My cognition is bad right now, hope this makes sense
So usually I am the "wired" type.
On Friday, when I woke up at beginning of day, it was like a switch had been flipped. I no longer felt wired. HOWEVER my cognition overall felt much poorer than usual. Inability to read more than a sentence at a time for example. Inability to concentrate.
On Saturday, was the same, but worse. Towards the end of Saturday my cognition improved a bit and I also became a bit more wired.
On Sunday (today), when I woke up, it was like the switch had been flipped back - tendency towards feeling wires again, but also my cognitive abilities back to something a bit more normal.
Then, after 7 hours awake, the switch suddenly flipped back! My wiredness mostly disappeared, but also so did most of my cognitive ability. Can't think or read. Cannot at all process people speaking to me.
It feels like, metaphorically, my brain has gone floppy!
Any idea what could be causing this?
I haven't started any new supplements or medications recently, or changed my diet recently.
Usually, PEM or a crash would make me feel more wired and with a lower cognitive ability. It has NEVER EVER made me feel like this before.
It's weird and scary and horrible.
One thing I wondered is because last night I fell asleep before taking my usual dose of melatonin. I wondered if that could be why I felt better this morning - melatonin lowers cortisol, maybe it was low cortisol causing this weird feeling? But I've been taking melatonin every night for months with no problem. And that wouldn't explain why the weird feeling very suddenly came back halfway through today!
Or could it be related to neurotransmitters / other brain chemicals somehow?
Help, anyone?
To clarify, I am not really looking for suggestions of new supplements to try, at least not in this thread, as I find that quite overwhelming. I am really asking if anyone has any idea what may be going on to make this thing happen which is new and very different for me. If I understand what it is then I am more likely to be able to treat it effectively.
Edit: oh, the other possibly relevant thing is that in the last few days, I have been feeling like my stomach is being slow to empty (unusual for me). This feeling started on Thursday I think. It was particularly bad this morning (Sunday morning). Interestingly, the time when I felt like my digestion was starting to move today, was also around the same time as when the switch in my brain flipped to this weird cognitive feeling. Could be a coincidence. I don't know if it could be something to do with energy being redirected from the brain to the digestive system. But then, I'm used to *that* happening on a daily basis - usually digesting food makes me more wired and tired. Not all weird and spaced out.
Edit: to add some more description of what it feels like. It is different to the feeling when taking something that promotes GABA (which I do occasionally). Taking something that promotes GABA feels to me like the wiredness is being covered over with a nice soft cushion. And it also makes you sleepy. This is NOT what this feels like at all. Instead, this feels like somebody has cast a "vanishing spell" upon my wiredness and also upon my cognitive abilities. It feels WORSE than being wired.
Edit: by the way, my heart rate isn't any different to normal.
So usually I am the "wired" type.
On Friday, when I woke up at beginning of day, it was like a switch had been flipped. I no longer felt wired. HOWEVER my cognition overall felt much poorer than usual. Inability to read more than a sentence at a time for example. Inability to concentrate.
On Saturday, was the same, but worse. Towards the end of Saturday my cognition improved a bit and I also became a bit more wired.
On Sunday (today), when I woke up, it was like the switch had been flipped back - tendency towards feeling wires again, but also my cognitive abilities back to something a bit more normal.
Then, after 7 hours awake, the switch suddenly flipped back! My wiredness mostly disappeared, but also so did most of my cognitive ability. Can't think or read. Cannot at all process people speaking to me.
It feels like, metaphorically, my brain has gone floppy!
Any idea what could be causing this?
I haven't started any new supplements or medications recently, or changed my diet recently.
Usually, PEM or a crash would make me feel more wired and with a lower cognitive ability. It has NEVER EVER made me feel like this before.
It's weird and scary and horrible.
One thing I wondered is because last night I fell asleep before taking my usual dose of melatonin. I wondered if that could be why I felt better this morning - melatonin lowers cortisol, maybe it was low cortisol causing this weird feeling? But I've been taking melatonin every night for months with no problem. And that wouldn't explain why the weird feeling very suddenly came back halfway through today!
Or could it be related to neurotransmitters / other brain chemicals somehow?
Help, anyone?
To clarify, I am not really looking for suggestions of new supplements to try, at least not in this thread, as I find that quite overwhelming. I am really asking if anyone has any idea what may be going on to make this thing happen which is new and very different for me. If I understand what it is then I am more likely to be able to treat it effectively.
Edit: oh, the other possibly relevant thing is that in the last few days, I have been feeling like my stomach is being slow to empty (unusual for me). This feeling started on Thursday I think. It was particularly bad this morning (Sunday morning). Interestingly, the time when I felt like my digestion was starting to move today, was also around the same time as when the switch in my brain flipped to this weird cognitive feeling. Could be a coincidence. I don't know if it could be something to do with energy being redirected from the brain to the digestive system. But then, I'm used to *that* happening on a daily basis - usually digesting food makes me more wired and tired. Not all weird and spaced out.
Edit: to add some more description of what it feels like. It is different to the feeling when taking something that promotes GABA (which I do occasionally). Taking something that promotes GABA feels to me like the wiredness is being covered over with a nice soft cushion. And it also makes you sleepy. This is NOT what this feels like at all. Instead, this feels like somebody has cast a "vanishing spell" upon my wiredness and also upon my cognitive abilities. It feels WORSE than being wired.
Edit: by the way, my heart rate isn't any different to normal.
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