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I had Covid once - when people considered the pandemic mostly “over” (early this year). The worst was the brain fog which took weeks to clear up.

genewitch 2y ago
i've never had covid, and i am unaware if this is in the literature because it may not be directly caused by the virus; but, did you have a lot of trouble sleeping/staying asleep? Anyone can reply, especially interested if you have a fitness band/watch that tracks sleep and breathing/heartrate, if you noticed that your sleep was greatly disrupted by the disease. I had some weird virus a couple weeks ago that didn't seem like it could possibly be contagious, there was no outward symptoms like coughing or whatever. But one of the symptoms was the inability to sleep. I think i got my personal best "without sleep without any chemicals" - i wasn't eating much because i wasn't hungry - like at all, so no caffeine or sugar, no medications that would cause sleeplessness. I was up very nearly 43 hours. And i had to force myself to go to sleep, because i knew the auditory hallucinations were going to start soon - i get em, they're more annoying than tinnitus, at around the 45-48 hour mark, and they get progressively worse. Prior to being awake 42 hours, i had maybe 4 hours of sleep total, and leading up to that i had been up over 20 hours - so my sleep was completely ruined. Due to the lack of sleep, i cannot remember anything that happened that week, or the week prior. Nor what i read (i read two books), who i talked to or about what. It's just blank - not fuzzy, not hard to recall, just nothing there. How do i remember any details? i was live-posting about how poorly i felt and why, went back and read them, committed my posts to memory.
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- Workaccount2 2y ago
  COVID, at least strains from a few years ago, were known to cause insomnia. But it seems likely it's something that could be from any virus.
  - genewitch 2y ago
    I'm asking if the "brain fog" could be related to insomnia - like maybe the people who have the brain fog aren't used to not sleeping and a few weeks of illness where their sleep schedules are completely ruined may be enough to "throw them off" for months. That is, by what mechanism does covid cause "brain fog" after the fact?
    - monetus 2y ago
      My hunch from having a similar disease that caused brain fog, and having read some of the literature as a layman, is that tiny capillaries are clotting in the brain. Or the lungs. Or wherever your viral load was heaviest maybe? It seems to last up to a year, meaning worsening or new symptoms could manifest. I would hope the plasticity of your brain minimizes that. That symptom, from a different disease, only caused a serious problem after persisting for over a decade. Count on it going away, if you work, and rest, your brain. - Crosses fingers

genewitch 2y ago

i've never had covid, and i am unaware if this is in the literature because it may not be directly caused by the virus; but, did you have a lot of trouble sleeping/staying asleep? Anyone can reply, especially interested if you have a fitness band/watch that tracks sleep and breathing/heartrate, if you noticed that your sleep was greatly disrupted by the disease. I had some weird virus a couple weeks ago that didn't seem like it could possibly be contagious, there was no outward symptoms like coughing or whatever. But one of the symptoms was the inability to sleep. I think i got my personal best "without sleep without any chemicals" - i wasn't eating much because i wasn't hungry - like at all, so no caffeine or sugar, no medications that would cause sleeplessness. I was up very nearly 43 hours. And i had to force myself to go to sleep, because i knew the auditory hallucinations were going to start soon - i get em, they're more annoying than tinnitus, at around the 45-48 hour mark, and they get progressively worse. Prior to being awake 42 hours, i had maybe 4 hours of sleep total, and leading up to that i had been up over 20 hours - so my sleep was completely ruined. Due to the lack of sleep, i cannot remember anything that happened that week, or the week prior. Nor what i read (i read two books), who i talked to or about what. It's just blank - not fuzzy, not hard to recall, just nothing there. How do i remember any details? i was live-posting about how poorly i felt and why, went back and read them, committed my posts to memory.

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Workaccount2 2y ago
COVID, at least strains from a few years ago, were known to cause insomnia. But it seems likely it's something that could be from any virus.
- genewitch 2y ago
  I'm asking if the "brain fog" could be related to insomnia - like maybe the people who have the brain fog aren't used to not sleeping and a few weeks of illness where their sleep schedules are completely ruined may be enough to "throw them off" for months. That is, by what mechanism does covid cause "brain fog" after the fact?
  - monetus 2y ago
    My hunch from having a similar disease that caused brain fog, and having read some of the literature as a layman, is that tiny capillaries are clotting in the brain. Or the lungs. Or wherever your viral load was heaviest maybe? It seems to last up to a year, meaning worsening or new symptoms could manifest. I would hope the plasticity of your brain minimizes that. That symptom, from a different disease, only caused a serious problem after persisting for over a decade. Count on it going away, if you work, and rest, your brain. - Crosses fingers