What..?

Yes, I know, I have written about it several times before but it is easy to repeat your troubles when you are isolated in your own little chronical world, and this is something that is often a big problem.

I'm talking about brain fog, which occurs when the brain is so tired of parrying all the side effects of one's diagnoses that it simply shut down.

One can sometimes anticipate this as it often occurs after a longer relapse of e.g. RA, i.e. when the rheumatic pain has been so intense that you have not been able to relax or get any sleep. You have simply been engrossed in pain for a long time.

But often the brain fatigue sneaks up on you, especially when several of one's diagnoses have decided to work together at the same time. Concentration decreases, it becomes harder and harder to sleep, memory is blown away and irritation increases.

The brain just: Sorry we're closed!

People around you notice that you change your personality on these occasions, you become absent-minded, slow in thought, have difficulty focusing and get a slightly irritated voice. It often gets so bad that you lose words and find it difficult to communicate both verbally and in text, and this means problems if you have a job where this is central.
You have a constant headache, are sensitive to light and do not tolerate certain sounds. Fatigue makes your thinking process slow and you often has a hard time gathering your thoughts at all.

All this makes you very sensitive to stress, which is a big reason for the less attractive transformation into a naughty bitch.

So what people see from the outside is only a fraction of what goes on inside.

Suffering from brain fatigue can be sporadic depending on the severity of the problem, but it can also be constantly present to varying degrees and it then becomes like living in a hamster wheel. You have to fight to keep the concentration up which means that the brain is further strained which increases the fatigue and so on.

Another thing that people will notice and which is a bit awkward is that fatigue does not give such a fresh look. Pale, dull and with dark circles under the eyes in size class with Saturn does not make a woman happy, and there is no energy to spend time improving the misery with makeup. Sure, you try, but the result is a bit like trying to turn Quasimodo into Grace Kelly....lol..

Well, it was yet another take on the subject of brain fatigue from my horizon. Maybe someone recognizes themselves…if their brain allows it..lol..

Take care out there...

                              

XOXO