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71. yes, now why did i come in here again?
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  -Any Other 40+ Experience This? Robert Murphy  Feb-11-09 06:41 PM   #0 
  - It's called "sometimers disease"  Hoopla Phil   Feb-11-09 06:42 PM   #1 
  - I can't relate. I know that the perfect bon mot is always a variant of "fuck"  JVS   Feb-11-09 06:43 PM   #2 
  - I'm glad  12string   Feb-11-09 10:43 PM   #86 
  - I wouldn't worry about it, Robert. I'm about to turn 50 and...  Atman   Feb-11-09 06:44 PM   #3 
  - LOL!! (N/T)  Robert Murphy   Feb-11-09 06:45 PM   #6 
  - What's really fun is when you forget the names of things....like the  Saphire   Feb-12-09 06:34 AM   #97 
  - Wait till you find your car keys in the fridge  eleny   Feb-11-09 06:45 PM   #4 
  - i found the tickets  DesertFlower   Feb-11-09 06:51 PM   #17 
  - Or put the milk away in the dish cabinet...  JerseygirlCT   Feb-11-09 06:57 PM   #30 
  - Nothing wrong with that.  Blue_In_AK   Feb-11-09 06:45 PM   #5 
  - Yeh, takes longer to get it from the hard drive to the desk top  eleny   Feb-11-09 06:46 PM   #7 
  - Halfheimer's. . .  Journeyman   Feb-11-09 06:46 PM   #8 
  - You people kill me....  Robert Murphy   Feb-11-09 06:49 PM   #12 
  - I'm 10 yrs younger and it happens to me all the time  Fleshdancer   Feb-11-09 06:48 PM   #9 
  - I had a math professor who once said "I had a thought but it died of loneliness."  CTyankee   Feb-12-09 02:31 PM   #107 
     - I wanna use that one...  joeunderdog   Feb-12-09 02:34 PM   #108 
  - It started a few years prior to age 40 with my first pregnancy. Could not remember a thing.  TBF   Feb-11-09 06:48 PM   #10 
  - I had the same experience when I was pregnant  netania99   Feb-11-09 07:23 PM   #44 
  - Nothing to worry about...  virgdem   Feb-11-09 06:48 PM   #11 
  - Yea. I had that one thing happen at that one place that one time  yodoobo   Feb-11-09 06:49 PM   #13 
  - i'm 67. i came down with  DesertFlower   Feb-11-09 06:49 PM   #14 
  - 41 isn't old ya goof!  cherish44   Feb-11-09 06:50 PM   #15 
  - I'm Wid YA!!!!  Robert Murphy   Feb-11-09 06:51 PM   #18 
  - There is a scientific term for that ...CRS  Winterblues   Feb-11-09 06:50 PM   #16 
  - Defintely not Alzhiemers  Boomerang Diddle   Feb-11-09 06:51 PM   #19 
  - No, it's just a full brain.  Stellabella   Feb-11-09 06:52 PM   #20 
  - Ah Robert, welcome to my world.. The word is there, I know it so then  monmouth   Feb-11-09 06:52 PM   #21 
  - Happened to you at 20 as well.  HeresyLives   Feb-11-09 06:52 PM   #22 
  - You're absolutely..... ummm... wait a minute....  Canuckistanian   Feb-11-09 06:53 PM   #23 
  - Happens all the time for me.....  Tripper11   Feb-11-09 06:54 PM   #24 
  - The dreaded chemo brain!  latebloomer   Feb-11-09 07:27 PM   #47 
  - chemo knocked me for a loop...  LiberalHeart   Feb-11-09 10:56 PM   #89 
  - well....  Neecy   Feb-11-09 06:54 PM   #25 
  - If women go through "menopause", what do men go through?  baldguy   Feb-11-09 09:27 PM   #83 
  - Buck up there. It's going to get worse.  Betsy Ross   Feb-11-09 06:54 PM   #26 
  - Yeah, the phrase "It was on the tip of my tongue" is one of my most often-used phrases these days.  KansDem   Feb-11-09 06:54 PM   #27 
  - Just age, I think  JerseygirlCT   Feb-11-09 06:56 PM   #28 
