my brain has been very foggy 2 weeks out from fainting

Various studies over the past 18 months estimate long COVID can affect anywhere from 2.3 per cent to 76 per cent of COVID-19 cases. To this day, we still know very little about long COVID, including just how many people it affects.

The memory loss was especially unnerving. 'And then it would feel like it would flip on itself continuously and so it makes it really hard to sleep because you're lying there and it feels like your brain is doing somersaults and then it's also spinning.'

'It's as if there was like a mini person in my brain and he was scraping my whole brain with a rake, it was just pain,' Freya says. Earlier this month, the World Health Organization released its clinical case definition of what it calls 'post COVID-19 condition', which affects people at least two months after a COVID-19 infection with symptoms that 'cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis'.įor Freya, symptoms like chest pain and a sore throat were manageable, but the dizziness and 'brain pain' she experienced were debilitating. It's not an official medical term it was coined out of necessity by the public. It's sometimes also referred to as long-haul COVID, chronic COVID and post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC).Įxactly what constitutes long COVID remains extremely broad.

By April 2020, 'long COVID' was being mentioned in Facebook support groups.

My brain has been very foggy 2 weeks out from fainting