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Feel Like I'm Losing My Mind

A MyFibroTeam Member asked a question 💭
Daventry, UK

I have trouble with words my brain will think one thing and my mouth will say another but I won't even realise until someone points it out and the other day I was helping my 4 year old learn to write but everything I wrote down the letters got jumbled up no matter how hard I tried to concentrate (I know how to spell the words) is this a fibro thing or am I genuinely starting to lose my mind now 😕

November 27, 2016
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A MyFibroTeam Member

It happens to me quite often, I try to say one word and another comes out. I now stutter when I get nervous, afraid the wrong word will come out. Makes it hard to have a conversation. I mostly stay in because of it.

November 30, 2016
A MyFibroTeam Member

Yes it is a fibro thing and I think it gets worse As we get older. It's part of fibro fog. I also have chemo brain. I had breast cancer in 2015. They tell me the chemo brain can last up to 5 years. I've got it double. LOL I feel so stupid sometimes. I have been playing a lot of word games. I think it helps.

November 29, 2016
A MyFibroTeam Member

Okay so I think by now that Msrj is getting the hint that it's fibro fog as literally all of us have said the same thing, but without anything useful ....
So here's something...

Fibro fog – also known as fibromyalgia fog and brain fog – is a term commonly used for the cognitive difficulties that can occur with fibromyalgia.

What is fibro fog?

What is Fibro Fog?
“My patients tell me that fibro fog feels like they’ve been taking cold medicine constantly,” says Rob Keenan, MD, MPH, assistant professor of rheumatology at Duke University School of Medicine. “They have difficulty concentrating, finding words, holding conversations, feeling alert and remembering things.”

I found this to be a fairly good explanation of it and I hope it clarifies it for you x

November 28, 2016
A MyFibroTeam Member

It is fibro fog , Sometime I feel like I'm in a daze or I feel like a zombie trying to cope with this illness I'm 61 and I do forget things and then out of nowhere my answer comes if I looking for something and can't find it, What I hate the worst is talking to someone and completely lose what I'm talking about sometimes it's a couple days later when I'll remember and I'll call or text them and tell them what I was talking about a couple days earlier , This does come along with age my friends my age experience the same thing and they don't havef fibro it is frustrating.

November 28, 2016
A MyFibroTeam Member

It's a fibro thing sometimes my hubby/ mum/ kids catch my slurring words or getting confused cos I know what I want to say but the word won't come out of my mouth.

November 27, 2016

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