What kinds of things are you not remembering? Important things or less important? If it is less important stuff, maybe you are just filling up that memory space with new information. What did your pdoc say?

I used to be able to remember conversations word for word years afterwards and I have recently realized that I don't anymore. Sometimes I can't even remember recent conversations that I considered important. But I think that remembering details like that just isn't so important anymore so I haven't really worried about it. I'm not on meds (except for St John's Wort) but I have had a lot of stress in the last several months. I don't know whether you have something you should be worried about or not, but it's entirely possible that there is a legitamate reason that you don't remember things. Talk to your doctor about it though. If it is related to the meds it could be reversible too.


The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root it doesn't need its brain any more so it eats it. It's rather like getting tenure.
Rodolfo Llinas, neuroscientist (from Daniel C. Dennett's Consciousness Explained).