Debilitating symptoms. Brain fog...extreme memory loss...spacey 24/7!

I'd like to post a sort of PSA / poll:

For those of you who:

-Do NOT have Lyme disease (or are unsure)

...do you have any metal dental fillings?

I've recently seen studies linking amalgam dental fillings (aka. silver fillings, metal fillings) with brain fog, memory loss, mysterious body aches and pains, digestive issues, etc. due to the fact that these fillings are 50-60% MERCURY (what the actual hell is our FDA thinking.....). 

Extended exposure to this mercury can cause low levels of mercury toxicity, which is a very potent neurotoxin and can silently contribute to MANY of the issues we are describing in this forum. 

Please reply and us know. I have metal dental fillings and I've slowly but surely been getting worse over the years regarding these brain fog symptoms, among the others. This may be a solid lead in helping us get to the bottom of this!

Hi Taylor!

I have been having very sinilar symptoms for the past 8 months. Very spacey, dizzy type feeling, really bad short term memory and feeling like I'm in a dream. I started having panic attacks etc and getting extremely anxious.

I have been to cardiologist and a neurologist and had scans etc but everything is fine. Blood tests all come back normal as well.

After seeing my neurologist, he sent me to a neuropsyciatrist. The neuropsyciatrist was very thorough and is quite confident this is all steming from anxiety and will go away once that is treated.

I'm trying to get on top of it now and feel confident I will get better. The neuropsyciatrist is confident I will make a full revovery too!

Hi everyone. Just wanted to share my experience and share what I feel like can be done to get over this. The way i see it is brain fog is just a very tired mind that has gone into protection mode. We all do so much thinking and give brain fog SO much attention, and what people dont realise is that this is what makes it worse. This is the fuel. Being a sufferer of brain fog myself i know its hard to just try live life without thinking about it. But you have to! Dont fuel it. Live your life normally. Eat healthier. Exercise and most importantly FORGIVE YOURSELF. Dont be annoyed if you don't feel 100%. The great thing is it is beatable and fixable from anytime in life. So start now. Stop googling symptoms. Stop youtube binging through brain fog videos. Stop talking to people about it. Cut off the fuel it needs.... and start focusing on YOU. Hot baths, massages, yoga, breathing exercises. Distraction techniques! I know it sounds easy, but i know how hard it is. But we have a community here so we all know what youre going through. Good luck peeps

Just found something new- discovered I had extreme vitamin D-3 deficiency via a bloodtest.  Started a mix of prescription strength + otc  vit D-3 supplementation and a week in I already feel like a different person.  No brain fog, don't feel like I was run over by a truck in the morning when I wake up, no anxiety or depression since after about day 3, I have energy and motivation instead of feeling lethargic and uninspired.   

I'm not just going to assume all of my symptoms are gone this early on, but I'm definitely feeling all around encouraged.  I'm also encouraged from reading that some of my body pain that I constantly have may go away as time goes on.  

After researching this subject for a while, there's definitely a lot of things that can cause bad brain fog, but if you haven't specifically had your Vitamin D3 levels checked then you should.  My doctor had given me blood test before, but I had to specifically ask for this test as well as a couple of others that like lyme, b6 and b12 thinking that at least I was narrowing the field.  So glad to finally find something!

Sincerely, Dawna 

I suffer the same symptoms as everyone on here and in fact, so many people on this post have described it in a better way than I ever could.

The brain fog, spaceyiness, memory blips, word slurring, looking at my hands in front of me thinking they almost ‘don’t look real’ (if that makes sense). The environment seems far away, I feel robotic, I bump into things and move around differently sometimes, when people talk to me I can hear them perfectly but for some reason I just can’t take on board what their saying straight away. I get a very very very mild headache but more of a pressure/dull feeling in the front of my head. I have floaters in my left eye which appeared suddenly also and various muscle twitches (which have now all gone).

Your all going to hate me for saying this as I know there’s a lot of denial on it - but disassociation issues such as DR and DP are textbook anxiety symptoms. People who suffer such strange mental and physical feelings simply can’t believe that it’s anxiety that is causing all of this! Who knew it could?! Well it can and it does.

I though oh no I have MS, ALS, Parkinson’s, severe mental problem, metal poisoning, Candida, Lyme (which is rare here in the U.K. by the way).  Every week there was a new cause but I couldn’t face the reality of the fact I had a panic attack followed by a month and a half of sleep deprivation (3 -5 hours of poor broken sleep every night - that’s a lot of stress on the body!).

Ive noticed there’s a trend emerging in 80% of these comments. The symptoms get described and then what gets mentioned within the post usually follows along the lines of - eg: ‘oh and by the way I suffered anxiety attacks when I was young’ or ‘I had a panic attack’ or ‘I was studying really hard for exams’ or ‘I had a break up’ or ‘I was ill’ or ‘after pregnancy...’ etc etc Anxiety is related and involved in all of these life activities. Even if you don’t know it you can be subconsciously anxious or ‘on edge’.

As a lot of you know, when your threatened or anxious the front part of your brain goes ‘on holiday’ as I like to say. It says ‘screw this, I’m having a break’ and it slows down to help ease the threat. DR m/DP can happen during the moment of fight or flight but unfortunately for some people (aka us poor lot) it lingers and leaves the brain in a heightened state of alert. Which makes sense as when I felt like this if someone dropped a pencil I’d jump 2 ft in the air and spin around wide eyed like ‘what the hell was that??!’ So yeah, heightened senses.

Let me say this...

IT WILL GO.

You have to train the brain.

You don’t hear success stories hardly on the internet of these forums because everyones quick to come here to type in their problems and ask for help but then when they feel better they forget all about the posts on the internet and don’t want to revisit them. So we’re left hanging with all these negative posts with no follow up so it seems it’s hopeless.

Acceptance helps. Carrying on doing what you normally did before. Exercise, meet friends, cinema, dates, holidays whatever nothing bad will happen to you, DR and DP cannot hurt you or cause you brain damage.

Diet. Eat a clean diet, no gluten, less diary, Vit D, Omega 3, B12, Magnesium Oil (or Glycinate for oral consumption) and lots of pure mineral water. Get enough sleep also, before 10PM if you can for 8 hours and get into a routine even on weekends.

It all helps.

I haven’t defeated it yet (7months deep) but it’s eased off and I do forget it’s there most the time which I’m hoping my brain will relax more.