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
Had you been fully vacinnated prior to catching it? Usually that's why the symptoms are milder compared to being in the ICU. I've heard about the mental fog and I saw a billboard back in the spring here in Toronto where some entity was doing research into 'Long-Covid' and the brain fog.
@marathon0
Yes fully vaxxed! Two doses of Astra-Zeneca and one of Modena. In fact I was due for my 2nd booster when Covid struck.
You know, people say "brain fog" which is an unhelpfully non-descriptive term, really. I am simply assuming that what I experienced was that!