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Posted 9/26/2017 4:46 PM (GMT 0)
Topic is straightforward. Mine feels like I am brain-dead and my mind is constantly drifting and I have to basically snap myself back in to the present, just intense day dreaming and sometimes not even realizing what I am doing. Anyone relate? Also seems like mine gets worse when I am around fluorescent lights, mine also comes in waves.
Posted 9/26/2017 8:08 PM (GMT 0)
I'm super spacey, staring off into nowhere. My mind has trouble focusing but so do my eyes- I can't make eye contact when people speak to me, I have to be very very strict with myself when driving. My eyes tend to look through the road and I don't focus on anything.
I also leave a million tasks unfinished. I will stop in the middle of one to do another, and by the end of the day find things laying around that I just dropped and walked away from.
I stop speaking in the middle of a conversation because I can't remember what I was saying, or I suddenly hear myself and it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I still am not sure if I'm babbling incoherently or if it's my mind that can't comprehend what my lips are saying just fine.
And I spend hours being distracted. Surfing the internet, watching videos, looking up recipes that I never get the energy to cook. I need to clean the kitchen first, but I may as well finish that messy recipe before cleaning the kitchen, oh I don't have any clean towels I need to do laundry, and first I should unload the dishwasher but OH i forgot to pay that bill and wait the mail just arrived so I'll get it and see the trash bin has been collected, need to put it back, oh that giant weed in the yard is ugly... what was I doing?

I used to have trouble understanding what I was reading and what other people are saying, but that has improved, as well as my speech getting words mixed up and stuttering. Still have relapses though.
Posted 9/26/2017 8:30 PM (GMT 0)
WOW SPOT ON BABS "I stop speaking in the middle of a conversation because I can't remember what I was saying, or I suddenly hear myself and it doesn't make any sense whatsoever" what you said I agree with 1000%. I have days where its really bad and other days its not bad at all. But like I said lights somehow make it worse which is strange.
Posted 9/26/2017 10:21 PM (GMT 0)
Ohhhh, Babsbunny, you made me laugh so hard I started coughing and my chest hurt and I nearly wet my pants!!!!

I can totally relate to what you and Tick41 said. It sounds just like me. Mine fluctuates, too. It's not always that bad and I feel like hormone changes greatly affect mine.

Funny, I never called this brain fog. I thought these symptoms felt like OCD/ADD.

I was just thinking about this last night and wondering what brain fog actually is. I remembered there was a time that lasted about a year when I was going through a very trying time. Physically and mentally, I felt like I was in slow motion like someone trudging through a thick swamp. I couldn't think straight and I was sleeping 10-12 hours a night. My mind felt like I was drugged or couldn't fully wake up.

After that time passed, I assumed it had been depression, but now I'm not so sure. It could have been from mold or Lyme. I had just moved back in my parents house after being gone about 5 years. I was sleeping in a room where the roof had been leaking and the ceiling had caved in years before. The ceiling, carpet, and mattress had been replaced but there may have been mold behind the walls that wasn't visible. I didn't start feeling better until I went back to work and was not in the house so much.
Posted 9/27/2017 1:29 AM (GMT 0)
Spacey is the word. I feel spaced out, not with it. Not able to concentrate. The worst it ever got was I felt catatonic and couldn't move or speak for about 20 minutes. That was about a year ago. Since then, I occasionally have trouble thinking of a word - words don't come to me fast enough and I know it's not normal absentmindedness. It's like the doorway effect - when you go into a room and forget why you're there.
Posted 9/27/2017 12:10 PM (GMT 0)

WalkingbyFaith said...
Ohhhh, Babsbunny, you made me laugh so hard I started coughing and my chest hurt and I nearly wet my pants!!!!

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Funny, I never called this brain fog. I thought these symptoms felt like OCD/ADD.

Sorry. turn
I kind of went beyond the brain fog and added the other weird mental stuff as well. To strictly describe "brain fog" I would say just that - it feels like there is fog or sometimes even a wall in my brain that I can't see or think through. I'm just not myself. I feel like I'm dreaming most of the time. My memories feel like dreams, if I even remember them at all, and sometimes I wake up confused, like I don't know if something actually happened or it was a dream.
Posted 9/27/2017 12:17 PM (GMT 0)
Also,YES- lights affect me too- flashing especially. Light up toys are the worst.
I have motion issues as well. I was on a dinner boat a few weeks ago, and absolutely doing fine. In the middle of a conversation, I noticed they turned the city lights on so I started looking at them outside the window and focused on the movement outside, not the relative stillness inside.
I got the worst dizzy spell ever, had to sit down and recover. I tried to continue the conversation but all the brain fog came back- couldn't speak, couldn't think, stuttering, it was like a switch that turned it all back on again.

If I even see pictures of movement- with lines or motion blur, I get dizzy and feel sick. I bought a striped t shirt but can't wear it because I get sick looking in the mirror X-D
Posted 10/1/2017 6:56 PM (GMT 0)
Oh yes! I agree feels like severe ADD. " Oh wait there goes a chicken!". Like I was saying severe ADD. I often will forget a answer to a question I just ask , will ask it again and then other person looks at me like like I feel off the stupid truck. "Oh wait I see something shiny! " I could just sit and space out ...make sit hard to watch a movie as it seems only a few things can keep my attention or not bore me in 5 minutes now. Feels like your trying the think through a fog . Just waiting for a fog horn to sound off. Makes me feel no oneit attending the light house in my head. You know, the lights are on but nobody's home....I get dizzy too at times. Just bizarre....
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