How do you all explain memory loss

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Here's one that might make you laugh.

About two months ago I signed up for an online memory class. It was a little over a month long and I talked one on one with the teacher over the internet. You worked on different ways to remember all sorts of different things. Names, things that you've done, words and things like that. I had a notebook from them that had and I also added notes to it. A litter over a month into the class I was cleaning up my room and found the same notebook from the same company for the same class! I'd already taken the class and don't remember a thing about it! Guess it didn't work that well!!!!

Anyone think I should take it a third time if I can? - "Third time's the charm!"
 
I have a really hard time remembering names. I can see a person's face in my mind, but I can't remember their name! Even with people I've known for years sometimes.
 
I have a problem with recalling people's names as well. For me, I've noticed that people who I regularly see I have no issues with--I see their face & I can remember their names. The biggest problem is when it is a person I don't see (maybe even family) that I RARELY see.
I am able to remember many of my mom's friends' names even when I see them after 1 or 2 years because I've seen them since childhood. The memory issue side effect that I find MOST bothersome is "word loss". MANY times, I'll what I want/am trying to say, but can't. I'm literally able to see what I'm trying to in my mind, as if it's written on a piece of paper
I noticed that ALL these memory issues began when I began having complex partial seizures & taking meds for them--ESPECIALLY Topamax/Topiramate (it is often nicknamed Dopamax). I now take Xcopri & Zonisamide. The memory issues ARE still there, but I feel they're less than when I was on that AED.
 
I will sometimes forget a persons name. I will remember their face but at times I can't remember their name. Nothing
like this happened until I had brain surgery and my surgeon had to remove the right hippocampus of my brain but then
I have also read that the drug vimpat that I take can cause memory loss also, plus I'm getting old. My neurosurgeon told
me to do a lot of math puzzles along with brain teasers to help better my short-term memory.
Wishing all of you only the best and May God Bless You!

Sue
 
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