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Moderator Comment by Trish on February 13, 2012 at 12:28pm

I have problems with my short term memory too. I have ever since my bleed but it has gotten a little better. It's very random, never know what it is I may forget. I get distracted easily too, which is why I sometimes end up burning something on the stove. I'll get sidetracked and forget what I was doing before the other "urgent" matter presented itself. I think Ninibeth is right. I think part of it is just we're getting older and our brains don't compensate as well as they used to.

Moderator Comment by Ninibeth Ramirez on February 12, 2012 at 11:13am

it has been 13 years from my avm hemorraghe.. Since my brain injury I had memory problems.. but I have been more cognitive issues for 2 or 3 years now.. I told to my neurologist and he told me that my brain is getting old. He explain me that when I was younger(19) the other part of my brain compensat the one were I had my brain injury..... I sugest you explain your Dr how do you feel and your consenorns..

Comment by beansy on February 11, 2012 at 10:24pm

Tina
My son is 31, and he did not know I was goofy, he just knew I was a good Mom. All his friends liked to hang at my house. I think he turned out so well, and he's a good guy. He lives far from me, in Virginia, and I am in Florida.

My mother told me after the AVM never to talk about it. I guess that I thought that meant my blindness too. So I didn't.

With my son, and all kids, I am just myself. I am not that way with adults. I have a hard time being with groups of people, and have some social angst or agoraphobia maybe, I do go out, sometimes I want to, sometimes I do not.

Maybe the hardest thing for you to do is to try and not worry about your memory. It takes practice - not worrying. I had to stop obsessing, I did it, too. Not about memory, but things that never happened anyway. I think what we worry about mostly will not happen; it's a real waste of time.

beans

Comment by Tina B. on February 11, 2012 at 8:39pm

Beans~ I am 39 now... After my rupture I had an angiogram which showed a Posterior left thalamic arteriovenous malformation......in my medical charts there is also mention of corpus collumsm... I was just always told the center of my brain....

I am pretty forgetful, but it seems to be getting worse as I get older. Over all though.. I have led a VERY normal life.. (if there is such a thing as normal!!) My daughter said to me the other day when she was reading threw my story I was writing that she had NO idea I had anything wrong with me... she said while she was growing up I hid it well.

Comment by beansy on February 11, 2012 at 8:02pm

Hi

I don't know how old you are, but you said you were 10 when your AVM bled. Where in your head was it located?
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My AVM bled when I was 9, but I am 61 now. I have been a very forgetful person since the AVM. I still am. My mother would say I would forget my head if it wasn't screwed on. I constantly replace debit cards cause I lose them. I throw important stuff away.

Here's one. I went to school to get a guide dog, and brought him home last week. I always forget his name, plus I forget sometimes he's here. I am visually impaired from the AVM, and if I hear the dog but don't see him, I think a person is here, mainly my husband who died in 1997.

I am a plain old forgetful mess, and it's been this was for half a century. Hang in there.

beans

Comment by Tina B. on February 11, 2012 at 5:06pm

I did go to my husband and tell him what was happening... I asked him to just please keep an eye on me to make sure it didn't get worse or that I didn't start doing crazy things.... I just took my med for a headache.....I have to call my dr monday to see what the plan is for my headaches cause what I am doing is not really working.

Moderator Comment by Patti G on February 11, 2012 at 4:38pm

Hey Tina,
If your symptoms are new, I'd encourage you to give your neuro or HCP a call, or possibly go to the E.R. Best to be safe! :)
In Dec. I too was noticing cognitive (name recall) changes & it had me worried. An MRI ruled out bleeds or changes, so that was a relief, yet still didn't explain the cognitive issues.
Hope you're feeling better.