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I've noticed this, and am wondering if anyone else has too.
All day, I'm foggy, distant, totally forgetful, disconnected and vacant, and then at around 6 pm it's like someone throws a switch, and I feel very nearly normal. So strange.
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Not really sure...but your brain fog may be due to a "sensory issue" and the day may bring more movement, light, etc. And at night things slow down causing your brain fog to lift????
I get terrible brain fog, dizziness and disconnection when (if) I go to a store I can barely read labels or find things. I pray I don't run into anyone I know...I don't know if I would recognize them. My LLMD says it is a sensory issue as well as a toxin overload (lights, smell, etc)
Are you more active during the day? Are things more calm at night?
Or, it may be your "lyme cycle"?
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Yes. It's amazing, the "switch."
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Maya12
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Hey t I get feeling the exact same way as you do visually and perceptually and it drives me nutts especially with more sensory stimuli. I eat the same way I always have for the past two years and even before I got sick and never found food had much to do with it. I appreciate Elma's suggestions they are good as many do have probs with sugar and fluid levels but as you describe I have those exact same symptoms and never had them before and feel at least for me it is likely connected to Lyme and co. And yes it can get better at night but not always . Also since I started on the clarithromycin at first these and many other symptoms were way worse and at about day 6 of taking them all my symptoms have backed off a bit. Don't know what this means but wonder if my Lyme load was so high that the abc have done something to back symptoms off slightly. I know clarithromycin doesn't usually directly kill Lyme and co but it seems to have helped a bit
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For what it's worth, what you are experiencing may be a fluctuation in your cellular sugar and/or salt levels from the day time hours to the night time hours. You can determine this at home by measuring your urine with a refractometer and a conductivity meter. This is very easy to do, a child could take these measurements.
Some people seem to experience a urinary sugar crash and/or a urinary salt crash during the early morning hours and/or the early evening hours and thus they can experience a worsening of brain fog and a worsening of fatigue and etc.But then latter on that evening their urinary sugar and urinary salt levels will go back up to normal or closer to normal and then they will feel alot better...... at least this has been the case for me.
In my experience, if you have a worsening of symptoms such as brain fog or fatigue during the day time hours and then you feel miraculously better in the late eving hours then you may be experiencing a urinary sugar crash and also possiblly a urinary salt crash sometime during the early morning hours or early evening hours. And again, this is where a refractometer and a conductivity meter can be useful. With a refractometer and conductivity meter you can get a rough estimate of what your cellular sugar and salt levels are.
And if you are indeed experiencing a urinary sugar crash and/or a urinary salt crash in the early morning/early evening hours then this is usually fairly easy to correct and you should feel alot better throughout the day as a result of correcting this. You will just have to drink less water/fluids at certain times of the day and you may have to eat more sugar and salt at various times of the day than you currently are.
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I get the same way. I am totally wiped out during the day, have to take a nap. And even after napping I am still fatigued and brain fogged. But, in the evening I often get a second wind
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me too-wish i could change my clock around to be more normal...but i am usually much better noon to midnight...or 3 am. then crashed out
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YES! Me too! Husband doesn't understand why I won't just go to bed early. He thinks it will change things around but I've tried and it doesn't
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Sammi
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I agree with opus2828. It could be adrenal related.
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