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It just took me 15 seconds to remember someone's name.

Someone close to me. I should remember their name automatically.

I can make up for it, because I'm creative as fuck, but this is worrying.

It just took me 15 seconds to remember someone's name. Someone close to me. I should remember their name automatically. I can make up for it, because I'm creative as fuck, but this is worrying.

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[–] • 2 pts

I had a 7 week episode where I had a fever of 104 non-stop straight. My mind has had a recall and instant association recollection issue since. I've tested if I'm dumber / lower iq (coding projects) and no I seem to be exactly the same if tested.

But it's almost as if who I was (memory wise) before that 7 weeks has become dimmed. I can access specific memories, but they don't make auto associations on their own anymore. Or at least didn't for awhile.

I've got some other shit I've got to sort out before what I call "the evil 4" are cleared out (two down, previous job and degree, one half done, this damn property getting renovated, the other will have to be contained when the rest is ready).

[–] • 1 pt

I can still be witty, I can write great things off the top of my head, but I just can't remember anything...

[–] • 1 pt

Did you get the vax?

[–] • 0 pt

No. Had sexual relations with someone who was, but I doubt that has anything to do with it.

I'm still sharp in the moment, and can think well, it is just my memory that has gone to shit.

[–] • 1 pt

That sounds like brain damage. Have you seen a professional about this?

104 is really high for a fever, and for 7 weeks straight, you absolutely have organ damage. I'm surprised you're alive. What the hell caused this? A fever indicates an infection almost all of the time... did you have some kind of parasitic infection in your brain?

Whatever happened, I sincerely hope you recover.

[–] • 0 pt

This was about 3 years ago so my mind has probably “recovered” / readjusted by now. Maybe I never lost iq and I’m just imagining it. No way for me to know very easily.