Actually I did remember, but I considered it a side effect
of the medications, not the TM. A comment by JanH puts
this conclusion in doubt.
Background: I always had an incredibly good visual
memory. If I saw or used even once a telephone number, I
would remember it years later. My memory of what I
merely heard had always been mediocre.
Sometime [maybe two months] into my hospitalization,I
went into severe dementia. I could not concentrate, even
for a minute. I could not remember instructions just
given or events of yesterday. With a visitor I would start
a conversation “sounding like the old Al Ryder” and then
wander into nonsense. People who are fond of me were
worried that I might never recover. I, myself, was a
“What, me worry? kid.”
A change in my medications stopped the dementia but not
sufficiently the memory problem. Months later, today, my
memory is below par; if I go into a store for more than
one item, I remember only one. Maybe none. I have started
to rely more and more on written lists. [What list? LOL]
Betty says I’ve always been this way, but I don’t
remember having a problem.
Have others had a memorry loss?