Fibro Fog as they call it, is also know as Fibromyalgia fog which effects your memory and can cause word mix-ups and difficulty with concentration.
When I first started to experience it I thought it was due to a particular drug that I was taking for my pain and Fibromyalgia, so I cut down to the lowest dose but that made no difference whatsoever.
Some studies say that it is caused by sleep deprivation which is very common in Fibromyalgia, but others found that poor sleep was not the case.
Additional research though not on Fibromyalgia specifically shows that chronic pain itself may affect the brain. A technology called functional MRI found that in people with chronic pain, a front region of the brain mostly associated with emotion is constantly active. The affected areas fail to shut off when they should, wearing out neurons and disturbing the balance of the brain as a whole.
They suggest a number of cognitive treatments to try to help with this but I find the best is to just ‘pick your best time of day’ to get your jobs done. You soon know when your at your best which for me is either first thing or immediately after my afternoon rest. If I miss my afternoon rest then I know I may as well not bother trying to do anything that uses my brain much, like writing interesting blog posts :))
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Most informative B! Thanks for sharing this…Hopefully, your suffering will ease off….if not entirely ‘disappear’….Hugs! xxx
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Thanks Bushka 🙂
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Thanks Bushka 🙂
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It is awful to suffer from this type of thing, symptoms that are very hard for a doctor to diagnose and even more difficult to treat. As you suggest, sometimes the best one can do is to manage the problem. When I read about Fibro Fog, it describes it as something that does not “come and go” but I suffer with a foggy brain intermittently, when it is like it, it is hard to think and do anything.
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My family tease me I’ve always been like that m, which of course is just their way of saying ‘ not to worry’ when I get things mixed up 🙂
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That is soooooooooo true. I found when I was in the grip of my latest fibro flare-up that it was very hard to concentrate on anything for any length of time.
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I’m really struggling with this at the moment gill (hence the post) and want to do sooooo much but just cannot get my head around it.
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It is so true. I find my best time is early morning when I get up have coffee and take a hot shower. In the afternoon its to late.
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So true free but I do honestly find if I have a couple of hours rest in the afternoon then I have another short burst late afternoon, if I don’t then I just have to forget it. It’s nice to see so many people like me on here. Hope your well, I’ve been struggling the last few months so not been here for a while.
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