• chunes@lemmy.world
    5·
    46 minutes ago

    They’re finding that pretty much any virus can cause this indefinitely. Have fun

  • BeUnique@lemmy.zip
    3·
    53 minutes ago

    I feel this one. Sometimes I just wake up and I’m “not myself”. It really sucks because I depend heavily on my personality and communication skills for my job. So when I abruptly have one of those off days it can really fuck me up. I always have this fear that it’ll happen on one of those important work days that I’m doing something like a presentation in front of 60ish engineers and opening up the floor for questions after.

    I have found things that have helped over the years but nothing has completely gotten rid of it. I try to eat right. Not daily but at least the vast majority of the week.

    Omega 3 is a godsend! I also take other supplements that help but omega 3 really does the heavy lifting. That and mythaline blue (fr, look it up).

    The brain fog I’m referring to is severe sometimes. Like I feel like I’m not in my body. I’m more like an observer watching myself with the inability to act normal. Like I’m completely disassociated. It’s fucked up and I hate it…

    Fortunately since I have started taking various vitamins and supplements morning and night, exercising, and eating better it only happens maybe once a month instead of a few times a month…

  • Tonava@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    2 hours ago

    For me it’s autoimmune diseases, I collect them like trading cards, so if it’s something new it’s always just another body part killing itself. It’s also difficult to say what causes what since basically all of them have vague extra symptoms like fatigue. All of them also flare up if I’m stressed and since I’m autistic I’m also constantly encountering normal basic stuff that makes me stressed. And oh the severe depression on top of everything, so I am mentally and physically exhausted and they both feed each other. The conclusion is my body tries to kill itself but fails while I also want to kill myself. 10/10, I was born unfit to live

    • TerdFerguson@lemmy.world
      3·
      36 minutes ago

      Auto-immune autism gang here. You can beat the depression, but the psoriasis, arthritis and bowel inflammation just keeps going and growing.

      I like to think of it this way: I am built to handle being constantly uncomfortable in all kinds of ways. I do like what @BeUnique is offering for brain fog, though, and will try it out.

    • Shelena@feddit.nl
      2·
      43 minutes ago

      Sorry to hear that. I know the feeling of being unfit to live. In the end, it is often more my environment or society that is unfit for me, than me being unfit for life. And your environment can change.

  • abcd@feddit.orgEnglish
    5·
    4 hours ago

    In my case it was stress. And a huge part of this stress was caffeine induced (me drinking 3-7 large cups a day). Stopped drinking, after one week of withdrawal (headache, fatigue) the symptoms went away. I’m without symptoms for a year now!

  • schmorp@slrpnk.netEnglish
    35·
    8 hours ago

    Many people I’m talking to in recent years feel like this. I was expecting to slowly be better by now, but some days are just rough. It’s like someone has turned on “wade through jelly mode” for a large part of the population including me. I’ve so far assumed it’s depression due to the poly-crisis state of the world and just keep wading through the jelly best as I can. I fulfill my part in the crumbles, slowly and with style.

  • Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.appEnglish
    251·
    8 hours ago

    Have you had a sleep study done? I had fairly sudden onset of these symptoms…but it turns out my sleep apnea had been getting progressively worse until the point it was impacting the cleaning cycle by brain goes through. A few weeks on the cpap machine and it’s like I’m 20 years younger again.