Brain Function?

Any notice problems with their brain function beyond just that of an occasional bout of fibro fog?

I can't figure out if it is fibro itself or the combination of all the medicines I take, but my brain is not the same anymore. I am only 22 and I feel like I'm getting old!

Someone tells me something, and sometimes I can forget it in a matter of 5 minutes. Sometimes simple things really confuse me. School work is becoming harder and harder. I'm having trouble with names. I feel like at times I am seriously going crazy.

Anyone suffer from this as well? Anyone have suggestions? Are there supplements that help brain function? Anything?

Thanks,
Sarah

I wished I could find that magic pill myself! There are days that I just feel so dingy. I have a really hard time remembering names but not faces. I have a little trick for that, if someone tells me there name, I think of something that rhymes with it...for instance the name Sherry(my name btw) I think in my head Sherry very berry cherry :) Something silly but usually it works....not always because sometimes there are names that you just can't make things rhyme with!

I am always forgetting things and according to my hubby I ask him the same question several times and tell him the same story several times, but thats the way he sees it, lol. Maybe I am asking him to see if I get different answers?? lol. Hmmm I am feeling pretty old these days and yes to some of you young ones I am but I still have a good 20 or more years left in me to enjoy. I would actually do as Sherrine suggests and research your meds I know the side effects on some of my meds are terrible.

nsbennet - is this due to the meds you are taking or is this something that happens with Fibro. I am currently in school and this past semester and last semester was pretty hard concentrating, remembering what I just studied. Feeling no energy to keep up with anything. I am just learning about Fibro and trying to find the best dr to go to, to get the right diagnosis.

Sarah...both Lunesta and Requip list memory impairment/loss as side effects of the medications.  I would check that out with your doctor as having fibro fog is bad enough but having a drug make it worse...that could be corrected.

Donna

Fitgirl,
I have changed my medications to see if it was due to the meds but I haven't had any improvement with any of my "brain" issues. I started back on Fluoxetine, because they told me that it could be due to anxiety and that hasn't helped me, I never thought that it was an anxiety issue but I went along with the doctors recommendation. I am also in school and I find it really hard to concentrate and I have to reread things inorder to fully understand what I am reading about. I thought that maybe I had something more serious going on with my brain but the neurologist said that my brain is fine. It makes me feel like I have alzheimers, that's literally how bad it gets. I answer phone calls at work, put the call on hold and by the time I call to another area of the clinic I can't remember who is on the phone anymore :(

I think that you have to figure out what things you really need to learn and focus in on those things. I read everything for my classes and I have to make notes, notes that I can understand when I go back to study. We just have to learn how to do things a little bit different then everyone else. Learn your strengths and your weaknesses, making flash cards have helped me out a lot, and I try to always take notes of things. I know that when I get home I won't remember to do something so I have to make a note to remind myself or call my bf so he will remind me!

This isn't the greatest illness to have, but it's also not the worst. You can most certainly get through school, just make your instructors aware of what is going on, they will be understanding, and ask for help whenever you need it. I think that's the only way that I'm able to get good grades, because I know that the instructors know what i'm going through and I'm not just pushing my education to the side, I am trying, I just may not get it as fast as everyone else.

My brain always has more trouble when I am in a flare. When it happens, I stop trying to think and do something else. That helps because trying to force yourself to think is extremely frustrating and exhausting and makes it worse!

I, too, am in school, which is why I have been absent for a little while. Trying to learn signal detection theory by Monday. Also, this weekend, I need to write part of a final and the next class midterm and do some data analysis. Spacing that kind of mental activity with physical activity makes both easier to do.

I also take prenatal vitamins, e, b, fish oil, coq10, d, and c. Don't know if it is helping, though.

Sue