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Posted 4/23/2012 2:00 AM (GMT 0)
Hi everyone,

Normally when I have fibro fog it's something simple that only lasts a few moments. I'll put the milk in the cabinet and not the frig or perhaps go up the stairs forget why go down and remember again why I had gone up in the first place,but today seemed different. I couldn't get a thing done. I had things I wanted to do,but forgot more often than usual. I caught myself spacing out unable to focus for the majority of the day. I thought I'd ask here if this can be common with anyone else. Is your fibro fog a moment or can it last longer?

Posted 4/23/2012 2:16 AM (GMT 0)
I have it, but am getting up there too, so that could be a part of it. But mine seems like it is always there. Then I forget about it. lol...

I hope that you can do things to help this. Maybe word games or some computer games. Keeps the mind sharp. I like to play bookworm. It is fun...

Hugs, Karen
Posted 4/23/2012 2:38 AM (GMT 0)
I have the Fibrofog a lot it happens when I am watching tv, cooking, shopping, i laugh it off but it really bothers me. I find that forcing myself to concentrate doesn't work because..well..I forget what I am supposed to be doing and end up doing something else.

I said to my hubby today that I can remember singing songs and really enjoying music and now I rarely listen to music because it bothers me and when I do I can not remember the words.

We tried having a conversation this evening and somewhere I got totally lost and had to give up, he thought I was giving him the "silent" treatment but I was totally lost. Not a good thing when I think I was winning an argument.

My daughter says she can see when I suddenly have the "duh" moments and usually she just accepts it and jumps in to the rescue, hubby not so much.
Posted 4/23/2012 4:27 AM (GMT 0)
Grandmoses, the memory thing has been a real big issues for me. I started complaining several years ago to my dr's. All I got was some bad reports from test with no reason for it. I try to do memory games and reading short stories. I have gotten worse over the last year, but I just try to stay focus on today. My family is aware and I try to keep myself safe when I am by myself. I seem to keep stoc in post notes now. I am only 48 very young to have poor memory.
Posted 4/23/2012 2:47 PM (GMT 0)
Fog is worse for me while I'm flaring...I'm in a fog zone...my concentration level is lower...it is impossible to multi task. There have been days I won't even drive because I declare myself too spacey.

When the fog lifts, I feel liberated :)

Hugs, Robin
Posted 4/23/2012 3:29 PM (GMT 0)
The fog is usually worse when I'm tired. Now let me see, when am I not tired?

Seriously it is a little better in the morning, but by the afternoon and evening I am

kind of out of it. Last night I was watching TV with hubby and he asked me something

about what had just happened and I was clueless.

It is also very hard to carry on a conversation when tired because words just disappear

from my vocabulary. bleep, bleep, bleep fog!

I'm only 60 and graduated college with honors, what's its going to be like when I'm 70?

I now fm is not supposed to be progressive, but can any long timers tell us what happens

with fibro fog, does it stay the same, get better or worse?

I feel your pain and confusion.

Posted 4/23/2012 5:38 PM (GMT 0)
I'm 23 and it is very common for me to have it...even for a day or two at a time sometimes. Mine gets worse as I lose more and more sleep. But I've noticed that reading as much as possible on good days helps my brain to keep going when it can. I went through 9 months about two years ago that I can barely remember and I couldn't read then or pay attention to the TV. But making myself exercise my brain helped. But nothing has stopped the normal fog that comes and goes for me. It is frustrating and sometimes scary. I get it.

Kagenda
Posted 4/23/2012 6:08 PM (GMT 0)
On good days, it's not so bad. My students who know me know if I pause or get stuck on a word to help me out. Mostly, I play off the problem as a ditzy moment.

On worse days, it can last a while. Short attention span, losing words and ideas, hard time processing new information. Though, I have noticed that I tend to ramp up my attention and energy for being at work. On the worst days, I am far better when at work than when I am at home or with family.
Posted 4/23/2012 6:35 PM (GMT 0)
Oh gee - I was always a spacequeen, even before fibro. By now - let's just say I am not one to advise anyone on this subject!

