TL;DR version: If you're experiencing something that you don't like, look to fix it, ESPECIALLY when related to your health! Your quality of life decreasing due

TL;DR version: If you're experiencing something that you don't like, look to fix it, ESPECIALLY when related to your health! Your quality of life decreasing due to memory loss is enough of a concern to justify getting it checked out. Issues w/memory that I've experienced at different points in my life were related to diet, sleep deprivation and thyroid problems. Are you experiencing any other issues? How's your mood stability? Do you get enough to eat/drink/sleep (7-9 hours) each day? Memory issues can be tied to a lot of issues, but some things may not be the root cause. Sleeping/eating disorders could be affecting your memory, but the disorders themselves could be caused by other underlying issues. Personally, I had memory issues related to chronic sleep dep (driven by a "sleep is for the weak" mentality and a firm insistence for years that I only needed 4-5 hours a night). Getting onto a regular sleep cycle fixed the memory problems and a host of other issues. Having sleep deprived myself from age 14 to 25, the impact it had was incredible. I became much more creative & productive. I started having sleep/memory issues again in the past year (along with mood issues and irregular appetite) with increasing frequency. I've got a currently undiagnosed (waiting on blood work) thyroid issue, but started taking synthetic thyroid hormone a few months back. The fact that it's resolved all problems points to hypothyroidism, so now I'm hunting down its cause. Thyroid issues can be notoriously difficult to diagnose, since (I think) all tests could come back inconclusive/negative & most doctors use the TSH test to rule it out. The TSH test usually only reports thyroid issues in extreme cases, though, which is why there's a growing movement in medicine to educate doctors against using it as a thyroid litmus test. As my mom puts it (thyroid problems run deep and wide in our family), "it pretty much just tells you if you're alive". If you suspect a thyroid issue, you'll want all thyroid blood tests run, especially thyroid antibody tests. If a doctor isn't willing to order them all, find another that will. I saw an endocrinologist who repeated incorrect thyroid information related to my test results that I've both read about and have been told about by my GP & a dermatologist friend of the family (both are excellent diagnosticians & doctors). I won't be seeing the endo again. One thing that makes thyroid issues difficult to pin down is that it requires the patient to be knowledgeable & assertive about their own treatment in order to properly gauge their doctors. Here's a collection of links w/info on different thyroid aspects: http://thyroid.about.com/od/gettestedanddiagnosed/Get_Tested_for_Thyroid_Disease_and_Properly_Diagnosed.htm http://thyroid.about.com/od/gettestedanddiagnosed/Get_Tested... Sorry to go a little offtopic on thyroid stuff. That little gland has plagued my family for generations, so I'm pretty adamant about pointing it out as a potential cause of things.