Posted by mike lynch on September 10, 2004, at 1:17:03
In reply to Re: seeking insight with brain fog/depression/sleep... » mike lynch, posted by SDA on September 10, 2004, at 0:17:07
> > I've had an eeg...and it showed up nothing..I did have a feeling of pressure being applied to my brain but it seemed to occur when I came off ssri's..and it then seemed to subside..in a few weeks.. I have horrible brain fog..I can't seem to think..especially while writing and essay I just can't gather my thoughts..they just aren't there..it's like there locked up in a box and won't come out...That is all..you're symptoms you'd described just sounded really familiar.. Have you seen a specialist about this..i'm sure he could tell you the possible causes of this pressure you speak of.. did this happen after you came off ssri's?? Or durring ssri treatment??
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> I was on 200mg of zoloft for at least a few years as a teenager, and went off cold turky before going to college. The worst withdrawals I got were irritability and anxeity. The head fuzziness and serious brain fog started around a year and a half later. Its been happening more or less every day for the last 10 months. I've seen a specialist, but all he's said is that he thinks its "physiological" and not a tumor.
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> Huzzah. What a breakthrough.
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> An important thing to keep in mind is that there are many, many things that can cause brain fog. I've read accounts that are very similar to mine, which range from sinus infections, to migraine disorders, to dietary defficiencies.Well with that..you're diagnosis probably is different then mine..it's very strange to all of a sudden become spontaneously stricken with brain fog , memory problems ,and general cognitive problems, in you're late teens.. The only variable that changed was that I was put on paxil..so I immediately attributed it to that...Maybe theres other things it could be.. but from teh research i've done though it makes the most sense it was from teh meds..
\How are you going about finding answers now..have you have an idea as to what it could be?? How are you coping with it?? Do you say the pressures constant..I dunno how i can handle that..i could barely handle the brain fog period..
(side note: i've also have been making these wierd typos upon noticing these problems..that never happened b4..I had to revise this post like 5 times to get it right as I wrote MEMORY as MONEY.... and MIND TO DIME...and I've been missing many words out like I write "i having problems" when of coures I forgot *AM* there much worse then this but i just can't remember all of them i made... very strange..I just wonder what the hell my brain was doing when i made those errors..it's like it just shuts off randomly)
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