Glenn Beck's article reeks of a promotional piece and I am somewhat skeptical of the reporting of his medical symptoms. It's like 'telephone' where a lot is lost in transmitting the information, because it doesn't sound reasonable to me that a physician would say any of the things he said. For example, you always hear the whole, "You've got x number of years to live," but in reality almost no physician I've ever worked with would say something like that. They will give you data in cancer survival for example, but someone with an undefined illness as he describes could not be given a prognosis! And then the moment he refrences this 'healing center' that performs 'miracles' my alarms were going off. I think you need to also consider that a lot of the symptoms he was supposedly showing are commonly seen in facticious or somatization disorder.<p>Open up his medical record to scrutiny by other physicians and let me see the data, otherwise I am very doubtful of his 'facts.'
This isn't meant to be flippant at all, but I wonder if Arrington has had his Vitamin D levels checked recently.<p>VitD plays an important role in memory, and people with extremely low levels often report brain fog. Working all the time indoors over the span of many years, tends to deprive people of proper access to the sun (or peak sun, when you'd normally get the bulk of your VitD). And it's impossible to keep your VitD levels up at ~40 or 50 where they should be, with diet alone.<p>The sustained lack of Vitamin D has also been increasingly linked to neurological disorders.
I actually have similar symptoms on a smaller scale - I never remember my dreams, and I generally can't tell you if an event happened in the last month or the last year.<p>I get plenty of sleep, though, so I'm just going to chalk that up to having a bad memory.
Interesting, I never considered my reliance on meta-data to place events in time to be a symptom of anything. I thought that was just how memory works.<p>You mean to say people normally remember approximately how long ago something happened? Like, not just from "Ok so event X happened, and it couldn't have happened before event Y, and Y relates to Z that I know for a fact happened in so and so year, so I think X happened D months/years ago"<p>Similarly, I have never been able to remember a name, but I can always remember a face for forever. To the point that I will see random people in the street and wont' be able to tell if I only saw them once randomly in the street or I went to high school with them.<p>Remembering conversations, hah, funny. People actually remember those more than just the two or three key takeaways?<p>Funnily I can almost always remember my dreams to the point that I usually can't tell the difference between dream memories and real memories.
Last year, I read the autobiography of Isaac Asimov (the first two books, not the later memoirs) and he wrote that he was terrible at remembering names of the people he met.<p>I thought this was very odd, because he was famous for remembering millions of little facts about history and science. Maybe he experienced a similar phenomenon?
I am experiencing exactly this, and I have been reflecting over how it got worse recently. Can't say I process an insane amount of information, though. Could it be a warning sign that one might expect Alzheimer's later in life at this rate?
So glad to come across this article. Thanks ssclafani and Michael Arrington.<p>I think I am coming across the same thing after my bout with Salmonella + 19 days of painkillers