Will my memory improve?

[LynneL]

I'm new--1 month or so--have a lousy memory--do you have experience with a memory improvement? Thanks.

[greenvelvetdragon]

I certainly did, as do most. Lack of sleep takes everything out of you, concentration, energy and memory. It will get better over time, just keep hanging in there, stay with your therapy. welcome to this wonderful group. there are so many great people here who share their experiences and their knowledge. Its been a great source of comfort and advice for me, as I am sure you will find as well.

all the best

GVD

[LinkC]

The consensus seems to be that you will remember things happening NOW better. And memories of the distant past will be clearer.

However, memories from while you weren't sleeping well are permanently lost. Your brain assimilates short-term memory into long-term while you sleep. (Think of is as saving your data from active memory to the hard drive. If you don't save your work, you lose it.) Poor sleep, poor assimilation.

I remember many things from 4 or 5 yrs ago. But we took a trip last Sept*, and I don't remember the details at all. My wife will tell me about things we did, restaurants, the condo we stayed in, etc. They sound vaguely familiar...more like something I saw on TV rather than personal experience. I doubt that will ever come back.

*I began CPAP in October.

See this topic for more info: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=39081&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

BTW--My wife's name is Lynne (with an "e") too.

[roster]

I'm new--1 month or so--have a lousy memory--do you have experience with a memory improvement? Thanks.

I can't remember what my memory was like before CPAP.

[stacia123]

LOL rooster, you cheeky chicken

I think it's likely your memory will improve. My memory has improved since I've been on CPAP for nearly 5 months. About 2 months into using the CPAP I had this crazy period where every morning I woke up with a different '80s song stuck in my head, songs I hadn't heard for years and barely remembered. That was kind of freaky. Only lasted about 10 days.

Even now I can tell that I'm still recovering, and I suspect I will be for a very long time. On days where I don't sleep enough I still have what I call noun trouble, that is I have trouble remembering the names of things while I'm talking.

[MoneyGal]

I'm with LinkC. I study tae kwon do and, while I was able to grade for my belts while I had undiagnosed OSA, I had to re-learn the whole form each time (the forms are progressive; each belt level adds another series of moves to the one before).

I am grading for another belt at the end of this month and my experience of learning the forms is very different this time (I'm about six weeks into treatment). My experience is that I can actually learn and remember, not do the moves in a fog and hope that the others grading at the same time will pull me through as I parrot their moves a millisecond behind them.

[Billy6]

Maybe its best if you dont remember what your 401-K, your investments, and your savings looked like before. And now the moron has thrown $2 trillion in debt on top of that.

[roster]

Maybe its best if you dont remember what your 401-K, your investments, and your savings looked like before. ........

[twostepper]

ROOSTER, I JUST LOVE YOUR ICON, AND HAVE NAMED IT (THE BARNYARD STRUT) , HAPPY HOSING ,TWO STEPPER

[roster]

ROOSTER, I JUST LOVE YOUR ICON, AND HAVE NAMED IT (THE BARNYARD STRUT) , HAPPY HOSING ,TWO STEPPER

Note since Obama won, you can see which direction I am being forced to walk.

[SharkBait]

I'm new--1 month or so--have a lousy memory--do you have experience with a memory improvement? Thanks.

I can only tell you from personal experience that... I'm sorry, what's the question?

[LinkC]

Rooster has so many things he'd like to forget, he developed OSA just to facilitate that!

[Babette]

Dammit Sharkbait, I was gonna say that!

In all seriousness, here's my experience. I don't notice a sudden AHA! sense of difference. But all of a sudden, I am making connections and solving problems at work that I haven't before. Suddenly I find myself forwarding emails to conferences that people should be attending, and they attend, and they say 'THANK YOU! This was so helpful!' and I feel like "well shoot, that conference happens every year. Why didn't I tell them about it 5 years ago?

'Cause I was sleep deprived, and it just never occurred to me before.

Stuff like that happens all the time.

Suddenly, I'm making my big monthly financial deadline ON TIME. I've never been on time with my claims. I'm always a few weeks late. And I've now got two perfect months in a row. And tomorrow I plan to make that three months in a row. Why? I can't figure it out. I've asked my coworker. She says "You're just so organized about it now." Thankfully they haven't fired me for this before...

Some things are happening easier and smoother. Not everything is peaches and cream. I'm still fat. I still have periods of stress-related insomnia when I have to dope myself up with Benadryl to sleep and yet still wake up at 3 am to watch TV (Jennifer Jones in "The Story of Bernadette" this AM).

But I do think my brain is clicking better on certain cylinders. Hoping it continues to improve.

What was the question again?
Babs

[DreamStalker]

I remember once when I was a little kid, long before CPAP, I used to think that it would be nice to be all growed up. Now that I'm grown up, uhhhh ... what was the question again?

[roster]

......... and they say 'THANK YOU! This was so helpful!' ..............

At the company where I worked for over three decades, you never heard that, unless you were about to get laid off and everyone knew it but you.