Do you have Senior Moments?

Last week I apologized to our church Deacon because I forgot to remove the Lector book after the second reading. He said not to worry about it. Once he said the first line of the Hail Mary and then drew a blank. He hoped someone would pick up the rest. I said I had forgotten my phone number that week. He said he just called them senior moments. I, at 44, said, "You're not calling it a senior moment with me, are you?" His reponse: "No, you're just practicing." I thought that was a great response. I'm just practicing.

So you called those senior moments! I have it since I was in my twenties. Sometimes my ex-colleagues got frustrated with me but I really did not do them on purpose. The situation got worse when I was expecting and even worse after giving birth and I put the blame on my hormonal changes. I don't find these senior moments a nuisance now that I'm a homemaker. But there's one thing I have to remember and that is to turn off the stove before leaving the house and to remember that I've already turned it off before I run back home to check.

Oh yes I do have many of those seniors moments but I do not blame my age for it, just in case someone takes me seriously. Instead I blame either my husband or my son, because it must be their fault. Don't know why it is their fault but know that it definately is because I cannot think of any other reason for having them. LOL

lol! it happened to me a lot of times, too! so don't worry, you're not alone. and i'm not even 40 yet, huh? sometimes, i start opening the refrigerator to get something and then i can't remember what it is i wanted. so i had to go back to the place where i was before i went to the ref. sometimes, it helps me remember but most of the time, the thought is lost. let's just laugh about these incidents, okay? no big deal really!

As I was reading your post I was thinking of myself and how I too must be a victim of 'Senior Moments'. My teenage daughter seen me laughing and she asked why, and I told her about your post, she said she suffers from those moments also and she felt that it's not just a senior malady. LOL...great post...I think I will always remember that term whenever I am in the throws of one of those moments, I know I will never feel bad about it again, as a matter of fact I know it will bring a smile to my face...SS

I do have senior moments and have had them even when I was younger. The exact same things have happened to me too. I was told one time that age had nothing to do with it, that it's because you have so much to do that you are constantly thinking about things that need to be done that you forget what you're suppose to be doing. that made me feel better...I though something may be wrong with me!

Yep, get lots of them, what were we talkin about by the way? I started getting them shortly after my oldest son was born when I was 27 and he's 7 now, it's never got any better. I prefer to call them Mummy moments and I think they happen because I have so many things to think about. It is funny,isn't it!

Oh so that's what you call it...and here all these years I was claiming early onset Alzheimers...you get it from your kids you know...it is a self defense mechanism they exude so you forget all the nasty things they did last week, in hopes they'll get something extra (like the car in the case of teens) this week.

Yea, I have them too. But allow me to burst your bubble. It really starts going down hill at 50!

Yes I do. Not so bad now that I drink my soy milk daily. I have heard on the news programs that with our really busy lives now we all tend to forget things. So many numbers, appointment and things to over fill our days it is no wonder that things get off track. Keep a notepad on you and you could job things down and cross things off it it helps you get more focuses and important things done!! Good luck!!

Yes, I have senior moments all the time. Somebody else doesn't even have to talk to me. Between rooms, I will think about other things I have to do, and will come back having done something that I hadn't intended in the first place. Or, I'll get to the other room and just stand there wondering why I'm there! ha ha ha. It doesn't worry me, I think it's quite funny, and things will get done eventually. I've sometimes gone to another room three times before I've remembered what I went for in the first place, because something else appears before me to be done. lol

I just turned 27 and I have seniot moments all the time. I hear people say that it gets worse as you get older and that scares me. I am taking ginko and I don't care what studies say. It helps me a lot and the moment forget to take it it gets worse. I sometimes feel like such an air head with all the things I forget to do. Senior Moment are hard to accept when you are so young. I think they occur because we have to much going on in our heads maybe if we could just slow down our thought processes that would help to.

Well, Mom, I don't think it's just a senior moment. Maybe I got this from you genetically, but I do that all the time. My short term memory is so short... what were we talking about?

