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Originally Posted by catra121
Over the last few years, as my RSD has gotten worse...so has my ability to focus, read, think, etc. I'm very forgetful and scatter brained, easily distracted, and it's getting worse. Like...if the tv is on, my boyfriend's talking, and my daughter's playing...I can only hear one of those things at a time...and that's assuming my thoughts don't drift somewhere else where I end up hearing none of them. I'll turn on a movie, then my Facebook notifications will ding...and an hour later I realize I haven't seen ANY of the movie that is on 5 feet away from me. People will ask me questions and I answer a minute or 2 later (when it finally registers with me that I was asked a question). It's all getting worse.
Does anyone have any suggestions on ways to fight this? I feel like my brain is deteriorating. I see the doctor on next Thursday and I plan to discuss this at the appointment...but figured I would ask here and see if you guys had any suggestions or ideas on things I could try/bring up with the doctor.
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Hi Catra,
I also experience difficulties with brain fog so much so that I asked for Neuropsych testing when I was having outpatient rehab years ago after some failed nerve surgery. The results came back saying I had superior intelligence but my attention and processing speed was affected by pain, medication and fatigue. Often things don't go in the first place. I have to make a very conscious effort with those little things like have I locked the car and will always check twice. To and outsider it must look like I have I have OCD but they're the sort of things that are affected by my brain fog and have I taken my medication? So I use a medication weekly dosette. I find since I need the medication (Try and reduce when I am doing better, changed opiods for LDN)and I can't change the pain for now the best way of managing the fog is using cues eg diary, phone alarms, medication dosette,repetition,memory techniques)
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