I've been reading all the posts concerning memory loss, and my personal experience is I didn't have it until Gleevec. I've been one who has always lived with moderate to severe stress pretty much all my life and it never affected my memory. My husband, children, other family members all notice that I am just not who I used to be before Gleevec. Parts of my life are like a book now, one that I've read before, maybe even more than once but I can't remember all the details. I'm 43 years old and I just don't feel it's my time, nor am I at the age where I should be this forgetful. I've always been a very organized person...didn't have to write myself notes... but do now...I could remember telephone numbers, birth dates, considered myself an excellent speller...now I have to resort to the dictionary to get it right, most times I'm so frustrated I just spell it the best I can and to heck with it. I can't count the times I've left the stove on and I was always cautious with this, especially after my son caught our kitchen on fire. When I'm typing, certain words, for example...when I want to type the word "just"...I end up typing "such". I've done that several times...and there are other words I confuse. It's weird. As for cooking meals and having 3 or 4 things cooking at once...just can't do it anymore. I can start to do something...say for instance, I'm mopping my kitchen floor...before I can get it completed...I've jumped off on something else. When I'm driving, sometimes I'll ask myself, did I stop at that stop sign...hope I did. It really frustrates me at times, and I can sense the frustration in my family too. But I know if I want to stay alive, I've got to take the Gleevec and I've got to accept the bad that goes with it to get the good that comes out of it. If it's not the Gleevec...it must be the CML itself. Just sharing my experience for others...Love, Peace, Hope & Prayers for All, Pat
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