Covid Brain

[Barsel]

Does it exist.I can't make out if I have it or if it's just old age, but I am doing the most ridiculous things.When I was doing my breakfast yesterday, I poured hot water onto my cereal instead of my coffee, and today I had the milk and a bottle of lemonade open near to each other and I put the lemonade top onto the milk and of course it fell in!Grrr. This is just a few stupid things I've done lately, there are lots more. Have you been doing strange things like this?

[dannyk13]

Sounds like an age thing.

[puzzled54]

Suspect you’re just a bit distracted with all the bad news going on right now

[Peter Pedant]

well brief and as so often - loses some meaning
this has been discussed somewhere recently
try
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324516#difficulty-planning-or-solving-problems

being aware that you are going down the tube is NOT a sign of dementia ( loss of insight )

the other thing that is exerising people - - is
I feel crap after covid - does that mean I have long covid
( and for olds: being ill can set you back a few weeks / months without covid)

[ToraToraTora]

you're not Joe Biden are you?

[Ken4155]

You're just not concentrating, Barsel. Couple of weeks back i squeezed a half sachet of Pedigree Chum over my breakfast instead of over the dogs dry food. Don't usually put the two bowls near each other on the worktop but this one time i had :-((
And, before anyone asks, no i didn't eat the Chum-topped brekky :-)

[Barsel]

I admit like a lot of people I do strange things like walking into a room and then forgetting why I have gone in there, but I always put this down to lack of concentration but, I'm convinced that being locked up all week, every week except from my weekly trip to the supermarket is playing havoc with my brain.

[woofgang]

I used to work with healthy older people who had joint replacements, usually hip joints. Often they would say that post op they felt like they had had flu or something virussy...tired, washed out, forgetful, sometimes poor appetite. We used to tell them that yes they needed to keep moving, do the prescribed exercises and so on but to be kind to themselves as well.
I absolutely get that long covid exists but as a population, I think we have lost the concept of convalescence. the expectation is either ill or well with nothing in the middle.

[Peter Pedant]

sozza sozza
your headline - title is brain covid
which is reviewd in the BMJ here
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3871

good read
BUT you dont say that you have had covid ( kinda sine qua non for post covid stuff )

and then you give a list of things
which upset you
and dont really fit early dementia
which anyway are discussed here
ry
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324516#difficulty-planning-or-solving-problems


I go for just getting old and its autumn

[Peter Pedant]

// I used to work with healthy older people who had joint replacements, usually hip joints.//

I felt absolutely crap after a hemicolectomy and radiotherapy for a year

this is the point of 'is it long covid? and I am old'
the answer seems to be - you are have been ill and everyone your age feels crappier for longer after any illness

[Barsel]

I haven't been ill and haven't had Covid, but in a way, I am blaming it on Covid because this is why I cannot live my usual life, just like many others, and so I feel my brain isn't getting the stimulation it needs. Now Manchester is in level three, and we can't do this and that, what can we do to keep our minds active? I never thought I would get dementia, but feel I am now leading a life that will lead to this.

[Mamyalynne]

Even those with the most active lifestyles and busy brains do daft things like - kettle in the fridge etc.

Try some online games to keep my mind busy or find that book you always meant to finish.

[Barsel]

That's the thing though Mamya. I seem to have a lack of concentration on most things. Reading anything at the moment is difficult, I feel like it's just not sinking in. PP has kindly put some links on for me, but I can't concentrate enough to read them. I'm finding it quite worrying really.

[Arksided]

You probably are being a little abcsent minded and over thinking too much, it happens to the best of us... as Mamya suggest go try do a puzzle or something to take your mind off things.

[woofgang]

What is your diet like? I find if my diet is rubbish I get stupid. maybe try a multivitamin?

[margarettom]

I think it might well exist Barsel, as I seem to be suffering from it too!

[Barsel]

woofgang funnily enough, my diet is very good at the moment because I have more time to prepare and cook. Before, if I was out at lunchtime, I would just grab a sandwich or pasty,but now, I do myself a nice salad or something on toast.I eat chicken, meat or fish for my evening meal and I sit and scrape some new potatoes in the afternoon ready for then. I also take vitamins everyday like I've always done. I think it just seems to be the lack of just seeing another human being to talk to and have banter with, and before you ask, I am on anti depressants also. In fact my GP doubled the dose a few weeks ago, but I haven't noticed any difference.

[Sqad]

Barsel

///////PP has kindly put some links on for me, but I can't concentrate enough to read them. I'm finding it quite worrying really./////

The above could define normality, however getting back to your OP.
Your symptoms could be due to the ageing process.
They could be a signal of impending dementia of some category.
They could be a post viral symptom.
Providing that you are sure that they don't represent a deprresive illness, then I ask.....what treatment is there for the above alternatives? NONE.....apart from treating any symptoms that may present in the future.
Only worry about things that you can do something about and in this case ....que sera sera.

[SparklyKid]

I do it all the time. The worst one is putting rum in my wifes tea instead of my coffee.

[Barsel]

Do you Margaret, do you blame it on your age or the present conditions we are living under?

[Sqad]

Barsel,

Just seen your post and we have crossed over...you are on antidepressants, however my post remains unammended.