"blank spots" in memory? | ADHD Information

I"m wondering if this is a symptom, or just a wierd personal quirk.
I occasionally have blank spots in my memory. Its not so much that I cant remember what I was doing all afternoon or anything like that. Its more that I'll blank out specific conversations or details and no matter how hard I try I cant recall them. I'd swear that they had never happened.
The worst that I can remember was once when I sent a friend a gift. I called the next week to make sure he'd recieved it, and his reply was 'uhm, we had a conversation about this a couple of days when I called to thank you for it'. Totally threw me.
I have this happen from time to time, and I'm now worried that I cant trust my memory at all. Kinda gives me this awful feeling of not knowing what is real and what isnt. Very nerve wracking.
Any thoughts/help???????????

 I always try to get a small detail thats related to the memory to come back, and then I expand on it, for example I work in a steel factory processing orders, fairly often a question of weather or not I had shipped out something comes up. As long as I know what day it was supposed to go Im ok, Ill just remember something that happened that day <usually what i had for lunch> and kind of build events around it..eh, but thats just me.Nope, not on meds. Just got diagnosed a few wks ago and havent made it to the med part yet! I'm trying diet changes to see if that helps me. May look into things like ginkgo, pine bark and st john's.
I'm glad to know that it may go away on meds. It really freaks me out.
Chocoholic...I'm just curious -- are you currently on meds? Or is this what happens when you're not on meds?

I have the same happen to me. It can be quite embarrasing.    However, I'm not on meds at this time.Oh, wow. I didnt realize that so many people shared this problem. And yeah, I can definitely see what some of you are saying in terms of getting distracted and your mind being somewhere else in the conversation, so how can you remember something you didnt really participate in? What is really frustrating, is like the last poster was saying- how can you have an important meeting/conversation/ that you were an active participant in (like his employee benefits mtg) that you entirely cant recall?
I've noticed that some people do that to me as well- there are certain people that for the life of me I just cant seem to focus on. They may be the most interesting people in the world, but as soon as they start talking I space out and have no idea later what we talked about. So wierd.

I don't think I forget  so much as I didn't pay attention to the person i was talking too  in the first place like the SCRUBS example.  Sometime, i will fire off a question as it occurs and realize I knew the answer when i hear it but, was just to quick to ask the Question. I don't think  everyone remembers  every experince of there lifetime. People sometimes remind me of stuff I dont recall from the past I don't give it two thoughts. Everyone forgets  stuff. 

Hi. I  have memory problems like losing things, in other words forgetting where I put them. I also can very easily forget if I took a medication for example, or some particular task like paying a bill. The worst thing is to remember something, and be sort of happy that I remembered it and have it leave as quickly as it came, so I end up, ultimately still having forgotten what ever it was. Somtimes this occurs much more often than others...Hang in there chocoholic you are not alone.  Last year we opened a new office.  I was sent to be the office manager and we had 35 employees.  I had a meeting with two of my managers to go over benefits.  I was to explain it to our new employees when the time came.  When the time came I totally could not remember what we discussed in the meeting.  I called my manager to go over it one more time before the meeting.  We went over it over the phone and when we ended our conversation and hung up I could not remember a single word he said.  It was like it never happened.  I drifted to lala land as he was explaining it to me.  I called in the other manager to come help me stating the day was busy and got by.  I have also been in many situations similar to yours.  It's really embarrassing.  I finally got the courage to see a DR three months ago to find out what was going on.  Now I know I have ADHD.  Chocoholic - yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!!!!!

I will often ask my boyfriend something, only to have him reply "you already asked me that this morning", or "don't you remember me talking about that earlier?". LOL - thankfully he is very understanding and we usually laugh about it.   I believe it happens because of our tendency to be so easily distracted. During a conversation (especially in a vehicle), I could notice something out of the corner of my eye and that will momentarily have my full attention. Or one of my random thoughts will pop into my head and take over. In these momentary lapses, the memory of what the other person is saying will not form in my head.   If anyone watches the show "Scrubs", on last night's episode, JD was talking to a girl in a bar and while she was talking, he started thinking something, and we heard his thought over her speaking. Later he couldn't remember what she had said. I thought - THAT'S SO ME!!!
  They say the human brain is blessed with perfect memory, just lousy recall. Well, I can recall things in sometimes astonishing detail, as long as the memory had a chance to form in the first place. LOL.

Memory is a big problem for me and for my son as well.  The holes in my memory get bigger the farther back in time I go.  So I forget small details that happened today, whole afternoons last week, and beyond about 10 years it is just patchy bits of memory.  It is troubling.

I do have holes in my memory. However, these holes don't get bigger the further back you go... in fact, my wife gets mad at me because I can quote something she said from 10 years ago... especially if it helps me win! lol 

I definitely have some things that seem to go into a black hole and completely disappear, however. My boss talked to me about a report recently, and I looked at her like she had two heads... I had no idea what she was talking about. She thought I was crazy though, when she dug out the report that we had discussed and showed me... I HAD WRITTEN IT!

Hate to tell you this too... I am on medication. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Meds DO NOT cure ADD/ADHD! I just joke about it... I mean, what else can you do? My mother always used to say, "Might as well laugh as cry."