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Posted 7/28/2014 7:30 AM (GMT 0)
It's time to share our silly foggy moments........

Counting out change loudly to cashier and got to the pennies.....55, 60, 65, 70, 75.....(thumps head) oh, Lord, help me! The cashier helps me correctly count the rest. I left with a red face. blush

Washed my hair with my body wash..... (this seems to happen a lot).
turn

Okay your turn..... tongue
Posted 7/28/2014 4:07 PM (GMT 0)
Oh dear, I guess I should have written them down. There are so many...

Lately, mine seem to all be of the sort where I'm trying to explain something to my daughter, or tell her a funny new story, and she'll give me that "you're pathetic" face because, fact is, we've talked about it not long ago (she's not meaning to be mean, but I suppose this does get old for her. It happens multiple times a day.)

Does anyone else have trouble making decisions? I'm wondering if this is part of fogginess, because I don't remember being so wishy-washy when I was "normal." I've gone from Office Depot to Office Max to Staples to Target multiple times in the past few weeks, looking for a calendar for my fridge. After buying at least 6 and taking them back, I think I've finally settled. It's gotten to the point where my eyes/brain are as sensitive as my body, so it's as bad as clothes! The calendar has to be easy to read, without so much contrast in color that it makes me feel dizzy, big enough numbers to see clearly, etc etc.

Brother.

Debbie
Posted 7/28/2014 8:49 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, decisions, difficult. Or, asked a question and I get that deer-in-the-headlights look. Putting the toaster in the fridge. My family now holds up 2 fingers if they've heard it before. I know there are more but can't remember them right now. Foggy! ;-)
Posted 7/28/2014 11:50 PM (GMT 0)
I am always wanting to watch movies I have already watched. My family lets me know real quick about which ones I have already watched. I know my daughter gets tired of me asking her work and school schedule. I have the schedule on the frig, but I seem to always ask her still.
Posted 7/29/2014 9:14 PM (GMT 0)
Oh boy, I should keep a list. My son and I laugh all the time.
Hair dryer in the freezer( I have a half bath in the kitchen across from the bathroom .

Poor myself a glass of OJ and put the glass inn the fridge and eave the container on the counter

Swear I have had conversation w people that I have not and vice versa.

Walk into walls and trip constantly :)
Posted 7/29/2014 9:36 PM (GMT 0)
Ain't we got fun?  tongue  

Debbie
Posted 7/29/2014 10:06 PM (GMT 0)
I woke up foggy today..thats not an everyday thing!!!! Sorta just stayed in that zone and i feel cranky...but my hormones are also involved..maybe i will start a thread called hormones amd fibro..: (
Posted 8/1/2014 12:20 AM (GMT 0)
That may be a good idea!
Posted 8/1/2014 4:21 AM (GMT 0)
My hubby made a joke today that I may need to stop in the middle of my sentences and make a note of what the end of them are so I can get all the way through one. He thought it was a joke, but I think some days this would actually be a great idea. I keep forgetting what the heck I'm talking about in the middle of talking about it lol.

The making decisions thing, that for sure has changed for me. My hubby has always been indecisive so making all the plans has always been left up to me. A few days ago we sat in the car in a parking lot after shopping for almost 30 mins trying to decide where to stop for some food. With both of us having trouble making decisions everything takes sooo much longer.

Post Edited (Mattie2828) : 7/31/2014 10:26:18 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 8/1/2014 11:23 PM (GMT 0)
I have been foggy for the longest time now. I forget what I was going to do going from one room to the next, heck, I turn around in a room and I forget what I was about to do!!

I don't drive anymore. My concentration levels are not sharp enough. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I had an accident and someone died in the crash!

So, those are some of mine. But this thread is very helpful to me. At least I know that others feel the same way as I do and do the same things that I do.


Lindaloo
Posted 8/2/2014 2:25 AM (GMT 0)
For me the foggy stuff got so much worse when my d got too low, as i am working to bring it up..i am doing some better..

Still, we all have those days!!!

