HELP! Brain fog, fatigue, extreme short term memory loss, feeling spacey 24/7.

hi wondering if you have found any help with your brain fog and zombie like feeling...my 11 year old son has recently started complaining of derealization, brain fog and extreme exhaustion...he is either having a derealization "episode", sleeping, laying around with his eyes closed cause he hates the foggy feeling or being depressed and anxious about when the next episode is gonna hit...it went from once in a while, to daily, to multiple times a day...no depression or anxiety prior to the derealization... he hasnt been able to go to school or leave the house...the light bothers his eyes and he just always feels "weird or in the dreamlike state"... i feel so bad for him...dr prescribed paxil and on the sec day he had horrible episodes like hallucinating and yelling, way worse than before meds...we stopped meds immediately...i dont know what to do...also, dr says he is hypoglycemic so we have been dealing with that but doesnt think thats causing this just probably making it worse? any ideas or suggestions!? thanks

I've had a very similar experience and the only thing I have been able to come up with is catatonic depression

I'm having the exact same stuff,just the exact same not even one symptom more or less,it's driving me insane.

I can remember when i was younger i could concentrate easily at what the teacher says eithout even paying full attention and when i return homebi could remember it all perfectly.

Like you mentioned,I wake up in the morning feeling a little drowsy,i think to myself it's perfecty normal because i just woke up,but i have the exact same feeling for the rest of the day.

Also from an educational perspective,I feel like I have no interest in studying,I can't study for 20 minute straight without getting distracted,I just can't sit,I feel like i want to move around for no apparent reason.

I'm 15 years old

I NEED SOME SERIOUS HELP.

I have been suffering with extreme brain fog for 6 months straight now. I woke up with an extreme migrane and suffered for 2 days before going to th hospital and getting Tylenol and feeling better from my headache but my brain fog and dizziness never went away. I have changed my diet, I have taken more supplements such as B-Complex and B12 Vitimans. I am at my wits end. I have been to neurologists, endocrinologists, and even a rheumatologist. They said it might be Fibromyalgia but seems like something different. Any insight?

I think you all might have hypothyroidism, not always easy to detect by bloodtest

I'm 18 and this has been plagueing me since 15. I've been fighting it for so long but the memory problems are getting worse and worse with every passing day. I'm not even going to remember this post within a week unless I remind myself via a sticky note! I'm out of options on what to do and I just want to know if anyone has found anything that helps. Please.

Hello,

I just registered to comment on this.

I have the same symptoms since some years ago, but just intermitently.

Usually it happens to me after a night out, but it lasts always about 2 weeks, when it slowly fades away. It feels like some kind of depersonalization. I wouldn't say it's cfs, as I don't suffer any physical pain or suffering.

I can see myself interacting more "automatically" with people. Usually they don't even realise, and I can socialize with them. But as I said, I feel it's "automatic", like I'm not thinking what I'm doing or saying and I'm just watching what my body is doing. It's really complicated to explain.

Does somebody from here found a reason for this and a solution?

I changed almost all my habits and diet, but it still persist. I see that this can happen even if I'm not drinking, and sometimes I'm not sleeping at all for a while and I'm not experiencing this. After all this time I still couldn't find the 'trigger'.

I'm a bit late in replying but I just joined this site but I just want to ask what diagnosis did you last receive on your condition? I suffer from the same set of symptoms and I've taken antidepressants during the past 6 years with little benefit but they don't help address the anxiety and other symptoms.

My condition has worsened and just finished 35bsessions if tms therapy (transcranial stimulation) and it did not help me a bit in fact my depression anxiety and insomnia are worse with thoughts more thoughts of giving up.

I am really struggling and presently not working looking at having to deal with a divorce as well.....

It sounds a lot like Fibromyalgia. That comes up as negative on all tests. But you would have pain and you don't mention any pain??

Dear Taylor,

I think I understand what you are talking about!

It surely sounds like depression but don't think all depression is long term and deep. A 6 month doctor's prescription of Wellbutrin, a good rest time and Dr. Caroline Leave's book "Switch On Your Brain" did miracles for me.

As a good doctor described to me; our brain, just like a normal muscle, gets harmed if under constant pressure. Pressure from strained relationships over a long time, even being in a cross-cultural scenario for years or other stress etc. This influences the chemicals between the neurons in our brain that influence the signals sent and can result in this "fog". One major result of depression is sleeping problems.

