I don’t even have Covid - this is a side effect of my new medication. Am I just supposed to wait this out for weeks or months? Why can’t I just be sedated until it’s over? Why won’t my neurologist call me back? Death to America.

Any advice on how to cope with this?

  • Wertheimer [any]
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    2 months ago

    Thanks for the advice. Four years, goddamn. Glad it's in the past tense for you now. Did working out help just to get through it, or did it make a noticeable difference on the brain fog? I do have less physical fatigue than I did at first from this medication so that is an option for me.

    Part of the reason I take COVID so seriously is because I never want to experience that again.

    I had it from a previous medication and, yes, it's a main ingredient in my deathly fear of Long Covid.

    • FishLake@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      Four years give or take. I might still get foggy every once in a while, but it’s due to normal things like not getting enough sleep. I’m so, so sorry you’re experiencing it now.

      Working out essentially gave me a couple hours of clarity to do the necessary things to care for myself. Like going to the grocery store or cleaning my depression hovel. Like I said, I was not consistent at all. I was lucky to have a ton of support from loved ones. I ended up working some very physically demanding jobs, which helped a lot with the consistency, save for the toll they took on my body.

      Over time those “windows of clarity” got longer. But again, it wasn’t until I started being treated for other conditions that my executive functioning really changed.