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?
Sorry for my ignorance, but how did you experience brain fog or what were the symptoms you had? I hear about it often as forgetfulness or difficulty focusing but to me that just sounds like par for the course with people these days. I'm guessing it can get more severe?
Brain fog is kind of a nebulous term. It’s real though. Lots of causes and symptoms. But yeah, inability to focus and fatigue are big hallmarks. It’s just . . . a different flavor of those symptoms. More insidious. Slower and diffuse, affecting your whole body. I always thought of it like I was constantly walking up a slope. Not a super steep mountain, just a gentle uphill slope. Literally everything was uphill from me, my goals, necessities, emotions, everything. After a while you’re so worn through because you’re always climbing. This isn’t only a bodily fatigue. Imagine “thinking uphill.” Knowing that you have to pick up medicine tomorrow is like holding onto a piton for hours. If you let go then you’re falling. You can’t write it down either because fetching a stickie note might make you forget. Those daydream fantasies we escape to when we’re tired become mountains in of themselves. You want to think about them but it’s too taxing. You’d rather let thoughts pass above you than chase them.
Damn, that sounds terrible. I hope you are doing better now!
I'm not sure if that type of thing is permanent but I hope you're okay.
Thanks, I am okay now. Bouts of brain fog don’t count for much to me nowadays.
But it truly its own hell if whatever is causing it is unmanageable. And sometimes the cause can be unknown, like in my case for a long time. Some people do indeed suffer it permanently. Unfortunately a lot more people today with the ubiquity of Long COVID.