That's a pretty perfect description of brain fog. Mine is linked to ME/CFS, and began in 1997. Thankfully, I also get the occasional day when it lifts (amazing, isn't it!), but I'm usually around a 2. Unless I have had the audacity to do something completely unreasonable, like go out for coffee, of course - then it's a few days of 4, followed by a couple of 3s.... and we don't talk about 5.
Thanks for posting this. My brain fog is linked to an undiagnosed thing, or a misdiagnosed thing with a constellation of autoimmune symptoms. When it's bad it interferes with my ability to understand that what is happening is brain fog. It helps me to rank my days, too--so I can see quantifiably that it will end, or that things are better than they seem when I'm in the thick of it.
I too returned to Ann Rice recently and it was such a delight--just to get to Pandora--which blew me away!
That's a pretty perfect description of brain fog. Mine is linked to ME/CFS, and began in 1997. Thankfully, I also get the occasional day when it lifts (amazing, isn't it!), but I'm usually around a 2. Unless I have had the audacity to do something completely unreasonable, like go out for coffee, of course - then it's a few days of 4, followed by a couple of 3s.... and we don't talk about 5.
We don't ever talk about 5.
Thanks for posting this. My brain fog is linked to an undiagnosed thing, or a misdiagnosed thing with a constellation of autoimmune symptoms. When it's bad it interferes with my ability to understand that what is happening is brain fog. It helps me to rank my days, too--so I can see quantifiably that it will end, or that things are better than they seem when I'm in the thick of it.
I too returned to Ann Rice recently and it was such a delight--just to get to Pandora--which blew me away!
I had no idea it was so prevalent, seems many people suffer from the beast.
Here's hoping lots of good clear days :)