Brain Fog and Anxiety Symptoms?

[dogbigsail]

I had a question just out of curiosity if anyone has experienced kind of a brain fog feeling or maybe zoning out feeling I know this may sound silly but I think maybe the anxiety can run away with your thoughts and feelings and didn't know if anyone else might of experienced this at all.

Also I posted a question about tremor a week or so ago and just wondered if anyone had clairified with a qualified neuro ( maybe one who specializes in *ls ) if these have anything to do with BFS and just wondered how many people actually experience tremor or have in the past ? Thank you so much for all your help you guys are great!!

 

[hCapitalize]

well one thing is for sure, *LS does not affect mental funtioning therefore brain fog cannot be caused by that.

I would say it is anxiety,

Every morning it seems I get up in something of a panic about my condition and that worry for sure does affect my mental funtioning

 

[BandersnatchF]

Umm, well, ALS can be related to dementia in some fraction of cases (perhaps 20-25%?). The good news, of course, is that dementia occurs relatively late in the disease, and it's not "brain fog" or "zoning out"—it's much more noticeable than that.

 

[hCapitalize]

Well if it were me and dementia I would start fretting about CJD instead, it is far nastier even than *LS

I would have thought, though I am no expert that the comorbidity of dementia and *LS would be more a factor of the age skew of a part of the *LS population and dementia would I am sure never be the primary presentation.

As for me, brain fogs are usually the product of fatigue, anxiety or befuddlement.