Mild cognitive impairment

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I have just realised I have repeated myself and recalled an epilepsy consultant saying I had mild cognitive symptoms arising from the epilepsy and an operation on my head I had years ago. The epilepsy is a side effect of having a stroke. I remember panicking about this and I have got a booklet from the alzeimers society on mild cognitive impairment or MCI. I am 75 and assume it is age related What have others experienced?

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I have checked the letter I had. The mild cognitive symptoms were due to previous radiotherapy and surgery and valproate medication. Doctors try to heal one thing and give you another! Who said life is terminal!

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I think we all get a little cognitive impairment as we age. I do some brain training to try & help. You can get brain training apps or you can just do things like crosswords, puzzles, sudokus etc to help.

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I checked in my MCI leaflet and saw stroke is one of the examples of who gets it. Hence I am approaching this group. Some of the things I’ve got are unrelated. i am on a mental health group with Mind for example. Apologies if I’ve posted on this before.

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Thank you for your post. I get the stroke magazine which always has a word search which I enjoy doing. I used to be quite high powered and got an MSc. I try to read some of the books from that research but can’t concentrate on those. I need to have more modest ambitions.

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I think there are ways to manage MCI and it doesn’t necessarily lead to dementia but staying mentally active is beneficial especially if you have hobbies that augment this. Posting on the forum is good because it is a means of being social. I daily train my associative memory and I am to understand that this is also worthwhile for managing MCI.

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What is associative memory Rups? I agree that posting on here is good. MCI doesn’t lead to dementia if you keep going. Thank you for posting.

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Here is a better summary of it than I could possibly give …

“Techniques for Associative Memory Improvement

  • Visualization & Imagery: Creating mental pictures that link items together (e.g., imagining a giant apple on a friend’s head to remember they like apples).

  • Method of Loci (Memory Palace): Associating items to be remembered with specific, familiar locations in a mental map, such as rooms in your home.

  • Storytelling/Sentence Mnemonics: Creating a story or sentence that connects to-be-remembered items, making them more memorable.

  • Keyword Method: Associating new, unfamiliar information with a keyword that sounds similar or reminds you of the information.

  • Chunking: Grouping information into smaller, related patterns (e.g., breaking down a long number).

  • Music-Based Training (AMMT): Associative Mood and Memory Training (AMMT) uses music to create a “mood-congruent state” to facilitate the retrieval of long-term autobiographical memories.”

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Thank you. several of those were on a OU introductory course to psychology I did

I was an OU addict in a past life! I also remember learning the Russian word for work Rabotutch by associating it with the word Rabbit Hutch. It takes me back! I knew what it was all the time!

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I find that post stroke, associative memory exercises have been invaluable for me, to such a degree that close friends ask me to remember things for them :joy:

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Wow. Thats good. I also have some booklets of a super memory course my mum had.

That could be good to dig out.

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I found this to be a great helper in my recovery. It was a free download at the time. I did ask the Dr and consultant at the time of stroke if these sort of games were good. Reply was yes but not to often. So I do a little each day

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This happens more often than we realise.

A bit of brain training never harmed anybody. Physical activity also never harmed anybody (at least not that I know of).

Thanksfully, there are still plenty of freebies avaiable :slight_smile:

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Do you find that you don’t remember the things you would rather forget? Or that are connected to the things you would rather forget. I’m currently trying to locate 3 lost items I had ordered from suppliers who , it turns out use Evri courier company. Then when another parcel WAS delivered by Yodel today I forgot ai had it, and started chasing that one up too! But they are all probably tagged in my mind as ‘likely to cause big stress’. That’s my theory anyway….

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Aye, the brain defaults to negative memories as a defence mechanism. Our mammalian brain doesn’t always work in harmony with our lizard brain. Shall I remember to do the washing up because the last time I remembered it was such a joy to do or shall I remember to do the washing up because last time the sink was full of dirty dishes?

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Hello Val - I am not sure if you have a memory problem or if there is a problem with Evri.
I am sorry to say, I have had problems with this company who deliver some of the goods we order from various suppliers. On more than one occasion they have for reasons only known to them, repackaged goods sent to their warehouse by the supplier I ordered the goods from. In repackaging they “lost” half the ordered items and I received a “half delivery” but which they recorded as full. First time this happened I was focused on the shambolic repackaging and didn’t even realised half the order was missing.

Last week, another half order and it took me a while to realise this was not a complete shipment - again they had repackaged and it was shambolic. I complained to the supplier and they asked me to send then “evidence” which at first annoyed me as I explained I had already thrown away the packaging and the bin men had been and emptied the bin. Anyway, they said send pictures of the ordered items which I did and they agreed that it was a half order and that Evri were responsible.

Yesterday Evri delivered the replacement half order.

So it might not be you - it just might be Evri. I am not at all impressed with them.

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Absolutely, @manji, they are a company that is known for underpaying the couriers who work for them. So the couriers take short cuts, sometimes this involves the parcels going missing and it seems you only got half your parcel. I am glad you got the other part if your parcel eventually . I wonder how many people have the energy to follow up though?

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I think all the answers may be found in this program …

BBC Panorama“Evri: Where’s my parcel?”

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Deliveries cause me all manner of anxiety, from getting to the door on time, having magpies pinch parcels from the porch, parcels being delayed, parcels going missing, receiving a different item than ordered, having to chase up damaged or missing goods. It’s a prickly result of the convenience of being able to, in a few clicks, order something online.

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Yes, I don’t have magpies pinching parcels but theyw certainly either deliver when I am out or don’t deliver at all but send emails to say they have.
The supplier ( major supermarket) of a recent one told me the email is sent whenever the item leaves their warehouse, I think its a kind of wishful thinking that the item may arrive, perhaps ( or perhaps it won’t). They have sent out a replacement but I am now told its been delayed…
It seems a small worry to have but it is not terribly therapeutic and people don’t usually order an item for the fun of it.

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