I lost my name recall during the COVID years. I can hardly remember anybody’s name anymore. Both people in real life and celebrities and such. I used to be able to name any face I’ve seen. Now it’s just, “that guy”.
You’re also just older.
I think it seriously harmed my short term memory.
I got COVID pretty badly and for a month or two after I just felt like I had no gas in my tank - I’d try to vacuum the house, for example, and I couldn’t get through it in one go. I thought “Oh, this is that fatigue they’ve been talking about.” But then that sort of wore off and I no longer lacked the energy to do stuff like that, except I just couldn’t bring myself to do those things. I’d be sitting there thinking “I really need to vacuum,” but it was like an insurmountable hurdle to go to the closet and get the vacuum out. Once I did, I could do the house without issue.
One of my employees had COVID about the same time as me, and we were talking about it when we were both back. Damned if she didn’t start describing the same sort of psychological fatigue-like thing. I was dumbfounded.
It lasted like another couple months and slowly went away, but man it was a bitch.
I had a little fatigue but no long term issues thankfully. I live life like the latter part of your post though. Sometimes just making a phone call or carrying something across the house to put away feels like the most difficult thing in the world. On days when I get a spark and jump that first hurdle, I have to ride that wave the rest of the day. I’d love if that went away, but I’ve just learned to cope some.
My FiL has been suffering from long COVID for a long time now. Gets extremely fatigued easily and has some latent achiness. It’s super sad to see, and nobody has been able to really help him.
Ugh, that sucks for both of you. Sorry to hear it.
Lost my sense of smell for a while. It gradually returned and some things tasted funny for some time.
Bigger problem was that I started dozing off if anything got boring. Half an hour drive to work became risky and on some days i needed ways to cause myself paint to stay focused. It lasted for 1,5 years.
This tissue loss could result from reduced oxygen supply or severe immune system inflammation during the infection. Conversely, a few studies reported localized increases in gray matter volume.
Cystic fibrosis also shows an increase in gray matter in several areas of the brain, by a pretty considerable amount too. The hypothesis with CF is that it’s due to hypoxia, I wonder if this the same or similar phenomena.
I wish there was an active community for nootropics or something similar there’s a lot of neuropharmacology papers I want to share
just post them in some science or health community, depending on how close it gets to people’s everyday-lifes
No…
Post it… Here?
It’s wild how different the symptoms and effects of covid can be. I know people who have been asymptomatic, a few died, or have had major long-term health issues. Even the regular cases of it vary from a light cold to a bad flu.
A virus that really highlights how different genetics and overall heath affect each person who gets infected.