Anyone who, at 13 years old, leans back against an electric burner she'd JUST TURNED ON to read the back of the jello box - um - maybe there were some marbles already missing. Maybe it was Fibro even then, making one part of my brain disengage from another...?

Yes, my shirt caught on fire OF COURSE and I got 3rd degree burns on a large area of my back, had to have skin grafting, it was a huge ordeal. My poor mother had thought that at that age, I could be left alone.

Debbie
Posted 4/23/2012 9:51 PM (GMT 0)
Debbie that must of been horrible. I am sorry to hear that you burnt yourself so badly.

Fibrofog is a given for me too. I have always had to make myself concentrate on what I am doing.

It helps...

Hugs, Karen
Posted 4/24/2012 11:49 AM (GMT 0)
If I'm getting tired, I can't think at all.  It's absolutely ridiculous!  I don't even try to carry on a conversation when I'm tired.  Also, sometimes the barometric changes can cause a foggy day for me, too. 

 

Sherrine

Posted 4/24/2012 2:12 PM (GMT 0)
Hi, I too have fibromyalgia. Also arthritis, osteoporosis (pre-menopause), just had surgery for GERD, degenerative disc disease and I'm sure more that I can't think of right now. :-/ I worked for 26 years as a legal assistant. I worked for one employer for 10 plus years when I started having fibro fog. This was before I had ever heard anything about fibromyalgia so I attributed it to stress. At my job in addition to doing the legal work of a legal assistant, I also had to do all the bookkeeping, ordering of supplies, office manager, secretarial work for two lawyers; entered time for 3 timekeepers and the stress of it all just got to me. This was the beginning of my fibromyalgia although I wasn't formally diagnosed for another 5 years. I was in extreme pain, diagnosed with chronic tendonitis in my arms, carpal tunnel, etc. I eventually left that job because my boss was not at all understanding. I went elsewhere and trying to learn new office procedures brough my fibro fog to new heights. One job I got I quit after the first day because it was so bad, I couldn't even remember their names. Then I went to work for a large law firm thinking I would just blend in and that was the worst. I tried so hard and worried so much how I was going to support myself and my teenage son. I went through 5 jobs in 2 years because of the pain and the fibro fog! Here I am years later, been diagnosed and won disability, and now I don't get the fibro fog nearly as much. I think mine was definitely stress related and so much worse when under pressure to think straight! Now I only get it if I try to balance the checkbook or need to concentrate on something. So I guess it does get better if you don't have a job. My heart goes out to all of you. Fibro has robbed me of the last part of my life - I can't enjoy much anymore and living on pain pills. I have a swim spa but it's so hard to get changed and it only helps for a couple of hours so I don't use it as much as I used to. I try to stay as active as I can and I too pay dearly for 2 - 3 days when I over do my housework or shopping. I just thought I would post about how fibro fog made me lose my livelihood! Thank goodness I found some really good and understanding doctors.
Posted 4/24/2012 4:44 PM (GMT 0)
Hi, Hopeitworks. Welcome to the fibro forum.

Sounds like you've been through the wringer. I'm sorry you're feeling so bad, now that you finally have the chance to relax more...now that you can think straighter! Having good doctors is always a plus, at least.

My husband has GERD, and Barrett's Esophagus, but do you think I can get him to take it seriously? I wish he'd come on to the forum here, and read and compare with others, but - probably not in this lifetime. :(

I hope you get to feeling better.

Debbie
Posted 4/24/2012 9:07 PM (GMT 0)
Oh my, I am so glad I found this thread! My husband gets so irritated with me because we will be talking and I swear not 1 min later I can not remember a word that was said. I too put the milk in cupboard and clean plates in the fridge.... I just tell everyone that I am a space cadet and they buy it, but really I have been very sharp my whole life, so this is quite a struggle for me.
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