Cognitive dysfunction in ulcerative colitis patients in remission

And your point of posting this?
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Good point Garyi

I really have problems with my memory. I can not concentrate on tasks and I have problems with my sleep.

I suspect that this is connected to my dormant UC. I have been in remission for 15 years regarding my colon.

But I have had many extraintestinal symptoms during that time.

So there is no point. I just wanted to share this study.

I suspect that the cognitive issues are due to the chronic stress of living with an unpredictable illness and long-term inflammation (even though they were in remission at the time). UC does cause a lot of stress, which affects HPA axis and has lots of implications for mood/cognition.

The mini mental status exam is a very crude and unhelpful test for measuring cognition. It's used as a quick screening tool for suspected dementia that takes only 10 minutes, but is not very useful beyond a quick screening tool in primary care settings.

I don't know if these results are meaningful given limitation of MMSE and very small sample size.

I forgot what else to write....

Post Edited (Jane974) : 1/9/2021 11:09:32 PM (GMT-7)

if you receive steroid the adrenal needs long time while resbuild itself. It can be me 1-2 years too. And effect simikart like in this topic. deconcetration etc.