Can people explain what brain fog feels like??

[ThyroidObsessed]

As above i,d like to know what brain fog feels like in different people and different opinions so i can compare to what mine feels like x

[Lisa254]

Hi I’m not 100% on exactly what it is but for me when I had what I called brain fog I would stop half way through sentences and forget what I was talking about, I would be very forgetful, I couldn’t remember what certain words meant, zero concentration having to read reread and read again and just generally felt muzzy ... very frustrating! What have you experienced?

[ThyroidObsessed in reply to Lisa254]

Hi i feel all the symptoms u have too, plus a detachment feeling on and off and also a crazy brain feeling too...

I cannot tolerate more than 75mcg of levo and when i have more my ft4 goes over range but tsh still mid range or higher.. so im going to trial t3 as my ft3 is low end of range x

[Lisa254]

It can be so frustrating at times!!..Yes I look in the mirror and it’s not me and I felt socially detached too and the scarey thing is that I was ok with that (I wouldn’t the normally!)

I have had a lot of acupuncture it has really help and a lot of these symptoms have now subsided but I have hyperthyroidism I’m now border hypo but I think some symptoms cross over. I’m sure someone who is hypo on here maybe able to help with more advise 😊

[Rmichelle]

Hi i am now hypo but still on titration doses of carbimazole but have suffered from brain fog all the way throught and i have to agree it is forgetting sentences halfway through and also fir me just forgetting to do something or not absorbing information and doing things without thinking-something i have just done is: pooring some milk in a cup thinking it was juice and filling it up with water, only realised this when filling halfway with water, ooh and forgetting how to spell is another one.i try to laugh about it otherwise you would cry!!.😊

[spongecat]

Somebody asked me if I was drunk once because I slurred words. I now realise that it was probably caused by the fat, scalloped tongue that I had. I thought everybody had scalloped tongues, after all you don't go up to friends and strangers asking them to stick out their tongue to see if they had crimped edges too!

Also had the old groping for words, simple words and feeling a right lemon when trying to converse with people and coming to a full stop or just trailing off......

Before my husband (and myself!) understood what caused "the fog" he used to get quite impatient with me and bark "Come on spit it out"...or finish sentences for me which I found upsetting.

[Rmichelle in reply to spongecat]

Oh spongecat-snap it is just like that, i get my words the wrong way around in the sentence and also words come out wrong and i go to say one word but it comes out into another word ive just invented!! Crazy, my 12 year old used to laugh at me and it used to make me hurt but not anymore i just call myself a silly cow and get on with it!!😊😊😊

[humanbean]

If someone healthy is given a puzzle to work out they may try various routes to get from the start to the finish with the correct answer. So, they may try to go from A to B to C to D to get the answer. If that doesn't work they may try A to B to E to F to G Or they may finally get the right answer when they go from A to B to H to I.

With brain fog it feels as if getting from A to B is impossible. You may know that it is possible but you just can't think how it is done because your brain simply won't focus or you've forgotten how to do it. The steps C, D, E, F, G etc don't even come into your thinking with brain fog - you never get that far and have forgotten that such things are even possible.

I've come unstuck on simple addition, subtraction and multiplication many times. And division? What's that?

[Kipsy]

At its worst, just before diagnosis, my brain was slow and ached. I was still teaching part time and marking pupils’ work took twice as long as normal. I spoke slowly, I found reading a story to my class hard, I struggled to remember pupils’ names from one week to the next and one day I looked down at the lesson plan I’d prepared at home and couldn’t read what it said. My world felt like it was collapsing. I could just about cope with daily life but any curve balls threw me right out.

Nine months on, I am back to being fairly on the ball and sharp. I can think quickly and clearly and am more articulate. The levothyroxine made my brain improve rapidly. I still struggle with other symptoms such as apathy and fatigue but the fog has lifted thank goodness.