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    #46
    I do this a LOT. My family's favorite example: I spilled the ashtray at my desk, and asked my son to what I thought was bring me the broom - what I actually said was bring me the spoon. And for some reason, knowing I needed a broom, like a good son he brought me a spoon. This is example was shortly after I was diagnosed. It's my family's favorite example because it's the only one I actually remember, it's been recounted so many times. So when my kids get a word mixed up, they call it "pulling a mom". I also reverse words, lose a train of thought mid sentence, and other things.

    When I lose a word, I try describing what I mean, but they get frustrated when what I'm describing doesn't actually match totally up with what I mean, so the words they suggest don't fit.

    One thing that I HATE - I'll be typing, and my eyes will drift up to the line above it, and I'll substitute a word from the line above for a word that I'm typing.

    For me, it's definitely not age. I'm 37. And oddly enough, I've found that I have trouble remembering my age...right before my birthday, I started adding an extra year to my age. I was substituting my husband's age for mine....I don't know what my excuse is now, because he's not 38 anymore, and I'm not 38 yet!

    And it took me proofreading this three times before I felt relatively confident that I could send it out!
    Diagnosis: May, 2008
    Avonex, Copaxone, Tysabri starting 8/17/11

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      #47
      Oh, I forgot another example I was going to use. I was at a wake for a friend's uncle. I was talking to her mother (the uncle's sister) and she told me thank you for coming, and I grabbed her hand and said, "Thank you", as if I was saying "you're welcome", which is what I MEANT to say. I probably came off sounding a bit weird.
      Diagnosis: May, 2008
      Avonex, Copaxone, Tysabri starting 8/17/11

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        #48
        Me, too. I will forget what I was about to say in the middle of a sentence.

        Also, lately I notice that I've been reversing words, like Birthday Happy

        I have not yet been diagnosed with cognitive problems, but these coincidences are odd.

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          #49
          I can't talk either!!

          I am 37yr old female currently undx but suspect MS.I ended up in the hospital bc I suddenly started stuttering and stammering,slurred speech also.I have been losing words and saying crazy things too.I was trying to tell my 11yr old daughter to slow down eating by placing her fork on her plate in between bites.Put your hands in your mouth and chew!!!!I also had a stomping fit with my husband trying to tell him that the paper he was looking for was in the back pouch of the thing in the car you sit on to drive,I could not think drivers seat or car seat or seat for that matter.It definitely makes me crazy!!!!I just saw a new doc who is an MS specialist and hope to have anwers soon.btw the hospitalization they said it was complex partial seizures, but it happens to me very regularly with out the severity of that time though.Hope this made sense bc sometimes I don't LOL just learning to accept it

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            #50
            I guess I will toss my own tuppence into this turbulence......

            I am quite a talker, always have been, long before I even went to school.

            AnyWho... a couple years ago, I was in a conversation with my fam-doc... no big deal, right? well here is my rub. He was filling in the blanks as I was speaking. Problem was he did it PERFECTLY, as if HE were leading the conversation etc. I did NOT realize what had happened till AFTER-wards..... It was so perfect it was as if only ONE person was doing the speaking! Needless to say I vowed and told him, I would NOT let this happen again...it was EMBARRASSING to say the least.

            GAMES.. I have a small Android tablet (no phone) with various games. I favor checkers, but have many others as well. It's not only great for Dr waiting rooms, long checkout lanes, but also as a mental stimulator. I play to not just win but to eliminate ALL the computers chess pieces.

            I Always knew I was wired differently, now know WHY.

            Gomer

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              #51
              I am in the process of being dx. Had my first flare that I'm aware of end of June which was with numbness that went away within a few days. At the end of August, I went through a couple of weeks where I really noticed that I was forgetting words, people's names that I worked with, couldn't concentrate to save my life, and would lose things that were right in front of me. I couldn't even remember things well enough to compare one list of names to another.

              Well meaning people at work especially kept reassuring me that they forgot stuff to and that it must be premenopause or just stress (I'm 48 and it was during the first couple of weeks of school - I work at a high school). I know what I was experiencing and strongly suspect in retrospect that I was going through a flare. I haven't yet been back to see the neuro, but plan to definitely bring this up when I do.