What, it took you till age 40 before you started having those "Senior Moments?" I'm not sure, but someone who shall remain nameless has had them all her life. When I was little I had "Premie moments" it sounded like this "But Mom, I forgot I had a cookie, can I have another? In grade school it went like this: "But Mom, I forgot to clean my room." And when I was in highschool it sounded like this: "I know I was supposed to call home- I forgot." When I was in college I wandered down to the grill one morning and sat and waited for my friends. And waited. Finally one of them came into the grill and said "Where were you?" I said "I've been right here- where have you been?" My friend said "I've been taking the final exam in English class." Well! Imagine how embarrassed I was when I had to walk into the professor's office and tell her I didn't show up for the exam because I forgot! It didn't go over that well, I can tell you that, and get this- it was the final exam of my entire college experience. Luckily she let me take another one. I haven't forgotten that I forgot to show up for that test, I can tell you that. I don't know if it's only me, but I tend to forget more when I am stressed out. When I have too much coming at me, well the brain just seems to freeze. All in all, I manage to navigate my way through the day. Some days I get to where I'm supposed to be and do what I am supposed to do, and other days, well, I manage to figure out where I was supposed to have been, and hope no one gets in the way of my forgetfulness. Or, as I affectionately call it, my forgetfulSTRESS. Let's see now, what am I supposed to be doing right now? Doing the dishes that are piled in the sink? Making the bed? Paying bills? Mopping the floor? I know it is one of those blasted chores, but oh well, I must have forgot!

LOL! I do that quite often but I like to blame it on the concussions i've suffered. Now I forgot what else I was gonna say.

Lol yes I do get that to and have done a few times I think a lot of People get that, it just seems like your Mind has gone blank. I do hate it when that happens, because later on I remember and then I start again lol.

I do that all the time and have done for a long time and I'm 29. I do it at work which is the worst when I go to a dofferent floor to do something and by the time I have got there i have forgotten what I was going to do. In fact I can just walk to the end of the same floor I;m on and by the time I'm there I have forgotten what I got up for. My mind always has a million things whizzing around of things I need to do so I think thats what causes it.

Oh Yes! I found that mine started at around 60 years of age. But I add to that problem a hearing loss. Now try to concentrate on one thing and listen to someone who is talking to you with a hearing loss and it's a whole new world. One time while in the car we had pulled up behind a SUV at at stop light. My wife said something to me and, in the car, the only way I can hear her is to look at her lips. I did until she finished talking, turned back to look at the van in from of me and it seemed like we were rolling into that van. I had my foot on the brake so knew that could not be. About the time I realized the SUV was backing up it hit. Now as you know most of tem have trailer hitches. It put a hole in my bumper. Had I been able to hear without looking that would not have happened. That is so true of almost everything I do. It seems to me once I lost that hearing I lost my mind too. And almost anthing can distract me just as you say. And these are our golden years! HA!

trust me, i'm so much more worse than that, i'm only 23 yet i've had myself quite a few of these senior moments. i always forget my eyeglasses, i'm shortsighted(this makes me sound even older) i never remember secrets my friends tell me or what courses they're doing, i always forget the gossip, but i always thought that that made me a good listener, you know i would listen to their secrets and then never repeat them cuz i've forgotten. But this is the classic one, our trash can is in our laundry room, so sometimes instead of putting the dirty laundry ( i dont' do the laundry, just transfer my dirty clothes there) i have been know to put it in the trash can instead, now this is just a moment, and then i go like 'what am i doing' and correct the mistake. But for some reason, i don't think this has anything to do with my memory, cuz i did a memory test and got like 82% which is great, and i do remember things very clearly about my past, things that mean something to me, i always thought of my brain as deleting those files and folders that i don't really need to remember and keeping only the important ones, haha.

my dear, don't worry it happens to everybody from time to time...maybe we all have a bit of problem with aging!!!LOL!!! You made me smile because I happen to be a neurologist and I happen to work with people with memory impairment (I mean people with dementia like Alzheimer and so on) and I spend most of my time inquiring about people's memory!!I can do a lot of test to quantify memory and cognitive impairment...and I am the one who sometimes doesn't remember what she was going to do or say just like you!!!! It is wonderful!!!!