I really don't know where to put this, so I'll start here.

In the past year, I've started to notice increasing short term memory loss. I'm fifty. The medications for my chronic pain can all do that, but I've been on them for years and this is relatively new.

Sometimes it takes five or six trips upstairs before I remember what I went there for. My friend sometimes tells me about recent events at our business that I have no memory of.

Does anyone know the general age that Alzheimers hits and how to tell if its happening? I have my doubts that is what is going on, but its crossed my mind and causes a little anxiety.

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