Howdy everyone this is bobcat,

Well MS may affect us all differently but the one thing that I know most of us CAN relate to and have in common is the infamous, or maybe it is just famous, COG FOG!

You know the attack of the "killer ummmmmmmmmm's" that is what i call it.

I haven't been fully dx with MS, not had a recent MRI either or a LP. But like so many other things on this forum this is a point where i can truely relate to ya'll!

It helps to laugh about it b/c otherwise it just makes u want to cry!

My experience with Cog Fog is that when I'm typing or speaking all of a sudden the little goober words suddenly skip from my throat to the tip of my tongue and stay just out of reach.

It takes olympic style acrobatics (mentally) to catch up with the goobers and alais sometimes it is just impossible and i have to either get frustrated or just laugh about it.

I used to be able to "compensate" for it by talking around in circles for HOURS or just repeat myself over and over and over and over... you get the point anyway, when I'm off the medicine that I was taking for MG the cog fog is horrible. I'm a sputtering Ummmmmm-a-holic!

Anyway i have noticed that when it is 3 am and the spasms in my muscles wake me up (which always happens when I'm not on the MG meds or during a flare up).

i get up out of bed and come over to the computer and i can write some of the most eloquent stuff that you ever saw! See: my thread on living the high life in limbo land. http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread40688.html


then when I wake up in the morning, all is forgotten like a weird dream, but it was a good dream b/c for a moment i had relief from the cog fog.

Each morning like the swan princess the cog fog (which is about as thick as the London Fog and as reliable too) comes rollin' back in!


Anyway, I am interested to know if anyone else has had similar (or different) experiences with Cog Fog!

Wack! the ball and chain are in your court!

have a foggy oggy day! (hopefully not but i know most of us do!