Hi I am Dr Mittal. I have read your message. I think I can help you. First, the symptoms of the query are quite suggestive of early dementia. Dementia is a condition of gradual loss of memory and other mental functions. Now, I would have liked to know your age. The only clue I get from the query about your age is that you are post menopausal. So you must be at least above 45 - 50 years of age, which is the age where some forms of dementia start manifesting. I would, in my office, have preferred to do a full mental status examination. That however, is not possible on this query. This is important. Because forgetting things can be a part of normal day to day activity- I mean lot of people forget things at home daily, and lots of people go through a practiced activity without remembering the details. This is not dementia. One may even be concentrating on some other work whereby a practiced activity is performed perfectly but the patient does not remember the details because the attention was not paid to the activity. A simple example from daily routine- when driving, people tend to enjoy music because the driving is a part of the practice and so they can use their higher mental faculties to enjoy some music. During such activities the driver may not recollect how many times the gear was changed. However, if something comes up suddenly, the music is forgotten and your attention switches to the control of the car immediately. During such a phase, the music played in background is not remembered by the driver but every step taken to avoid a possible disaster is remembered in minutest details. So, if you are thinking about something when you are about to drive, you may forget the wallet. Same for the perm and neutralizer. What I am trying to tell you is that just because you do not remember 2 particular activities does not mean that you have dementia. You need a full formal testing to be done by a trained neurologist before one can diagnose dementia. If however you do have dementia, it is very likely that taking multiple drugs can increase the dementia, in other words, it may affect the memory. I have tried to make it as simple as possible. Please feel free to contact me for a full mental status examination. However, you will need 3-4 response cycles when I give you the questionnaire and assess your response. So please enter a query accordingly. Alternatively, as suggested, meet a neurologist in your local area for the evaluation and a MRI brain study. Best of luck, Dr Mittal