Hello, I recently had this issue come up during a couple presentations and I am wondering if this is a "me" thing or whether this is more widespread and possible strategies to help with it. 

I've been in two situations recently where I've been giving presentations in front of a group of people and another situation where I was taking an oral examination. I was allowed notes for both but I noticed that when I looked down at my notes, I couldn't read them. I'm not dyslexic, I've never had this problem outside testing. Usually my heart is racing and I'm thinking a million miles a minute but was recently prescribed medicine to help with performance anxiety. When I took the medicine, my heart rate was more normal and I wasn't sweating, but I just couldn't read my notes. 

When I say "I couldn't read," I mean I legitimately looked down at my paper, the paper I had been rereading multiple times before I got up there perfectly fine, and the words were there, it just felt like I was looking at something written in Greek. I had absolutely lost the ability to comprehend anything I had written. I just stared at the paper for a few seconds trying to decipher it, and I couldn't. My handwriting was in print, it was neat, and I had reviewed that same paper multiple times right before the presentation.

Does anyone else have this problem? How have you dealt with it?