I have a roller coaster ride of pain in my head that most of my energy goes into that.It is more than a fog with me,it has changed my personality.I was Always talkative.Sometimes if my pain is lower,it's almost like I'm hyper.
I want to fit everything while my pain is lower,so whoever I'm talking to,I'm on fast forward.Forget about listening.
Most of the time I just get quiet.Then the people talking to me think I'm not listening.I'm fighting the pain and trying to focus on what they're saying.But I don't want to respond.
A couple of reasons for that,the energy and the sound of my voice in my head adds more pain.
One benefit with my husband working at home,he's on the phone alot.I have watched hgtv for a long time because of that,because you can follow without sound.Now with my head the way it is, I watch it.I really do enjoy it anyway.
It's funny,because the times he does want to talk to me,I don't or can't.And when I want to talk to him or am up to maybe going for a quick dinner,he can't.
Then my dr has me going for counseling because I'm on klonopin(for panic attacks that started w/thyroid problems).There I am having to talk,which is hard.Hearing my voice which is harder.
I'm exhausted when I leave there.Between emotions and the talking I'm fried.
I do find a few exceptions.There are a few shows that my husband knows I love.They're series on the movie channels.I get into them so much,that I'm either laughing like an idiot or excited at what's going on and warning them like they can hear me.(never used to do that).
Fortunately for me if I'm up to seeing them when they first air(which I try to because I look forward to them)I can catch them at another time on on demand.
But I am not who I was.Maybe I will be one day again.But I'm not now.It's not from depression.It's the pain.And the pain does make my brain foggy.Because so much goes into dealing with pain.
For me,I try to remain positive.But like other diseases,this has changed my life.I do go online and play some mindgames.It's interesting on some days I suck,on others I surprise myself at how well I'll do.
I miss me.I wasn't perfect,but I was me.
Marge
I also suffer from migranes and have several other ailments causing pain. I got a kick out of your HGTV comment. I too get real involved in watching it when am unable to do other things.
I find it depressing not to be the person I was as well. We entertained, were active, now I find it hard to fix a meal most evenings. I am taking several anti depresessants, fioricet for headaches, and not my liver functions are out of control. Do you know anything about fioricet's control over the liver. I know it has a lot of Tylenol.
Well good luck to you. Mary
Your fog is likely from a damaged hippocampus. Stress and steroids (corticosteroids, not anabolic) cause it. Look up any of Stanford physiologist Robert Sapolsky's lectures on the topic of stress and memory.
If it were me, I'd do yoga and hypnosis for stress/anxiety, and take grape seed extract and fish oil supplements.
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Jamie, I would check out and see if you have any problems with anxiety or depression. I have both and it was brought own by the migrianes. The chance of getting this is high because they are related to each other. You can be told things and when you are asked to repeat them you can't and you in a fog. But somewhat later the person will tell you a list of items and you will be alble to pick out the ones were told to you. This could be what you are talking about, and I would also check a site on depression and see if any of the items listed there you fall under.
I hope this will be of some help and if it isn't you have eliminated some items. I wish the best for you, for I have suffered with migraines since I was nineteen and I am almost sixty and on disabilty now because of them.