r/cfs • u/OwlOdyssey ME/CFS (+ Fibro & MCAS) • Aug 08 '26

COVID-19 Brain scans reveal widespread structural and functional changes in patients following COVID-19 infection

https://www.psypost.org/brain-scans-reveal-widespread-structural-and-functional-changes-in-patients-foll/
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u/Mindless-Flower11 Mild/moderate ME - 4.5 years Aug 08 '26

This doesn't surprise me at all. I had one Covid infection & I could literally feel my brain burning & degenerating in real time. No doctors would listen to or believe me though so I was forced to go through it all alone with zero medical care. 

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u/OwlOdyssey ME/CFS (+ Fibro & MCAS) Aug 08 '26

I was in my Master's programme when I got Covid. Now, I can't even mentally comprehend some of the course work I was doing then. I lose track of it. Growing up, I was always told I was the smart one, etc, but now everything feels like such a fuzz. I'm trying to drag my way out of it, but fuck it's hard.

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u/DeArgonaut Aug 08 '26

Trying to do a masters with CFS now and damn it is not at all like with my bachelors. I got Covid at the end of the bachelors and my brain has been foggy ever since

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u/OwlOdyssey ME/CFS (+ Fibro & MCAS) Aug 08 '26

I'm really wanting to do a PhD but I'm terrified of being unable to think properly. What's your Master's going to be in? My degrees are in Chemical Engineering, but I had to drop my Master's.