short term memory loss

[Sherryg683]

Chemo has totally messed with my memory and it is frustrating me terribly. I can understand that while on the chemo my brain was fuzzy, that's where the term "chemo brain" comes in. But this is 2 years after, I am on Herceptin so I don't know if that comes into play. I have terrible problems with retaining things. I will read a book and come back to it the next night and have to re -read the last chapter because I forgot what it was about. Appointments, things that I have said..forget it. My husband got annoyed at me the other night because I asked him 4 times if he had let the dogs out. Then last night was the topper. I wear this mouth piece to bed (because I grind my teeth) and was searching frantically for it for about 5 minutes, I then looked down and saw that I had it in my hand along with my reading glasses...duhhh. I told my Oncologist that I feel like a bumbling idiot sometimes. He said that short term memory loss is common in chemo patients. My brother has been through the mill with chemo and his memory is just fine. Anyone else walking around forgetting if they tied their shoes or not? ...sherryg683