Having made it through several years of the COVID pandemic without catching it, I thought I'd got away with it. Wrong! A few months back I started coughing and feeling a bit off colour and the lateral flow test indicated that I had finally caught COVID-19. I tested positive for about 5 days and then the tests went negative. Other than an annoyingly persistent cough for about four days, a bit of a sore throat and a mild general feeling of malaise, it really wasn't that dramatic.
However, I noticed that I was forgetting things more than more than I usually do and that I was suffering from what I thought to be “brain fog”. This was characterized by an inability to bring words to mind when speaking and the general slowing down of my mental processes. For example, if I wanted to create a new Word document, something I do quite frequently, it would take anything up to 30 seconds between me thinking “I need to create a Word document” and my brain remembering how you do that. As I used to be a computer programmer, I found that really scary. This mental fog persisted for several weeks following the infection. Thankfully, several months later, I seem to have regained my mental agility.
Has anyone else experienced similar symptoms?
Does the description above qualify as “brain fog”?
@Paulos_the_fog the brain fog was a well documented symptom but strangely enough wasn't commonly documented until vaccines were introduced, the pharma companies blamed it on new variants and the media blamed it on the vaccines. But there's been no conclusive data yet as of the actual cause. I'm rare cases it stays long term. This was actually in the news like a year and a half ago, but it disappeared off the media radar, cause COVID isn't selling as many advertisements.
Glad you're feeling better though.
@Paulos_the_fog yeah, the symptom affects the observation here, if you're brain is in enough of a fog, a lot of people probably won't make the association till others externally notice. Can wind up going chicken or the egg debate with this particular combo for a while.
I had no such brain fog before I actually caught Covid-19 which therefore suggests to me that it is a product of Covid infection rather than of being vaccinated with the assortment of vaccines that I had had long before being infected.
@Paulos_the_fog
it's a bit troubling.. I think your right. I also think more people should be talking about it, because let's say you're brain is affected by 30%. If it recovers 25%, you still have a 5% deficit and maybe you don't notice because of the small amount. But 5% across 100m people. That's a serious problem. I also don't believe there will ever be a cure. They haven't cured the common cold, and it's in the same family. Which means the issue becomes an inevitability issue. Even though it's been around for a few years, that's still a short time for a virus. It's got many more mutations to go. I'm not saying it's something that will end humanity. But how much will humanity really be altered?
@skanman
Personally, given there were several vaccines in use, certainly where I live, there were four types given, and all worked in subtly different ways, I would guess that it had more to do under-reporting or the fact that people would not necessarily associate it with a "respiratory disease" than to do with any vaccine side effects.