  - topamax...  CitizenPatriot   Feb-11-09 07:21 PM   #43 
     - That was 6 awful weeks for me  JerseygirlCT   Feb-11-09 07:32 PM   #49 
        - I know!  CitizenPatriot   Feb-11-09 07:36 PM   #55 
  - I forget why I'm repling to you, but it seems normal to me...  TheCowsCameHome   Feb-11-09 06:57 PM   #29 
  - Because...  Robert Murphy   Feb-11-09 07:01 PM   #33 
     - Oh great, now I'm hearing voices.............  TheCowsCameHome   Feb-11-09 07:09 PM   #39 
  - As a fellow writer, I have to pass on a George Clooney paraphrase that might calm you:  Mike 03   Feb-11-09 06:58 PM   #31 
  - All the time.  geckosfeet   Feb-11-09 06:59 PM   #32 
  - Have you had the lovely experience yet  cordelia   Feb-11-09 07:01 PM   #34 
  - Happens all the time  latebloomer   Feb-11-09 07:33 PM   #50 
  - I wrote my post before reading yours. I think it's #52, but I forget.  Cerridwen   Feb-11-09 07:36 PM   #56 
     - Ha ha!  latebloomer   Feb-11-09 08:27 PM   #69 
        - :D  Cerridwen   Feb-11-09 08:40 PM   #75 
  - I've done that since I was about 10.  Withywindle   Feb-11-09 07:53 PM   #62 
  - what's worse is going upstairs  Pakhet   Feb-12-09 09:38 AM   #104 
  - No - unlikely - sounds normal  stray cat   Feb-11-09 07:02 PM   #35 
  - When this happened to me in my 20's  marybourg   Feb-11-09 07:02 PM   #36 
  - You're going through male pre-menopause  Holly_Hobby   Feb-11-09 07:03 PM   #37 
  - Mentalpause  Sisaruus   Feb-11-09 07:40 PM   #58 
  - I don't know Robert-That happens to me all the time.  Kajsa   Feb-11-09 07:03 PM   #38 
  - We joke about playing "find that noun"  DBoon   Feb-11-09 07:11 PM   #40 
  - check your B12 levels . . . I had developed pernicious anemia and thought I had lost my mind (42)  zazen   Feb-11-09 07:14 PM   #41 
  - I had the very same thing happen  w8liftinglady   Feb-11-09 08:30 PM   #72 
     - are you still on them? (you could e-mail me if you want) n/t  zazen   Feb-12-09 01:04 PM   #105 
  - No, hardly the onset of Alzheimer's  sarge43   Feb-11-09 07:20 PM   #42 
  - Ha! Welcome to the second half of your life.  TexasObserver   Feb-11-09 07:26 PM   #45 
  - CRS Disease - Can't Remember Shit!  Red State Rebel   Feb-11-09 07:27 PM   #46 
  - ???? happens  hay rick   Feb-11-09 07:31 PM   #48 
  - Stress can cause havoc with your memory as well.  Cerridwen   Feb-11-09 07:34 PM   #51 
  - it happens to me, I'm 44 and my Dad has Alzheimer's  eShirl   Feb-11-09 07:35 PM   #52 
  - Wait.  Lugnut   Feb-11-09 07:35 PM   #53 
  - . . . eh? . . . say what . . .?  ConcernedCanuk   Feb-11-09 07:35 PM   #54 
  - Dude - Wait til 60. That's when the warranty runs out.  GoneOffShore   Feb-11-09 07:39 PM   #57 
  - I am a writer and editor and this happens to me all the time. My brain switched from memory  McCamy Taylor   Feb-11-09 07:44 PM   #59 
  - "The wisdom of the staircase" -- because you always remember on the way down the exit stairs. nt  eppur_se_muova   Feb-11-09 07:47 PM   #60 
  - Sounds like you too suffer from the dreaded CRS Syndrome  SoCalDem   Feb-11-09 07:48 PM   #61 
  - That kitty pic. is so darn cute!  Kajsa   Feb-12-09 08:38 AM   #101 
  - standard response  Coexist   Feb-11-09 07:57 PM   #63 
  - I heard that Omega 3 helps with that. n/t  OhioChick   Feb-11-09 08:00 PM   #64 
  - Yes.  LWolf   Feb-11-09 08:03 PM   #65 
