Memory loss affecting speech, suspected vascular dementia?!

[Annalise]

Hey all my fellow sugar cravers out there!

I've been diagnosed with diabetes since the young age of 12, and like the pig headed child I was I did not take the condition seriously at all. Complications were unknown to me and to be honest I think I blocked them out in denial, this denial then unfortunately turned into habit, a habit that I've only now shamefully come to my realisation to break.

I'm only 20 and I know I'm ridiculously young but I fear I have genuinely developed vascular dementia. I have been diagnosed with a form of anxiety; a type that not even doctors can actually make sense of, being back at uni I've been in between my GPs and its hard to articulate myself given my current symptoms. I spent 3 months almost in an english lingual isolation in Spain over summer and have now returned and feel like I've lost all of my english. I'ts absolutely bizzare but i don't believe a form of anxiety can completely stop my whole logical thinking in that I can't even think of a way to compose a reply in a text message, and it would probably be more interesting having a conversation with a brick wall at the moment with responsive reflexes, plus I feel like I'm losing my intellectual knowledge behind the meanings of relatively simple words and pronunciation on random words is off, and I putting words in the wrong context out of the stress of being able to remember or select the right word!

Just wondering if anyone could help on my matter, just because I'm too scared to tell anyone my new googled diagnosis or to talk to my GP because they'll just dismiss it under the anxiety talking.

Any reply would be greatly appreciated

 

[carraway]

Re: Memory loss affecting speech, suspected vascular dementi

I am not medically qualified but my father had suspected vascular dementia, so I know a little.

I also know that stress ( and therefore probably anxiety) can cause a 'brain fog'
so it's hard to get your words out. Ask any parent with a few young children to try to complete a coherent sentence with them all talking at once!

The message you typed was articulate and to the point. True vascular dementia would mean you could not do that.

If you are seriously worried then see a GP and get a referral

But I think you should focus on something else, something positive


Good luck!
Cara

 

[phoenix]

Re: Memory loss affecting speech, suspected vascular dementi

I also live in a different country. I speak and read English and watch English TV every day. When I return to the UK, I find that sometimes the French words come to mind rather than the English ones . This is especially true for words I use a lot, I'm likely to say 'pardon' or 'désolé' rather than 'sorry' or 'de rien' rather than 'you're welcome' or 'no problem'. If encountered nothing but French every day, I'm sure it would be even more so.

Both anxiety and several far more common medical problems can also cause 'brain fog' . It maybe that your doc has already investigated possibilities but I certainly had brain fog before being diagnosed with hypothyroid. I was conscious of losing words, I knew the word I wanted to say but couldn't retrieve. I often started a sentence and then 'forgot' what I was trying to say. I also became lethargic and depressed and didn't want to go out. After a few months on thyroxine, all is now fine.
Obviously this is personal and just an example to show that this type of symptom is caused by other things.

Go and talk to your doctor, he/she should both be able to reassure you