Hip
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Since catching COVID just over a year ago and developing some long COVID on top of existing ME/CFS, I've found that whilst ME/CFS gives me brain fog, long COVID for me seems to produce what you might call "brain numbness".
This brain numbness feels like having your brain mildly anaesthetised: I mean there is less focus on thoughts, less emotions, less intensity of ideas, less interest in doing things, just a placid but feeble state of consciousness.
This brain numbness I developed after COVID seems different to my ME/CFS brain fog. With brain fog, there is still an intensity of ideas and constructive thinking, but the thought processes are hampered by the constant presence of the "fog" in your brain. Brain fog is like driving a car in the fog: you know where you want to get to, but your journey is made slower and more difficult because of the fog.
But with brain numbness, the intensity of thoughts and ideas have vanished at source, or at least become lessened. This is like not really knowing where you want to drive to in the first place.
Can anyone else who already had ME/CFS and then later developed long COVID relate to this?
This brain numbness feels like having your brain mildly anaesthetised: I mean there is less focus on thoughts, less emotions, less intensity of ideas, less interest in doing things, just a placid but feeble state of consciousness.
This brain numbness I developed after COVID seems different to my ME/CFS brain fog. With brain fog, there is still an intensity of ideas and constructive thinking, but the thought processes are hampered by the constant presence of the "fog" in your brain. Brain fog is like driving a car in the fog: you know where you want to get to, but your journey is made slower and more difficult because of the fog.
But with brain numbness, the intensity of thoughts and ideas have vanished at source, or at least become lessened. This is like not really knowing where you want to drive to in the first place.
Can anyone else who already had ME/CFS and then later developed long COVID relate to this?
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