  - I am not an "old fuck".  troubleinwinter   Feb-11-09 08:09 PM   #66 
  - Yup, it happens to me and I'm 44.  liberalhistorian   Feb-11-09 08:10 PM   #67 
  - And remembering how many people past 40 didn't have to use Computers 24/7  KoKo   Feb-11-09 08:32 PM   #73 
  - The up side is you'll start remembering the most trivial shit from 30+ years ago.  Kip Humphrey   Feb-11-09 08:13 PM   #68 
  - Oh yes!  emilyg   Feb-11-09 08:32 PM   #74 
     - I can't remember my phone number, emilyg!  Mnemosyne    Feb-11-09 08:50 PM   #77 
  - The usual term is "Tip of the Brain" effect or phenomenon  slackmaster   Feb-11-09 08:29 PM   #70 
  - yes, now why did i come in here again?  AlCzervik   Feb-11-09 08:29 PM   #71 
  - And that's really bad when it's the  Mnemosyne    Feb-11-09 08:51 PM   #78 
  - That's the one. That is so crazy making. n/t  sarge43   Feb-11-09 09:17 PM   #80 
  - What?  POAS   Feb-11-09 08:40 PM   #76 
  - I was about 42 when I first noticed the same thing....apparently  pipi_k   Feb-11-09 09:14 PM   #79 
  - as common as common can be  Stinky The Clown   Feb-11-09 09:20 PM   #81 
  - I just made a call to get my furnace looked at.  baldguy   Feb-11-09 09:23 PM   #82 
  - Some of it might be age, but I'm willing to bet that it has more to do  janx   Feb-11-09 09:40 PM   #84 
  - 20+ experiencing this nt  Incitatus   Feb-11-09 09:41 PM   #85 
  - It happens if you're stressed out  Bryn   Feb-11-09 10:49 PM   #87 
  - It's just a normal part of aging  Missy Vixen   Feb-11-09 10:51 PM   #88 
  - If it will make you feel better  DFW   Feb-11-09 11:12 PM   #90 
  - Does anyone know where the sam hell my glasses are?  SmileyRose   Feb-11-09 11:23 PM   #91 
  - Top of your head? That's  emilyg   Feb-11-09 11:42 PM   #93 
  - I was just thinking recently that while I have a fairly expansive vocabulary:  Hello_Kitty   Feb-11-09 11:42 PM   #92 
  - Contrary to a previous post, I don't find this thread demeaning in the slightest....  LiveLiberally   Feb-11-09 11:45 PM   #94 
  - happens to everyone, even kids at age 8.  NuttyFluffers   Feb-12-09 01:28 AM   #95 
  - OMG I can't believe you posted this right now  canetoad   Feb-12-09 01:36 AM   #96 
  - I was going to post something really smart here....  PassingFair   Feb-12-09 06:36 AM   #98 
  - I hope it isn't or I'm in trouble.  mmonk   Feb-12-09 06:37 AM   #99 
  - What can someone do to help combat it via nutrition?  HuckleB   Feb-13-09 04:28 PM   #111 
  - Unlikely it's Alzheimer's. More likely the generic dim bulbiness  Vinca   Feb-12-09 06:42 AM   #100 
  - No, I have always  ellie   Feb-12-09 08:39 AM   #102 
  - Go back to school.  HuckleB   Feb-12-09 08:51 AM   #103 
  - Nah. I just turned 58, and I'm just as mentally agile as I was at 20!  Buns_of_Fire   Feb-12-09 02:24 PM   #106 
  - Helen Thomas, 88, seems to do OK "speaking" and questioning presidents.  troubleinwinter   Feb-12-09 05:08 PM   #109 
  - I don't think anyone is saying that we all start doddering on  sarge43   Feb-12-09 08:04 PM   #110 
  - This thread makes me feel better about my drinking.  ieoeja   Feb-13-09 04:32 PM   #112 
  - I am 29 and that happens to me all the time  RadicalTexan   Feb-13-09 04:35 PM   #113 
  - I couldn't remember  Politicalboi   Feb-13-09 04:52 PM   #114 
 

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