Post COVID Brain Fog: The Consistent Mystery

I had a repeat CT of my lungs and the ground-glass opacities had resolved. I continue to have migraines, brain fog, tinnitus, intermittent anxiety and altered smell.

I understand that online medical prescriptions should be the last thing one should follow up on but with nothing coming from the medical community - it gets very enticing.

What confuses me is the lack of testing or investigative efforts. I know that we are fighting a hard to find or evasive virus that all say it dies in 11 days - no 10 or now 5 days so we can get back to work earlier. Yes, we have a photo of it (Orange ball with spikes) but can't find it. We speculate it's in our lungs, gut, heart, brains, blood vessels, brain and nervous system but heaven help us if we do scans or run test to verify it or take blood samples to check for indicators. Why not track it down as we do cancer and start a systematic treatment for the symptoms if we are too scared to try a cure.
I know as one of the old folks (74) you young whippersnappers could care less about us losing a year or two of your life span - but if medical industry doesn't address it head on our two years could become ten on your end. Our government has abandoned testing and apparently cures and instead would like to keep it hidden as was the case with abortions and aids - how did that work out

Great story! How much MCT oil does he take?

Thank you for your comment. I have been experiencing brain fog, headaches, coughing, and shortness of breath ever since I had COVID in September of 2022. I never even heard of long term COVID until my friend, a nurse, told me she thought I may have this. It's almost a relief that I have a cause, now how do I get rid of it?

Hi Cult8r. I would suggest bringing your concerns to your PCP. They would need to rule out any other issues before treating you for long covid. I definitely wouldn’t put a doctor visit off. The sooner the better in my opinion. Best wishes to you.

At 15 months post COVID I went through 10 consecutive sessions of hyperbaric oxygen treatment and that was the turning point in my brain fog. Even within the first few treatments I began to see improvement, and it was amazing the before and after results. I could find words and I could speak those words! My brain fog continued to clear up each day. I’m now at 27 months post COVID and I’m close to pre-covid brain.

After getting covid, I forgot things easily and could not focus, I went to the bathroom 3 to 4 times per night, I felt extremely tired even after a long night sleep. Doctors checked me up and could not find the reason. But after some months of getting enough oxygen level, I feel energized in the morning, my memory is getting better by 90% -95%, I am still trying to reach to 100% level. I now can work long hours without feeling tired. This is all that I have been doing: walking at least 6000 steps every morning, often practicing 4-7-8 breathing technique during day time (I read about this technique from CNN), use Medcline pillow (you can use an alternate brand, as long as it is elevated, it is good for you), humidifier for my bedroom, light salt water (after brushing teeth), neck/muscle stretching and I wear Oxygen ring monitor overnight. When you wear an oxygen ring monitor, you will know what position of sleeping can help to get the best oxygen level. To my knowledge, lacking oxygen makes our brain foggy, tired, all of our organs are affected dramatically since blood cannot be delivered to all parts of our body. A year ago, I myself thought I got Alhzeimer at an early age but now I am back to normal so I hope my info helps you too. Daily 4/7/8 Mindfulness breathing before bedtime truly helps. Good luck to you all!!!

I forgot to mention, besides breathing, drinking enough water helps too 🙂

Check out the book Clearing the Fog by Dr.Jackson. It’s an easy read (I got it on Audible because my head shakes and I can’t read) but it was an easy listen:). Very good info.

I get so frustrated with the Long Covid recovery groups when they prescribe neuro psych exams well in to your illness. In my case, I was nearly 10 months into long covid when I had mine. I asked what they were expecting to find as they had no baseline data prior to covid infection and any findings would be post infection without a comparison so it could not tell or indicate a loss of function. So when I took mine, they found I was average to above average and to explain away my assertion that I had memory, brain function problems - they asserted that I was arrogant or verbose in my belief I was smarted or my brain functioned better the weeks before Covid. I never had much respect for psychologists before covid - I have absolutely none now. The lack of common sense, competence in the treatment for long covid gives me pause as either they have no clue or they do and don't want the patients to have one ( a clue).
It seems so simple - there should be a standard set of blood test at 1 month, 6 months and yearly after that as long as you have symptoms. Additionally, you should have appropriate scans at 6 months then yearly until symptoms end unless the organs being scanned show damage. We know Covid can damage the lungs, heart, brain, nerves, intestines, pancreas, ..... They owe it to us as this desease is part of the rush to a cure and eventually 1 in 4 will be affected by it - up to and including death.