the BLOCK isn't because I was asleep.

Does this happen to anyone else?  Is it The Fog...am I half asleep...Is it lack of concentration?

By the way, when I woke up after the game I had to run for the pain killers.  My entire right side is on fire from the position I sat in for three hours!

donna

I've been doing the TV and movie thing for years now. My DH says the same things Donna but I think he finally realizes I don't remember watching things. It's the same way with places we have been on vacations, he will say remember when we were at so and so and I don't have a clue what he is talking about and this was way before fibro. My youngest son says he went to Niagra Falls with us one year and I have no memory of him ever going to Niagra Falls with us. I remember taking the boys many places but not Niagra Falls. I think they tell me this stuff to try and drive me crazier.

 

I don't fall asleep while watching TV. It has to be a very good show or movie to stick with me. I have my favorite movies that I have watched several times and I remember them quite well.

 

The scary thing is when one of my sons will ask me about something in their childhood and I can't remember it. Yet, I remember things when I was three and four years old like it was yesterday.

 

I know that xanax can cause memory loss but I would have no quality of life without it.

 

luv and hugs

Marlee

O girls, thank you for this post! I thought it was me! I don't know about you, but I am in my late 50's, okay, I'm 57, so I thought maybe this is just part of aging. Also, my mom has Alzheimer's, she was diagnosed five years ago, so you can imagine what goes through my mind, how I scare myself when I lose something or can't remember something. I don't watch a lot of TV, but the programs I do watch (Grey's Anatomy, Big Loser) I do remember, for the most part. It's conversations I don't remember, especially with my husband. I blame it on almost 30 years of marriage, that I simply don't pay attention to him when he speaks...I'd much rather think and believe it is the fibro!!!
Miriam

Ooh you're still young, girl! I'm 54,so as far as I'm concerned 62 is young and I'm sticking with the fibro for my answer. I heard that the latest fad in France is for women to now tell people that they're 10 years older than they really are and voila!...you look fabulous for your age.

Cynthia

If you are old at 62, dont feel bad, i`m older 63, and as of today married 44 years, and blessed ones  at that.  Now as for remembering what you watched on tv, look at it this way you can see it all over again and it will be new to you, you will never have to get upset at reruns again.

 

I can`t remember to finish a story when i am talking to my husband let alone try to remember a movie.

 

Oh by the way maybe they already told you this in the letters above that i read , i don`t remember. lol, really.