Re: Pat (CA) memory issues

July 3, 2007

Pat,

I am so sorry I did not see your post before now. I do not always

look at the posts. I have been on lately as I have been looking at

Ken and Tim's progress.

I am still having troble with memory issues and yes several of my

drugs have side affects that say there are known problems. I take

Gengraph (cyclosporine) and I also take prednisone. Both of these

are documented as having memorey issues. I am a 43 female and it is

also possible that the tx threw me into pre-menopause. But we are

not certain of that at the moment. I was scheduled to have a neuro -

pysch testing but I have not been given a date yet. And the

Transplant doctor does not feel like it will show much. But truly

there are some real issues for me post tx with memory. I have

trouble driving places, even places where I have been many times

before. I have forgotten blocks of things. As for instructions, I

must write absolutely eveything down and not miss any step or I

liteally will be screwed. If I have written step a and step c, I can

not figure out what step b should be. If someone gives me verbal

instructions I must write them down while they are speaking or I

will lose it by the time I get back to my desk.

I have made some poor judgements in my private life things like

hiring of contactors. It is as if I can not make fine detail

judgements.

I do not concentrate well, and my head has a million things going

thru it at once.

I use to wonder if all that " ADD " and " ADHD " crap was real as it

seems as though every kid has it these days. Well I actually feel

like I have something like that sometimes.

I am only on 7.5 mgs of prednisone so I hesitate to blame it on that

since I have been on prednisone just about my entire life. But it

is like my brain is on hyperspeed; but going nowhere......

feel free to post me privately. if you wish to discuss more.

beth ann

uc and psc 1978, ltx 1/06

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