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Minimize alcohol use – very light or occasional use is probably harmless but anything more will hinder recovery.Quit tobacco use – smokers will never recover as fully as they might if they were to quit.Things you can do to minimize your post-COVID-19 brain fog: This involves analyzing your lifestyle habits and discarding the ones hindering recovery and implementing ones that promote brain and nerve healing. While there is no cure and no breakthrough treatment that can speed post-COVID-19 recovery, there is much a person can do to maximize the chances of fuller recovery. Patients with pre-existing dementia or mild cognitive impairment are less likely to recover fully. There is a small segment of patients of all ages that experience brain fog persistently for up to 2 years (as of the time of blog post). The good news is that the vast majority of patients with post-COVID-19 brain fog recover completely over the course of 6 to 9 months. How long does brain fog last after COVID-19 is treated? The information probably gets there eventually, but not as reliably as before the virus disrupted the network. In real life situations, it might take you more repetitions to remember a person’s name or a new phone number than it did before, or you forget about assignments and appointments more now than before the infection. Imagine a fleet of delivery trucks suddenly losing their central dispatch – the packages will probably still be delivered but perhaps not in the most efficient way. A COVID-19 infection and its inflammatory aftermath jolt the intricately coordinated neural networks in the brain and disrupt the flow of information. You can think of the brain fog as a networking problem, with communication between the various parts of the brain becoming compromised by either direct injury from the virus itself or from immune system overactivation that leaves a simmering but gradually fading inflammation behind in the brain. With perhaps 1 in 4 Rhode Islanders having been infected with COVID-19, this means that you or someone you know may be experiencing post-COVID-19 brain fog. Recent studies have found that entirely new, painful, small fiber neuropathies and new cognitive impairment can be triggered by COVID-19 infection in patients of any age, even in those that had only mild symptoms at the time of the infection. Likewise, a person with mild memory impairment of aging will likely find themselves with a significant decline in thinking abilities for several months after recovering from the initial infection. If a person already had nerve pain due to a neuropathy (a general term for nerve dysfunction) or spine injury, a case of COVID-19 was quite likely to aggravate the pain and leave it worse than before. There are many possible contributors, including post-COVID-19 syndrome (also called “Long Haul COVID”).ĬOVID-19 causes neurologic symptoms in two ways: by worsening pre-existing symptoms and by triggering entirely new symptoms. This “brain fog” is one of the most common concerns that patients of all ages come to me with these days. Do you feel as though your thinking is less sharp and your memory muddier today than it was before a COVID-19 infection during the pandemic? If so, you are not alone.