Forgetting Names: Does Anyone Else Experience This?

As a fibro sufferer brain fog is a frustrating symptom. I have lost the ability to remember names and dates consistently also. It might be someone's name, name of songs I like, or years that I should remember. Sometimes I also can become very confused. As a fibro sufferer brain fog. I use lots of posted notes and note applications. I have read that basically managing all the pain signals is very taxing on the brain. So, as a result there is not as much available for processing other tasks or information.

I have a hard time with my memory. I'll say I remember this or that happened and everyone involved in my memory would say that it never happened. And then I can't remember things that did happen.. Like my sister going to the same school with me from 10 grade to graduation... I finally stopped saying I remember this or that. I wait till someone else mentions it..

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There’s different ways brain fog and dissociation present for me depending on a variety of circumstances. It can edge on the memory loss side but it also can stay firmly in the confusion camp for me.

Like with the two things the other person mentioned it sounds like it edges on the memory loss side of it

That sounds more like memory loss

I get this a lot, especially after anesthesia. It reminds me of how “pregnancy brain” felt. I like your explanation. Mine feels like going to a compute file and getting an “error:file not found” or like the file has been hidden 🙈

Huh. I’m sooo glad to know I’m not alone in experiencing this! It drives me crazy!

That’s how I get sometimes when I’m dissociating or dealing w brain fog. Especially when I’m dealing with both at the same time

Yeah I agree I don’t see it as memory loss it’s like the memory feels false even though it’s not

It's definitely not memory loss its question the reality of my memories and whether I've just imagined them somehow all of a sudden now that I'm being presented with having to externalize this information to another person or do said task I'm supposed to do. I question if the memory is real for some reason?

Wait is this not a common thing 😅 like I figured not everyone had it but I thought it was at least common

Guessing its something-something-"anxiety"-qualifier-something. Maybe schizo-something because it involves anxiety, memory loss or reality distortion, and a lack of a "reliable reality-checking" filter? That sounds really hard to deal with, I'm sorry 😮‍💨🫂

I don't really but my best guess is anxiety

They way you described this feeling is perfect! Any idea why it happens or how to manage it?

I get this with everything and anything. The best way I can describe it is like how most people feel talking to police or going through TSA. You know you've done nothing wrong but all of a sudden you're questioning whether you have hard drugs on you 😂 I do it with names, peoples details like job, fav food, etc. I do it with what I'm told to do at work, everything under the sun