Neurological & Cognitive Manifestations of Long COVID
1) Cognitive Dysfunction: It is manifested in the form of brain fog, difficulty with attention, thinking, and executive functions, as well as difficulty with problem-solving capacity and overall slow thought process. These symptoms can be quite disabling in patients with professions requiring higher cognitive function.
2) Emotional & Psychological: Anxiety, Depression, Suicidal ideation, Visual hallucination, Auditory hallucination, maniac, and hypomanic symptoms can be part of a vast spectrum of clinical manifestations of long COVID.
3) Sensorimotor: These symptoms can range from loss of smell taste to altered smell/taste, difficulty with speech, slurry words, and short/long-term memory loss.
4) Neuro-sensory: These symptoms can range from numbness and loss of sensation to paraesthesia, including tingling, prickling and pins needle sensation, headache, and electrical Zap.
Recommendations: Discuss with a Neurologist for Symptomatic Treatment. N-acetylcysteine (NAC) and Guanfacine has been used by researchers at Yale University. No proven treatment has been available for this condition.
Dr Bharat Marwaha, MD is practicing Cardiologist in U.S.A. He has published and presented more than 15 articles including in top 2 Journals of Cardiology in United States. He has received an “Academic Excellence Award” during his training. He has represented Ohio States at National Jeopardy Quiz Contest for doctors. He is a reviewer for Journal of Translation Medicine and Cureus.
Nice article. A study published in December 2020 found that about 28 % of people had lingering concentration problems even after 100 days of hospital admission for COVID-19.
personal experience or anecdotal reports of successful treatments offer the only sources of hope for a cure.
My friend was diagnosed with Covid, and she was never the same. Her ability to think, remember, learn and make decisions was quite impaired.
That sums up all the post covid affects, quite well !
I got covid in the first month of lockdown in 2021. And have been crippled with brain fog and wide spread chronic pain fatigue and . Lost my buissness. Haven’t been able to sustain work since.. couldn’t make my doctors understand how or what I was going through. And now have just found out I have lung cancer. As an athlete. This has been crippling.. .
This is what my Mom is facing currently.