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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you know that you are searching for words, but can’t find them, you don’t have dementia. You may have other things. But if you had dementia, you wouldn’t know that there was a word you were searching for. [/quote]

OP here.  I watched my mother die from dementia.  She died at age 73.  I remember vividly her inability to recall words and how scared and frustrated it would make her.  She certainly knew it was her brain failing her, and it was definitely one of the symptoms of her dementia.

Thanks to all who wrote here,  I literally forgot that I posted last night, so I’m just remembering to come back now.

I have had lots of blood panels done and nothing stands out that screams “thyroid”, even though I do have lots of other symptoms of low thyroid.  My PCP has just blown me off and said I am stressed.  Which, sure, I am.  Enormously.  But I’ve been stressed for a long time and never before failed to think of the word, “spatula” or the title “Pride and Prejudice.” Which is my favorite book.  I sometimes will stand still and intensely concentrate and still fail to recall the right word.

Like the teacher above, I often say things that are “adjacent” to what I really mean to say.  I can’t think of a good example now but it would be akin to saying, “put your pencils down and fold your paper” but instead I’ll say “Fold your pencils down and hold your paper.”  This happens dozens of times a day.

My PCP literally said, “you should see a neurologist” but did not have one to recommend , so screaming into the wind here in hope for a recommendation.  [/quote]

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