My post-Covid junk is from when I caught it in May 2020, so I've had some time to recover... some of the problems are still here, but the word recall one was so bad for me that I had brain imaging and psych testing for it. I also was having a terrible time typing - I would type at my usual pace, thinking I was writing sensible text, and suddenly a 'word' or 'phrase' would be unintelligible, absolute gibberish :/ I'm a middle school language arts and history teacher, and I wasn't even 50 yet!

The good news in my case is that they didn't see anything worrisome in the imaging or tests, and I recovered, very nearly to my old normal. It was really frustrating and uncomfortable, though. I tried supplements like gingko with no noticable effect. So decided I just needed to 'work out' - I forced myself to play spelling and pattern-recognizing games on my phone (Wordscapes, Bejeweled), and to read a lot of short texts daily. It felt awful - like the ending of Flowers for Algernon! - but after about a year of practice, I started to see improvement. I'm still working, and don't lose words often anymore, although I am worse at names than ever, sadly.

I hope this helps!

Kirsten

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