I used to have an extensive vocabulary but now in conversation I find myself searching for words to express what I am trying to say. Sometimes they’re simple words like door, table, etc, sometimes they are more complex. I know that they’re there I just can’t quite put my finger on them. They may pop into my head several hours later and as soon as it pops in my head it comes out of my mouth. I may not even be speaking with the same person. It’s like walking through fog.

This may have nothing to do with the topic, but for some reason my brain classifies it as the same thing, but when you see the color red and know it’s the color red, I call it yellow, and vice versa. I have to mentally remind myself that “no, this is not red, but yellow”. It’s something I’ve always had to do and have been able to make the adjustment automatically. But the last few years I don’t make the adjustment automatically anymore, in fact I very often forget entirely that it is needed. I’ve had to explain to my family that when I say yellow I probably mean red. They treat it as a joke “is this the real red or mom’s red”. They do not realize how much it bothers me.

I do not believe that it is from my meds, because it started long before I started taking them. I thought that it was early onset Alzheimer’s since my grandmother experienced the same problem. We all just assumed that it was Alzheimer’s that she was suffering from, repeatedly asking the same questions, asking what a table is called etc. But she was tested before her death and was told that the scan showed no evidence of Alzheimer’s.

I’m in my late thirties, and have not had a stroke. Anyone have any ideas as to what this might be?