CV and mad panic behaviour

[Lods]

To quote a very much used argument to debunk a lit of things, correlation doesn't equal causation.

I suspect the majority of covid positive people are acutely aware of it, and as a consequence attribute things to it.

I have a persistent cough at the moment despite not having tested positive, or having even been sick.

Is it covid?  Or is this normal and im like that?

Not sure.  I have my days when my memory works well.  I have my days when I can't remember simple terminology.

The factors could be illness, or it could be stress from seeing your footy team cough up a game from a winnable position or it could be covid fog.

You know the fog that has seen everyone reaching for a treat or a coffee or a tea at 3.30 every day since i can remember?

Im not yet 40 but close enough.  Have noticed the last few years this has been getting worse.  Is it lock down?  Is it the stress of a pandemic?  Did I get cpvid that caused it?  Or am I just getting on a bit and feeling my mortality?

Or is it simply what happens to people.  People are variable in their performance.  Brain works well some days and not so well the other.  I imagine that a proper neuro doctor would be able to explain why covid fog can't be a symptom of covid because they should effectively follow a change in physiology to match the degradation of memory but you would only be able to benchmark against a before and after brain scan which limits the pool to people already having neurological issues and ergo can't really draw any meaningful data.

It may be as you say Thry...
But then again it may be that there is an issue with the virus affecting the memory and thought processes of some of us.

The effects of the virus are still largely not understood.
But the 'covid fog' is certainly something that is being looked at.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what...1030822076

Covid symptoms vary greatly from individual to individual
The length of symptoms also varies.

I can only go on my own experience, and a task I'd normally find realtively easy, and not one I've had trouble with before, became frustratingly complicated.