new member had written on the activity board.

Hi, thanks Primek for the sleep article.  I like to get me teeth into the whys and wherefores of what is happening to me.  I agree sleep is a big consideration.  While my sleep is not perfect at present, I am not awake for hours as I have been in the past.   What I'm talking about is the ability to hold  stuff in my short-term memory while I go to a different Word document in my computer and come to type it out - Its gone! or being unable to hold 3 different components of a plan in my mind while I work out what to do for the best, or going  into Coles to buy 5 things and as soon as I walk through the door I can only remember 1. 

Finding out that researchers have named this as a Working Memory deficit will hopefully give me the strength to reply calmly to people who say 'but its probably just ageing anyway'.  I'm 64 and acknowledge I'm ageing but this is something specific and different.  Here's an Abstract of an article from the American National Centre for Biotechnology Information:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28177081

I realise I have to stay on Tamoxifen for 5 years but the prospect of putting up with this for years is definitely depressing!

Linda

PS Thank you SoldierCrab for re-posting my initial post to the Online Network.