Brain Fog all day long?

[SW25]

Does anybody have brain fog? or feel like they just can't wake up? I'm thinking some of the nerves in my head are being affected by the Cervical Myolopothy, or could be from the Zolpidem I take for sleep?

Any answers would be most appreciated.

[SheilaDugan Administrator]

I often find those type of symptoms after a few hectic days, by the third day I can't seem to stay awake or move off my recliner. There are days I turn off the cell phone and hardly move. I don't particularly feel pain or any symptoms. Just kind of like you said or as I say a couch slug I can't move I am just too tired to do much at all. Hope that helps.

[theste02]

I have brain fog all the time. I cannot concentrate, and I feel faint and dizzy. Also my head sweats profusely. Just my head and neck. Nothing else sweats does anyone know why that happens?

[Sally8 in reply to theste02]

I read constantly to try to find the explanation of my condition. I found this information which may apply to the head and neck sweating. Of course, you need your Neurologist or Neurosurgeon to answer your question because there is more than one possibility. The Wiley Online Library has an article from The International Journal of Clinical Practice called "Autonomic Dysreflexia and Sweating" by N.H. Cox published 22 Jun 2009. In it, the author says, "older patients referred to me with hyperhidrosis of the whole face and head have most commonly had features of autonomic dysreflexia for which the only explanation appears to be degenerative cervical spinal disease. In such cases, the rise in blood pressure which is temporarily associated with bouts of sweating is diagnostically useful, is usually modest, asymptomatic and self-limiting once any trigger (typically painful bladder symptoms) has been addressed. (skipped unrelated content) Hyperhydrosis (which means sweating) may occur above the lesion as a consequence of posttraumatic syringomyelia (this is a lesion in a certain place in the spinal cord) (sometimes with numbness of the affected areas and sometimes several years after the trauma, and posterior fossa tumors are also in the differential diagnosis. 2009 Blackwell Publishing Int J Clin Pract, July 2009, 63, 7, 1118. I recommend talking to your doctor about this symptom so that he/she can make sure it's not an early warning sign of something more serious. Autonomic dysreflexia can be serious. If you can purchase a blood pressure monitor and keep a diary of your blood pressure, especially during these sweating spells, it may help your doctor(s) figure out what's going on.

Best Regards,

Sally

[theste02]

Ok, I will do that, thank you for your reply.