Hi my daughter is 17 and the end of March this year,  all of a sudden she started having a bunch of symptoms  at the same time. The  symptoms included extreme throbbing headache on the upper right side of her head combined with fogginess, fatigue, memory loss, dizziness, unable to recall words, sudden weight gain.  She was in an upper level calculus course and she couldn't do the math anymore. Long story short she had the brain MRI, saw twi neurologists, extensive bloodwork, walking EEG,  psychologist, psychiatrist, you name it. Nobody had any answers for her. The psychiatrist suggested that she see an osteopath. Now she is at college and she is so unhappy because of all of the symptoms that appeared so suddenly won't go away. I don't know what else to do for her as a mother.  My father was a physician, and I grew up in a medical environment. So I'm typically pretty good at getting her to see the right people but not in this case so any help I would greatly appreciate .  She is such a bubbly, happy, optimistic girl and this has really put a strain on her life. 

Hey man,

Sorry to hear about your problems, and I can sympathize for you because at various points throughout the past 10 years I have experienced these symptoms for, at points, months on end. Thus, based on these symptoms (and I am definitely not a doctor), I would say that you have either Addison's Disease, or some kind of adrenal functionality problem. I have been diagnosed with this condition for about 10 - 12 years, and I know the dramatic impact that this condition can have on a person's ability to function well on a day-to-day basis. This condition is difficult to determine through medical tests, it is primarily managed through conversing with your doctor about your symptoms. Obviously, I'm not sure if this is the case, but as someone with the condition who knows the dramatic improvement that comes through getting on the proper daily medication, I couldn't help but throw out the possibility. Hope this helps.

Are any of you guys here experience a worsening of your symptoms over the month/years? 

My latest episode began in late 2014 and lasted till early 2017. My memory was impaired so was my concentration and constant anxiety. Now in spring 2017 till late summer of this year I felt a lot better and was almost symptom free. But 2 weeks ago it all got worse again and the symptoms are a lot stronger then with my last spell. I`m beginning to wonder if my sleep problems are having an effect on this all. My sleep is terrible. No problems falling asleep but I don`t get more then 3 hours of deep sleep at all. Wake up every night at the same time, between 2.40am -3.20 am. After that falling asleep becomes real difficult and even if I manage I wake up at least another 3 times before having to get up at 6am.

Hi, I have just registered to this forum and wanted to reply to this post. I have been having similar problems in my life as well, I am a 28 year old female from Newcastle Upon Tyne in the UK. I have a Full Time Job working in a Care Home and love my job. Let me explain how it all started.... 

It was quite a few years ago back in 2014 when I was in a relationship, in an mental abusive relationship, he would start by checking my phone and keep asking me questions about my day and who I was talking to etc. He even near the end started putting his hands around my neck and picked me up by the throat and throw me back down and claimed it was to calm me down when in fact he was egging me on to do something to him. That took it's toll on me and I left him 4 times, believe me the 4th time was the last and had to get police involved as well. He denied everything at first but then admitted to the police he was in fact keep trying to get in touch with me etc. Ever since then I've never wanted another relationship. He made me feel worse about myself.

Anyways cutting to present day, in the last few years I have always had my fair share of memory loss and it wasn't that back back then but it had progressively gotten worse, after the memory loss started I started to become more and more tired, I would wake up every morning really tired, I had loads of sleep as well. So I decided to stay up a bit later than normal and it would make me worse, I could sleep 24 hours and still feel exhausted. Then I would become weak, I started to hardly eat anything as I knew my weight once again was becoming an issue with me, I was nearly at the place I wanted to be then everybody was keep saying to me "You're getting too skinny. you need to put more weight on. You're looking gaunt in the face" etc etc etc.

I feel like no matter which way I go with my weight nobody will be happy but I don't want to be like everybody else, I want to feel happy about my body and it's not happening. I always have trouble now eating meat, drinking milk etc because of where it all comes from so I become Vegan a few months ago, and although my parents and friends around me eat all of that stuff they keep saying you need all of that to survive and it's going straight through one ear and out the other.

What i'm trying to say is there is a big change in my life that getting worse and I really need help finding out what it is. Some day I could be lounging around and I enjoy that sometimes but then I get pains in my arms and legs easy from doing literally nothing. I get headaches all the time, I am (sorry for the too much information) but always at the toilet, I have pains in my lower stomach all the time and someday I just cry over nothing and other times I feel like I need to snap out of it but it never happens. I'm sorry for all of this rambling but I hope this give you guys a good idea. 

P.S I am easily agitated and angry as well like I could hit the wall xxx