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Have you had Brain Fog as a result of allergies?
Sometimes I feel out of it, like my brain just wants time out and not be present. I attribute this to allergies, although I am not sneezing or blowing my nose now. Have had several sinus problems like infections, although taking antibiotics clears it up and then it returns afterward.
The humidity in the air makes it worse. I feel more alive in stores with increased AC but today it's cloudy and rainy outside and I am thinking I want to sit and do nothing but I need to do stuff. Has anyone else felt like this and is it allergies?
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My constant brain fog was due to eating wheat because of the cross-reactivity to birch which I am allergic to. Take a look at my post on PFAS from 29 Sep 2025. There are a few links to what foods may react with trees, grasses, and weeds. Perhaps one of those is causing your issue, too?
No not until 9/23. But staying inside with the HEPA air filters going seems to help me a lot. I guess it's the outside air that my sinuses don't like !
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1 ReactionHI, @phxbarb - wondering if you've already had the balloon sinuplasty? If not, when you will have that? Are you still staying inside a lot?
Interesting question for your allergist. Several recent vertigo incidents resulted in my allergist restricting my use of prescription Flonase which can apparently contribute to vertigo. At the time, I was in physical therapy for the vertigo so I am unsure if stopping the Flonase helped to eliminate the vertigo or if it was just the PT. But we do need to recognize the side effects of all meds, that’s for sure.
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1 Reactionthe main benefit of a mask as I see it these days is to keep the germs away from you. Since we seem to be limping toward another covid event, the mask will help.
I tried that for a while but got no satisfaction. Also cuts down the length of my walks.
The main benefit of a mask is that it recycles the moisture in one's breath and keeps the mouth from getting dry.
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1 Reactionwe all have varying reactions to all kinds of things. the druggists must love us.
One of the major problems is many doctors' attitudes toward women. To them we are either premenopausal or post menopausal, they ignore our 'problems' as minor (but they do come to visit us in the hospital) or downplay the big stuff as 'female hysterics" until we faint dead away in front of them. Oh I would love to do that. It really gets their attention...
And I hear you about the allergies. would one of those covid masks help?
Brain Fog?
Almost continuously. If it's not tree pollen then its grass pollen. When that subsides Mimosa takes over. All species of vegetation wants its innings.
It's what I get for living in the woods.
Hopefully the sinuplasty will help with increasing your oxygen availability and breathing better!! I have memory issues - from years of steroids from my asthma. It is short term memory loss - but after 24 hours, I do recall what happened the previous day. It is not about concentrating. Unfortunately, I need to write myself notes throughout the day. Please realize it can be the side effect of a medication as well. Many years ago there was an asthma medication called Accolate. Worked GREAT on asthma, no steroids, etc. However, many in the asthma support group I was in, were on it. We then realized that we all had this short term memory loss, but kept "forgetting" to tell our MD, since it worked so well with asthma. Eventually, it was taken off the market (for other reasons). Singular - which is similar - may cause this as well as any medication you take. Google everything. Good luck!
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1 ReactionLook at it this way: if you found out you were allergic to cats and dogs. would you run out and get one? It's a comfort zone thing as much as anything. And you might find that the sinoplasy will take care of the problem...