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 Sorry to hear you had to go through that but glad you recovered. Some people around me are trying to cope with the same long-Covid symptoms. They e.g are participating in studies now, too, to get any medical help to improve their situation. Some are carrying the symptoms for 1,5 years now.
@teekayyye
Jeezus! If I had that "brain fog" for 18 months, I'd be suicidal. I began to think I was developing dementia!
I assume medical science has no treatment for it yet, no?