How brain fog feels…

Posted by jonnyboy @jonnyboy, Oct 30 12:22pm

I caught long Covid back in the pandemic, and Brian fog happened along with 3 other symptoms, but it took about 3-4 years to make a total fall in my intellect. For the first 1-8 months is simply a strange thinking way, becoming less grasping of your whole mental state, then comes the feeling. At about 5-10 months in brain fog makes you forget and not be able to think, and it holds the way through with you and it makes a feeling and with that feeling is less ability of your using your full well mind. It somehow takes 2 years from that point to fully developed into the losing of the rest of the symptoms of it yet your intelligence has lowered say 1/10th of your IQ from before. Now it’s over 4 years later I was an author and I was shut down from thinking, and it’s now I can build back my old ability slowly I can become smarter again. But that is one of the more common effects of long Covid and finding yourself on that path you come to the question of what is happening to me? It’s confusing and seeing how Covid still has a chance of being fatal or given the long Covid aftermath it’s still important to understand what maybe someone else is going through.

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ephrum | @ephrum | Oct 31 3:17pm

Good description of brain fog. I had a terrible time describing it to doctors. So good to hear someone improved. I am into my fourth year and all these symptoms continue to get worse.

pdoubrava | @pdoubrava | Oct 31 3:43pm

I dont believe it lowers ur IQ. But the problems it causes in the brain are so real. Perfect example of brain fog...my niece was out of town, wanted to give my sister and her husband a nice stay home date night without big sister up on 2nd floor. Thought i was so on top of things. I was also so missing my 21 yr old daughter. Its hard for her to visit me cuz she and her bf have apt, taking classes, working full time. I decided to get a night away at a hotel near my daughter. Found 63 rate for nice hotel with sinking tub and they were allowing me to bring my cat lol i packed up in miracle time of 30 min, sister loaded car for me, got to the hotel where the clerk and i discovered i had booked it for nov 22nd. I cried for 1 minute, pulled myself together and drove home. When they tried to change the date for that day, the rate tripled. So i now have room booked and paid for in nov. I knew i was in deep trouble in beginning of my LC when i could not do my daily crossword puzzle at all and when i tried to soothe myself with my adult coloring books i colored like a 3 yr old. Very humbling! Things are much improved now but cant read a book from concentration issues. I was told at neuro inst penn med that i had suffered a traumatic brain injury. This virus invades every system in our body and i have tried so hard not to think of it as an alien in my body cuz it really creeps me out.