How do you deal with the 'fog'?

Amber, great topic, and thanks for addressing it! I've always been a bit "spacey" but lately it's been pretty bad. I locked myself out of my car today while going into work I'm a driver. Generally I need my car to get my job done. Thankfully I was training in someone else's car today, so no worries. But I can't tell you how many times I've done this same stupid thing - leaving the keys on the passenger seat and then locking the doors. Then looking at them, just like a stunned bunny (your words - nice image, thank you.)

Like Tricky, I find that my balance tends to be worse during these foggy times. I find myself stumbling up and down stairs, spinning (sometimes physically, sometimes thru vertigo,) falling, tripping, you name it. I laugh it off but it's embarrassing. I don't feel like an adult when these things happen, I feel like an idiot.

I don't have an answer to this yet but I'm sorry you're experiencing it and working on building a business while experiencing it. I'm guessing that plenty of sleep might help some. I muck up even more if even the slightest bit tired. (And, like others here, I also forget words that I know. I mean, I forgot the name of "water," for goodness sake.) It certainly looks as if lack of good sleep is one sure way of bringing on extra "fog." That means naps, if you can possibly squeeze them in, even if when you get home.

Like others here, I sometimes find that switching to something else for 15 or 20 minutes helps to clear some of the cobwebs. Like doing a puzzle, reading something non-irritating, writing something fun...something to get away from the tight wad of necessary but missing info that is enclosing your mind.

Me too! I feel like a fool, reading a book and not remembering a thing about it, or what happened! Duh! But if I start rereading it, I know it.

For me, I always worry about early alzheimer's. Surely feels like it sometimes. I mean, my 82 year old mother remembers EVERYTHING and I'm left stuttering around for a word to something basic. Embarrassing!

I very much like the notion of a brain vacation. I think there should be a special place on this site where smart notions like this are placed prominently so we can access them when we're in a fog and need quick access to them. If I see this notion and the description, I'll "get it" and feel much better. Thank you for coining it. You're exactly right.

Amber, today I fell twice; lost my coffee, tea, earring, reading glasses, and stylus. I forgot something on my list, and my aunt went with me to drive me. However, being stubborn, I took charge while she put things in the buggy. Who knows… I am having more and more of these episodes. My neurologist did not offer much hope.

Quick reply - maybe napping is easier during the day because inflammation level seems to go up at night and in early morning. Just like when you feel so much worse when you're sick early in the morning and in the evening/night. As to why that is, I do not know. Pull of the moon's gravity affecting our cells and fluids? Don't know.