I've been having cognitive difficulties for 3 months now.
What exactly is a problem:
Causes
Shortly before this situation started, I was sick with something like a cold with a fever of 39 degrees and severe pain in my eye muscles, I couldn't even move them. I almost recovered within a week, but the eye pain lasted about a month. Apart from the cold I can't remember anything that could have had any effect. I don't drink, smoke or use anything other than the prescribed medication.
At the beginning of visual problems in the ears were strange sensations like twitching and a feeling of fullness that remain to this day, perfectly coincide in time of appearance with other symptoms and as I think there is a connection between them.
Common symptoms
Still have mild eye pain, itchy eyes, feeling of fullness and twitching in the ears, burning on the surface of the head, dizziness when moving or turning the head. Other group of symptoms is itchy testicles and urethra and mild pain in kidney area.
Vision
Difficulty walking fast, I can't see and process everything and it makes me dizzy. I can't look for objects in my apartment because I "can't see", it is difficult to scan and sort out what I see with my eyes.
Double vision, difficulty in recognizing objects, that is, I see several things lying in a pile and have to distinguish for a long time what of them is what, looks like a hard to distinguish mess. As soon as I distinguish one object, other objects or edges of the same object fall out of the zone of mental/visual grasp.
Moving objects leave a trail. Same thing when turning my head, everything is blurred and moves slowly.
The same situation when reading, it is extremely difficult to keep pairs or even single words in focus, it turns out to read only by "scanning". Thus I can read one or two pages and that's the end of my strength, it is almost impossible to read further. Due to insufficient speed and volume of vision, processing can be dizzying when turning or moving.
Executive dysfunction
It is very difficult to write, to choose words both in writing and in speech. It is extremely difficult to stick to one topic of conversation and especially difficult to develop it. There is just an emptiness and a feeling of lost thought. Too often and unexpectedly.
At any activity I constantly forget what I was doing and go to do something else, I realize that I was not busy with it and the previous thing is more important, I remember with great difficulty and just as unsteadily do it with slipping to other things. Especially it concerns complex chains of actions like assignments from the university or for example writing this text, it really requires a considerable investment of strength and self-control, much more than it is usually required.
Poorly oriented on the quatira, poorly remember what to put where and what is where.
Memory
I remember general things, where I live, what is my name, where are the nearest stores and educational institution, but details and names I remember extremely long, with difficulty and obvious understanding and feeling that goes not as it should or usually went.
Difficulties in communication
It is much more difficult to choose words, especially in formal settings where you can not explain familiarly or figuratively in two words followed by "well, you get the point". Just do not remember the right word or combination of words, intentionally. You have to work hard and look for options, which is usually obtained with a noticeable delay and labor. Few people like it, especially if the "slowing down" person is you. Even rarely get to take into account the position, financial status and gender of the person, often began to catch myself thinking that already expressed the moment should have kept silent and in general not to start a conversation even close to this topic. But all this is understood with hindsight. The understanding of what is worth saying and what is not, as it seems to me, correlates with the difficulties of performing multidimensional tasks, which I indicated at the very beginning.
With general talkativeness and wordiness I don't really want to talk to people other than my closest relatives, and not always even with them, because the selection of words really takes effort and doesn't always succeed, they are easily replaced by words similar in meaning that I still remember, but with unfamiliar people it's hard to switch to "well, like" "you know" "this is the thing".
Had several medical tests and scans including MRI, lumbar puncture and serum blood autoimmune panel. All negative.