              Has anyone had luck with any medications to help with this? I used to take ritalin and that seemed to help me more than anything...with my ADD symptoms as well as the forgetfulness which I noticed almost ten years ago for the first time.

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                #52
                Not Age

                I'm 56 but don't believe this is age related. Sure - with age some people forget names or why they walked in a room. But this is different. As one person said it shouldn't happen 56 times per day. Also, I have also said a whole sentence that I have no memory of but 2 people heard me. My husband tells me I substitute words but I don't always catch it. I work with seniors with dementia and I don't see this phenomena with dementia. I have heard of it with both MS and lyme disease. No, we aren't going crazy but it can feel like it.

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                  #53
                  B12

                  Yes this can be the most frustrating symptom of MS. It certainly is for me. I went through the "I am so stupid" faze to having to laugh about it. When I say something particularly off center, I laugh, say I am sorry my brain just went on break.

                  I have been very up front about my MS at work and vendors that I work with. I know I forget things and need their help in keeping things on track. I don't want them to get testy when I ask them for the same thing 3 weeks in a row. It doesn't have to be a big drama scene, I just tell them what the issues are, what I need from them and that yes I have MS, but I am fine...just a little forgetful from time to time.

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                    #54
                    Not alone!!

                    Wow!! Glad I found this post. I do this all the time. I completely lose my train of thought if there is alot going on in the room. I have four kids and when I try to talk to my hubby and the kids are running around and the tv is on I get so frustrated and have to go to another room where it is quiet to collect my thoughts. I even hear things wrong, but I have a great since of humor about it. I just repeat what I think I hear and everyone usually laughs trying to figure out where I came up with that. I tell them that is what it SOUNDED like to me. My family is very used to me doing that now. As far as strangers, Laugh it off. Make it a joke and make up your own words if you need to. I know I may sound crazy but if people see you take it hard they will be hard on you. Just take a deep breath and tell them it is MS brain and they have to have a little patients.

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                      #55
                      WOW! This is awesome to see this thread... I really thought I was crazy..... Before I was dx'd, my DH would get so mad at me because I would have to stop in mid sentence to think of the word! Now he understands !!

                      THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
                      Sx's 5/1996 Dx'd 9/2011
                      RRMS- Betaseron, Copaxone, Tecfidera, Aubagio
                      Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all

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                        #56
                        The people I work with have learned to "read" me. I notice the hesitations most when I'm nervous or feel like I've been put on the spot to answer a question.

                        I really have to think about what I'm trying to say. Takes a little longer, but I usually get around to the point.

                        Hang in there.
                        Marti




                        The only cure for insomnia is to get more sleep.

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                          #57
                          I have the same thing! It's not funny in many ways, but this post has me laughing. I love the Frog Brain! perfect!

                          Not only do I have problems finding words, substituting them, I type the wrong letters into words now and I was a legal secretary doing 100+ word dictation. It's driving me nuts, but my BF is worse so we frustrate the heck out of eachother.

                          The worst part of this crazy stuff is that I was fired because of it. I shouldn't have been so darn good at what I was doing then when I slowed down they never would have noticed!!!

                          Oh- I also feel like my tongue and lower jaw is frozen, it feels very hard to speak but I'm told I don't sound differently. strange.

                          It's becomse a strange little world, this MS.
                          This music is the glue of the world Mark. It's what holds it all together. Without this, life would be meaningless

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                            #58
                            I spent most of the year genuinely thinking it was 2010. And I work for a newspaper.

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                              #59
                              My 80 yr old mother and I speak the same language, that's how bad it gets at times. And she doens't have MS! We roar with laughter when we're both trying to speak. People generally leave us alone....
                              1st sx '89 Dx '99 w/RRMS - SP since 2010
                              Administrator Message Boards/Moderator

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                                #60
                                Me too...

                                I have the same problem with not being able to find the right words. I know what I want to say, but it does not come out. My Husband looks at me and asks me what language are you speaking? Haha... I did it at work last night and my coworker just looked at me and said, can you repeat that? It seems to happen more when I am tired or Hot and as I get older.
                                Poohkers Diagnosed 9/99, Copaxone for over 10 years! Trust not on your own understandings, but believe in his LOVE for you!

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