Memory Loss With Age: Not Necessarily Normal

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deepak Sharma 9:35AM April 21, 2013

Stephen Powelson memorized more than 14,000 lines of Homer's Illiad in Classic Greek. It took him more than ten years. He started when he was 60 years old.
To recite all he had memorized took about 15 hours. At one time, he travelled to different universities to recite some of the work (few people today want to listen to anything for fifteen hours straight). He would take "challenges" from his audiences: they would ask for a particular line, say line 2,268, and within two minutes he would recite that line, plus the preceding and succeeding lines, in Greek then give the translation.
He did this for fun.
Memory loss with age? Some of us just give it up or throw it away.

A B Sue 6:19PM April 27, 2010

I can see you are very concerned about your mental capacity. I am only 45 and have noticed similar issues with career, continuing educational requirments, checkbook, keeping the house in order, most of all my office and never ending paperwork. As a Financial Advisor it is extremely difficult to keep up with all the legal and market changes over the last few years.
After talking to my Dr. she suggested mild depression as a result of stress/hormones and really thought it was triggered by early menopause. I eliminated dairy, wheat, most refined sugars and processed foods from my diet. Added a soy milk, more whole grains, a multi vitamin designed for woman, extra B complex and lets not forget the exercise! Sounds to easy to be true, right? Well, in just over 90 days most of my symptoms have greatly improved or are gone completely.
I personally was against taking an anti depressant so this route seemed the best for me. My family history is not like yours, but my Mother has a long history of depression and has had noticable cognitive changes in the last 3 years since starting Effexor. She is 65 and was adopted so her family history ends there. I think her medication is adding to her problems but she will not takes the steps to have her Dr. change it. She has been tested for alzheimer's and was negative.
I don't know of a specialist in your area but you must find a Doctor that is more in tune with women and hormonal changes that occur as a result of aging. Not an OBGYN! This Doctor must also be up to speed on alternative treatments and nutrition. More Doctors around the country are embracing non traditional treatments to address the problems with the Baby-Boomers. We as a generation have been exposed to more toxins and stress than any other generation in history. Therefore we have different health problems and many of them are beginning much earlier than our parents or grandparents.

Kathy of MI 8:51AM March 25, 2010

My Dad was diagnosed with Early onset Alzheimer's at 57. He died at 64. I at 52 live alone and there's no one to really keep an eye on me. My sons are in the Army, Mom's in Hospice. I'm divorced. Something I do a lot that concerns me. I have total reversals on words I know how to type. I've had several typos in this email, but the spell checker reminds me.
I'm a Mortgage Loan officer and after many surgeries over the past 2 years I've gotten behind on the new changes in the Mortgage Industry as a result of the Foreclose Crisis. I had to take 30 hours of continued education to renew my license. It was taken online and instead of 30 hours it took me well over 60 hours. When we have Webinars online to train on the new rules in the industry. I just cannot grasp it. As a result, I'm embarrassed to originate new loans because I don't feel like I could do it incorrectly. I just don't know the new rules and regulations, no matter how hard I try to learn it. I'm on the verge of losing my home because I'm behind on bills. I get pain commission only. I was just wondering if it's been noticed by professionals, that inability to learn a job's changes when they've been n the same job for 10 years. I'm so fearful of making a mistake and loosing my license or being sued. just don't know if there's anything I can go that might help. I"m much more like my Dad than I am my Mom. Dad and I were both musically gifted and preferred learning something new on TV rather than watching Fiction or Dramas. My Dad and I both suffered from depression. We were both in sales. We went from having outgoing personalities to being rather quiet and dull. I isolate, because I'm afraid I sound stupid. I'm having a hard time filing out the information I need at the moment, bills,etc. can studying for the new programs. Filling out forms I've need ed to send to my Boss since Dec, and it's March. I cannot follow information well. I digress frequently from the topic.
My friends have told me that I tell the same stories to them at least 3 times in a conversation. Is there's someone in the Ft. Worth,TX area that I could see, I would appreciate a referral. Dad retired early from his job at 55, because paperwork wad too hard and he'd been doing the job 29 years. When he became ill and his old work buddies visited him, they said they knew he was becoming less capable well before he retired. If I do have the genetic marker for Alzheimer's is there something I can do to slow it down or alleviate it all together if I don't get some help, i won't be able to do my job. Thank you very much.

Rebecca Avery of TX 1:54PM March 23, 2010