One nice thing about my mom's terrible memory -- my sister and I send flowers for my parents' anniversary every year, and every year, my mom will call each of us to say thank you, and that she was so surprised, and that when she opened the door to see the flower delivery, she had no idea who they were from, and it was such a treat to open the card and see they were from us. I think it's about ten years that we've been doing this, and getting this same reaction.

That's both charming and worrisome.

I am always worried about my memory especially when words slip from mind because that was my mom's first symptom. (Today's word: sophisticated. But I found it eventually.)

One of the meds I'm on lists that specific memory lapse as a side effect. It's damn freaky, is what. You have the word in line to be said, and when the sentence gets to that word it just evaporates. I'm used to subbing a synonym (lifetime of masking language issues) quickly, but with this med, even the meaning of the word is gone. It usually comes back in a few minutes, but by then I'm dealing with the embarrassment of it all, and stupid frustration of fixing one symptom by aquiring another.

I'm also on Lisinopril and one of its listed side effects is "dry cough." Which is annoying. And I wish it would stop. Hack. Ahem.

I am always worried about my memory especially when words slip from mind

I share this and I lose words more often than I'd like to admit. Yesterday CJ asked how I lit a candle and I came up with "the flame thing" instead of lighter.

That's one of the reasons I went off of topomax, I realized how badly it was eating my words, and decided it was worth going off and seeing if my migraines came back...(they didn't, really)

Beverly, my husband had that same side effect, and there are alternatives to lisinopril. Maybe it doesn't bother you that much, but it drove him nuts.

It's at the annoying stage. If it gets worse, I'll discuss it.

It's damn freaky, is what. You have the word in line to be said, and when the sentence gets to that word it just evaporates.

Yep. Of course in my mom's case the big red flag was a lack of recognition when the actual word was provided to her. But still...

Topamax is also causing me the word loss, and the dry cough. And dry eyes. I still can't decide if it's worth it.

Also in my case it's not med related. It's my brain. My beautiful, but probably fatally flawed brain. I hope you all are nice to me when I'm unable to talk and all I do is smile sweetly at people and try to grab at the food.