Um, I’m Sorry, What Was I Saying? Although brain fog is a classic part of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, it can also manifest when a patient experiences severe pain (CRPS for example), and worsened when your pain is high or you surrounded by excessive stimulus. There’s nothing more halting of my own cognitive processes than being in a busy environment, which also of course, always worsens the pain. Presenting as: Horrible short-term memory, difficulty with word finding and word substitution (e.g., substituting the word fork for knife), and occasional disorientation. You’ll may be in an in depth conversation, which you’re entirely interested in, and suddenly completely forget what the topic was, much less what you were in the middle of saying, which can be frustrating for both you and those you’re involved in conversation with. Other examples are often forgetting what you were saying, thinking or needed to do, an inability to come up with the proper words to describe feelings or a situation for example, difficulty writing, stuttering and difficulty understanding and retaining information. Bouts of dyslexia may also occur or become more intense for dyslexics. Fibro fog can also cause episodic disorientation – 30-90 seconds of suddenly not knowing where you are or where you’re going, says Dr. Teitelbaum, who says that happens in a third of women with fibromyalgia. The frustration that comes along with brain/fibro fog can be depressing. When brain fog is acting up, you know it, especially when you compare to before your chronic illness began. In some cases, brain fog is mild. For some, however, it can be severe and quite scary — especially in professionals who otherwise function at a very high level. Though standard testing will often not pick up the problem, in these cases the brain fog can make it difficult or even impossible to continue ones job. It may even leave you concerned that you are developing Alzheimers. But youre not. CFS/fibro/brain fog is when you keep forgetting where you left your keys — Alzheimers is when you forget how to use your keys! Read on for ways to clear the fog.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 00:16:41 +0000
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