Mental cloudiness or brain fog

[zen_racer]

I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience with this, or has ever felt it get resolved to any degree through any type of therapy, treatment, or anything else.

I personally have an odd history with brain fog.  I've had days where I had such clarity it was hard to believe it was real, and I've also experienced all different varying degrees of brain fog to the point where it got debilitating and I couldn't properly function.  I know the next part sounds weird like this, but I think it makes sense.  Luckily, all of my worst brain fog happened when my gallbladder went from low functioning to hyperkinetic.  The worst and most debilitating happened when I passed all the stones (which is when my gallbladder instantly switched to being hyperkinetic).  I have theorized that it was because sludge came out with the stones, and it was that chemical flooding my system that caused it.

But I haven't had a gallbladder for a while now, and I still have brain fog.  I've seen it mentioned in connection with cptsd, so I'm wondering if there's any hope to get better than where I currently am now.

One thing I've recently seen but haven't posted here about yet, which I had planned to, was for a Dual Sympathetic Reset, or Stellate Ganglion Block.  I don't have any plans for doing this.  From what I gather, it's best to try actual therapy first.  But I've seen videos from people at least claiming to have had this done, and mentioning that the brain fog has lifted and feeling much calmer.

I know I'm pretty high functioning in at least the scope of work projects I've taken on at home for hobby, but I know I used to be sharper, faster processing.  I would chalk it up to age, but my sense of scale for what's normal for my age was severely thrown off by the issues I had with my gallbladder.  Things started getting worse and worse so slowly that I didn't know I was even being affected by anything, and figured it was just because I was getting older.  I kept feeling worse and worse in several different ways and kept telling myself it was due to age.  And then I had surgery, and then got past the nutrient deficiencies, and I felt better than I had in over 5 years.  So now I don't know if anything is actually age related, especially the brain fog that I still feel.

If anyone has any insight, I'd love to hear it.

[Kizzie]

Hey Zen Racer - If you Google "brain fog and CPTSD" there are pages of info about it, some sources more credible than others obviously but enough that you can get a good idea of what it is and why it occurs. 

I used to have it a lot, but 11 years on in recovery it's not as constant I believe because I have dealt with a lot of my underlying trauma. Nowadays if/when it happens I know to slow down, take away as much of any sources of  stress I'm feeling, and focus on why I might be feeling the fog so I can work through it.

Hope this is helpful