I think I am having an inreasing cognitive decline in my condition. I having a harder time processing things such as tasks from work. Like I am not picking up what people are saying. Example muy boss asked me over three times to do something and I just couldn’t get it. I just wasn’t processing it.
So my question is what are your symptoms. Maybe then I can see if I am experiencing more. I just feel like i am in a decline of shorts and just want to reach out.
Reading and understanding is difficult. Like I read this post a few minutes ago but didn’t get anything out of it. Now I looked back at it and I can relate. It’s mostly reading for me. Why do people write in such fancy complicated language. They should just make it to understand.
Not much common sense. Executive functioning is not good,especially organising and planning.
I don’t have the concentration to read a book. Or drive.
I think my cognitive symptoms amplify the fact im not a audio learner. People talk at a normal pace about normal things and i usually dont follow. If they laugh i laugh to get through it sort of things. The worst are funny stories, i never get the joke or understand the conversational detours. I only do ok on here because im a visual learner and can keep track of everything easier, everything moves slower.
I don’t have the focus, concentration.
I’m not able to express myself like I’d like to.
I’m also very forgetful.
Can’t read anymore. 
Get lost or forget where I’m going.
Have a hard time holding a conversation because I forget words and its embarrassing every time I talk it’s like a very bad game of charades. Mostly if I’m asked a question I just mumble something mostly incoherent so it ends. I lose my glasses at least once a day and after searching they are usually on my face. I forget people’s names even family members. I miss appointments and sometimes show up a week early.
I find that when you stimulate acetylcholine in the brain, your cognition improves.
Choline is released through nicotine and can be found in foods such as eggs, for example.
There are also two supplements named Alpha GPC and CDP Choline which stimulate choline in the brain. It also helps with sensory gating .
I use 300mg of Alpha GPC x2 and 1mg Nicotine lozenge x3 per day. I find my cognition to be minimal, if not, good.
My cognition is such that I easily forget things. Like appointments. Regular appointments too. Like today for instance. I have a regular meeting that I go to every Wednesday afternoon and it just slipped past my memory today. That kind of thing happens to me all the time.
Oh my gosh, you got it bad.
To be honest, I really don’t know. I didn’t think I had any cognitive symptoms until my mom told me I did. I remember being much sharper, before getting sick, but I didn’t notice much cognitive decline until after I started taking AP’s. I can’t really think of specifics except I have trouble with memory and comprehension of both spoken and written word.
My memory is like 50 first dates. I do something memorable one day and the next day it’s like it never happened. My mind is sort of blank and I can’t think very well. Sometimes I have a hard time seeing the big picture, especially in arguments. But on the bright side the Summer weather is making me feel that Hawai’i is really pretty and I’m really happy with where I live.
I know I’m at the early stages of dementia
Did a doctor tell you that? Is it from schizophrenia? You’re a member of one of the first generations of schizophrenics to consistently reach old age. No one knows what happens now.
I’ve had some testing but will be getting more soon.
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