Post Edited (Ljm2014) : 8/1/2014 8:28:54 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 8/2/2014 8:36 PM (GMT 0)
I have one that stays in my memory when I was doing daycare I put chocolate in fridge and put milk in cabnet then at lunch time had to hunt for milk. My biggest fog thing to me is trying to talk sometimes and remembering words and names.
Posted 8/2/2014 10:47 PM (GMT 0)
I forget words constantly. I've resorted to saying "word I can't find right now" in sentences to my hubby so I can continue on and finish my thought before I forget what I'm talking about lol.
Posted 8/5/2014 1:40 PM (GMT 0)
I get my pop in a tea cup so it will stay cold longer ,and yesterday I ordered a sweet tea in a tea cup instead of my pop in a tea cup. Luckily the cashier knows me and we laughed it off.
Posted 8/6/2014 6:42 PM (GMT 0)
*sigh* I just took my night time dose of elavil with my lunch instead of my daily vitamin and aspirin that I meant to take. It's almost 2pm and in a couple of hours I have to go shop for a birthday gift then I have a dentist appt to get a filling. I'm worried about how my day is gonna go now =(
Posted 8/6/2014 7:12 PM (GMT 0)
I put my baby's bottle in the pantry and the cereal in the fridge. I always stop in the middle of sentences because I've forgotten what I was saying.
Posted 8/6/2014 8:23 PM (GMT 0)
Mattie, Yikes I hope the rest of your day is Ok. I bet you're sleepy. Hopefully it relaxed you at the dentist! !!!
Posted 8/6/2014 10:31 PM (GMT 0)
I've been busy today cooking. I decided to make homemade meatballs. Simple, huh? I made 48 meatballs for the freezer and I put them in a 400 degree oven for 45 minutes. When I took them out they looked delicious until I tried to pry them off the cookie sheet. They were stuck and burned on the bottom. I couldn't understand why since that's what the recipe said to do..NOT! I was to cook them in a 400 degree oven for 25 minutes! My brain didn't read it that way.

Oh, well. They weren't ruined but they are not round. LOL. They all have a flat bottom where I had to cut them off the cookie sheet. LOL. At least they won't roll off the spaghetti.

Sherrine
Posted 8/7/2014 4:14 AM (GMT 0)
They still sound yummy Sherrine!

Things didn't go as bad as I thought they would. I was expecting the meds to hit me hard because they help me to sleep so heavily but luckily they didn't. I was a groggy and yawning a lot, and was definitely relaxed at the dentist. I was mostly worried about looking like a druggy and nodding off in the waiting room.

I had to keep this appt because it had already been rescheduled 3 times, twice by me from fibro flares and once by them, and I have extra anxiety leading up to any kind of appointments so I'm glad it's finally done. Hopefully an ambien will get me through the night.
Posted 8/7/2014 5:04 AM (GMT 0)
Glad it went ok mattie...i have forgotten to take ambien til 4 in the morning a couple times...those were bad days....but some sleep is better than none...


Glad the meatballs were not ruined sherrine...i am ocd about rechecking my recipes while i am cooking.....i made a nice casserole yesterday afternoon...it makes piles of dirty dishes but is such a comfort food...and multiple meals from it....
Posted 8/8/2014 7:19 AM (GMT 0)
my four year old said he wants mommy to cook- i always forget and burn the rice
Posted 8/8/2014 8:34 PM (GMT 0)
The craziest was when my boyfriend and I watched a movie on Netflix and at the end I was like "that was a good movie" and he's like "umm, we saw that in the movie theater. Don't you remember?" Nope...couldn't pull that memory back from wherever it got shoved in my brain for the life of me! Guess it was a waste of the movie ticket for sure lol
Posted 8/9/2014 5:50 AM (GMT 0)
the fog! the memory problems! at first my docs said it was stress, or the depression. I changed the drugs that made me loopy, and again the stress and depression. not the opiates. Then dropped opiates and still complained about the memory problems- walking into room and not remembering what i was there for (oh yea, i was thirsty) you know.. things like that for three years.
finally I tried the Marinol and marijuana for 90 days and i did still complain about the memory-and this time they where quick to blame the meds! silly. for sure the gabapentin and lyrica were way worse when i would forget to wake up. and the opiates MESSS me up. it was a funny observation on my part, because i am off the meds cuz i am broke. I'm using old tramadol and xanax for now. and I forget stuff and stuff
Posted 8/9/2014 4:57 PM (GMT 0)
I have been on gabapentin for 3 years now. They are for rashes I get for no reason. Remembering words is the worst thing in the world to me . I love watching movies over and over again and not remember them it saves money on buying new ones. LOL
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