Memory

[graceface]

My memory whats happening to it??

First a very funny thing happened. I was looking through members and stumbled upon another grace face except spelt graceyface so i clicked on her to check her out and up pops a picture of meeee. I created a profile 4 years ago wrote a few things and completely forgot abut it!!!

Just wondering how much peoples memories are effected by there epilepsy... right now i don't take any meds but seems the more seizures i have the more my memory gets weaker. a lot of stuff i just completely don't remember. some things doesn't really matter like the above which is kinda funny but more recently some more concerning. For example, my housemate had a friend come over, i met her and ended up spending the night chatting having a really in depth personal conversation, this was in january. she had to leave a week later to go to europe, she's over there now. I got an email a few days ago from a stranger saying hey how you doing, i haven't forgotten our great chat, hope your really well, she brought up some personal things we discussed and said she hoped i was doing ok. I was shocked that someone could email me say the things she said nd i have no idea who they were. luckily she mentioned my housemate so i went on Facebook checked my housemates friends list and sussed her out. soon as i saw her face a strong air of familiarity arose, like she was someone i really knew, that feeling was there but then nothing else, i dot remember anything. sigh... it scares me, what is my epilepsy doing to my brain?

anyone else experiencing anything like this?

 

[Silat]

I do this kind of thing all of the time... :?
Exactly as you described it as well. The not knowing, but seeing a face and getting a sense of them being familiar, but no memories attached to it.

 

[Nakamova]

If your seizures happen in the part of the brain where memories are stored and encoded (temporal lobes, near the hippocampus/amygdala), then memory can be affected.

Some of the anti-seizure meds can also mess with memory. Even though my seizures are well-controlled (and not the temporal lobe variety), I've found my ability to remember people I've met to be especially weak lately. I suspect that aging and the meds play a role in my case.

 

[Cint]

Grace,

As Nak said, if your seizure start in the hippocampus area (temporal lobes), then your memory will be effected. I have a damaged hippocampus in my left temporal lobe and definitely have a difficult time remembering names, dates, times, etc. I keep things written on my calendar(s) at home and in my purse and have to repeat things over and over in my head/write them down to help myself remember them.

Back in the 90's, I was heavily medicated on 3 AED's and don't remember a lot of things about raising my own two children. They have to remind me of things that happened back then. How sad is that?!