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Does anyone else suffer from procastination and a bad memory? Is this a symptom of being a diabetic?
My partner is also going on to me for being untidy. Your thoughts please
 
I often forget so-called important dates, Feb 14th, Wedding anniversary, Dragon's birthday, and Dragonette's birthday - however, I never normally forget my birthday :) Selective Amnesia can often be encountered in people with diabetes particularly males.

As for being untidy - well apparently that's just a male trait :D

Regards, Tubs.
 
I do have a bad memory and it worries me at times. I can park my car and then totally forget where I've parked it. It almost reduced me to tears one day and in searching for it I must have walked past it once too. :roll: I'm hopeless at name remembering but I've read that is not uncommon and nothing to worry about.
I can remember things from my childhood quite clearly but I can walk into a room for something and then can't remember why I went in there. I'm only 51, so it's not something I'd expected at my age.
 
Choccy ....... Just go with it, there is a link with getting old. My aim is to do it very disgracefully :D

Whats your name again ??
Dave P
 
I am a great procrastinator [Lordy I can't remember how to spell it :lol: ] but I think it is something I have always been good at. I am off for Easter and I have brought various jobs home to do and told myself I must do them this weekend so then I can relax and all I have done since is sit on the pc and cleaned the house cos it is amazing how much you need to do housework when there is something important to be done!
I have noticed a huge difference in my memory since I was diagnesed but I think this is the distraction on the diagnosis [it goes round my head all day..."you're diabetic"] and consequently I think this causes me to not pay attention as I am wrapped up in myself.
Is the procrastination thing and the memory new to you or are you just noticing it more and trying to fit it into the illness? I have to say every little twinge I get I say it's the diabetes!!
I am with sixfoot and am going to grow old disgracefully :)
 
Choccy

I've solved th problem of parking the car. Set my sat nav to the car's location before I leave it then just follow the sat nav to get back to it. :lol: :lol:

Problems occur when I forget to set the sat nav befoere leaving the car and the sat nav thinks it is still parked in another town/city/country whre I last parked it. :shock: :shock:

Phil
 
**** it, what was I going to say? :?
 
Very Philosophical for this time of the morning ,Ken.
Procrastination is the thief of time.I think I've lost years because of it!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
sugarless sue said:
Very Philosophical for this time of the morning ,Ken.
Procrastination is the thief of time.I think I've lost years because of it!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Can I postpone judgement on this one - I'll have to think about it. :?

Ken :D
 
Em, maybe. Well, actually.....no, em maybe.No , Yes :lol:

Actually dont find this but I do find it hard to concentrate at times when sugars are moving and keep on track during conversation. Am known to drift of track halfway through a sentence

As for being tidy. Am not less tidy its more that I dont prioritise it anymore. Before Id come in from work, tidy up, make dinner etc.Now I have to inject, make dinner, eat and by the time Im finished all that I think hmm I should tidy up. Then I think, no - ****** it. Too tired/house wont fall down etc
 
When I was an undergrad approachingg finlas, my tutor asked me i f I were planning to contine in the academic field.
I asked if he thought that highly of my intellectual abilities, "No!, but you'd make a great absentminded professor" I haven't improved since I was 21
( He later told me I was quite bright)
 
Hi weepete,

If you are happy with the way you manage then fine, carry on. If it is annoying you that you cannot get to grips with organising things, then maybe this will help,
http://www.momscope.com/articles/procrastination.htm

The best joke about procrastination that I heard was, "SEIZE THE DAY TOMORROW".

Procrastination is not a sign of diabetes, wish it was as that would let me off the hook sometimes too.

Regards,
Catherine.
 
poor memory can sometimes be attributed to low thyroid thingy. There are other symptoms, too, but not sure about procrastination. Feeling cold and putting on weight are other symptoms. Low Thyroid thingy can happen with diabetes. Mention it to your doctor, and ask him/her to check. Easily done with a blood test.
 
Well, you have just described me! I have always been untidy, but procrastinating and memory loss is a new thig, which seemed to start when I had lots of hypos when I was pregnant. I am not sure whether it is "mummy brain" old age (I am 36) or hypo related though!
 
How many of you are on statins?

I recently dropped mine to see if things improved but I'm not sure if I can remember . . .

Seriously though, I have an excellent memory but appalling recall. I can meet a neighbour the other end of town and haven't a clue who they are except that I know them. Several hours later when I'm trying to remember who someone else is I remember who the previous person was.

My analysis is that for much of my life I needed to remember names, phone numbers and part numbers. That has filled up my memory banks with stuff I no longer need but can't delete. I can remember my PIN number from several bank account ago and blank out on the one I need to type in today. If only I could run a brain defrag I'd be cooking.

Masny "mental" problems have resolved with BG control, along with physical ones. This one hasn't. To think when I was young I used to pay good money for drugs to get into this state . . . <G>
 
sugar2 said:
Masny "mental" problems have resolved with BG control, along with physical ones. This one hasn't. To think when I was young I used to pay good money for drugs to get into this state . . .
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Jeez, Trink, you're beginning to reveal your age now. Do you date back to the swinging sixties/psyche seventies, or maybe to the Beat era (Jack Kerouac et al.? Or maybe the eighties - which were a good time but I can't remember exactly why ...
 
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