Brain fog is short-term memory loss combined with exhaustion: forgetting your kid's name, losing your keys, struggling to do things that should be automatic. Two speakers discuss what patients experience and how EEG testing might help diagnose it.
I was upset when I would hear people be critical of the patients by saying, "What the hell was brain fog?" It's so real. And I was like, when someone from the client side said this to me for the first time, I said, "Okay, so I just need to understand exactly what that means to you. What are you describing to me?" And they said, "Well, I have trouble remembering my kid's name." Yeah. God, I remember that. And then he said, I can't find my keys sometimes. I'm like, well, okay, that's short-term memory loss. So if you just convey to the— to me as a provider, if you say short-term memory loss, I understand that. I don't know what the hell brain fog is. I do now because I see it all the— I understand it from the client side now. But back then I was like, oh, so it's just short-term memory loss plus a lack of energy.
Like, you have to summon the effort to think of something that should just come automatically is also part of it, and short-term memory loss. At least that's how I would have described it.
Right. It was actually you who convinced me to do EEGs. I was listening to the show, uh, and you described Wavi Medical.
And yeah, Wavi, we did an interview a while ago about brain speeds. And if you read my new book, Smarter Not Harder, I talk about one of the measures that they take, uh, as kind of proof that there's an operating system in your body. So that's a little side note about Wavi. But okay, so you learned about EEG on the show.
