It’s like trying to hold water in your hands.
The tighter you squeeze, the quicker it’s gone.
<Reads something I needed to know, nods head vigorously in complete understanding, closes tab…>
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FUCK!
The worst was on stumbleupon when I would click “stumble” twice and see the most interesting page ever just to have it replaced with the next stumble. Then if you try to go back, it stumbles again… truly gone forever.
I probably wouldn’t be here now if it weren’t for stumble upon. I had 0 interest in online communities before them. Used it forever (it seemed like) before… stumbling, into their communities. People sharing and discussing the interesting stumbles they found.
Yep. The feeling of knowing you’ve forgotten something is so annoying, especially when its important
Yes it is the worst and as you age your trying to figure out how much you sorta always did this and if its increasing.
There is enough testing now that you probably will. What stinks about it is even if we got some sort of right to die by the time you would want to you would not be competent to and early on if your taken care of its not so bad. Like being a kid again. Later though. oof. would not wish that on anyone.
Is there a test I can take now as a baseline for later comparison?
I realize this is a question for a neurologist or psychiatrist rather than Lemmy, but, you know… USA! USA! USA!
I’m on medicine right now that generally gives me brain fog. I hate it. Feels horrible. At least it’s temporary? Oh wait. Not as temporary as I thought, it can affect (effect?) brain fog for up to 7 years after taking it. Oh. Okay.
7 years??? To me that sounds like it never goes away, people just stop reporting it because they’re used to it
ADHD meds causing brain fog? What?
And no, RebekahWSD said in another comment that it was for an infection, so not methylphenidate.
Are you one of those lucky ones where medicine just works on the first try? Perfect dosage day one? Because you’ll find many cases of ritalin aka methylphenidate not working for many people, that’s why I asked, what with this being the ADHD memes sublemmy. Thanks though for pointing out they answered it elsewhere in the comments 👍
