I knew that at least the at least the brain was connected because the brain fog and the difficulty just kind tracking and fatigue.
The science made so much sense and it made felt-sense as well as an intellectual sense because I knew when it was explained to me about that super highway where the mind cannot get off that loop. I immediately understood that as true for me.
So prior to contracting COVID I did have some sensory processing issues and afterwards, I just felt an increase in those sensitivities: sensitivities to light, sensitivities to sound, even smell.
And I also noticed that I had increased fatigue with doing ordinary things.
My brain, it’s felt like was on fire a lot of times, and so when my health practitioner had connected the two for me, it was such a different direction, or it felt like it came out of left field, but at the same time, I thought wow, maybe that’s explaining what’s going on.
The summer, it was just, May, June, July, extreme fatigue. And heart doing weird stuff all the time. And I would get that exertion fatigue so even if I felt good, I’d go for a walk or maybe even a run, and then I’d be wasted for like two days.
I recovered towards the end of February but by May, I had lost 45 pounds. I was having a lot of trouble breathing, I had profound cognitive deficits and it took every bit of my concentration to figure out my medical… you know, just making doctor appointments. Over the course of many months, I became more and mor reactive and the reactivity included things like these weird smells, and just host of symptoms–full body everything, from burning eyes to burning skin, gut related toilet business, hours and hours at a time. I was nauseous all the time.
I had such fatigue, and as far as my symptoms were going, it felt as though my legs were concrete…just trying to get around the house and I would have to prepare the meals for myself, and like I said, my dog and myself, so it felt next to impossible to get around, it was just so difficult. To be really honest, I was beside myself.
And It was like a state of fear became my state. It was just awful sense of foreboding and I didn’t know if I was going to live or not.
I thought how am I going to how am I going to travel again? Can I ever fly again, take a road trip, It’s just emotional thing about how fast that changed and how fast I got healthier. I think part of the reason I’m feeling so much is that I literally like took a road trip and I’m in Los Angeles and I’m seeing friends and, you know, I was fine. I drove 12 hour days, got to the hotel, slept, woke up, drove another 12 hours, unimaginable, you know.
You know, just today I was taking a walk. I’m walking now at two hours a day. I feel a very clear sense of hormone regulation and calming of the hormones. If there’s only a third of people who are getting better, I would bet my entire world and the farm to say that I’m in that third because of doing five months of brain training.
Within two to three weeks, I noticed the sensitivities that I had to lights and sounds were decreasing pretty good. I noticed after about four weeks my like my increased fatigue was also getting better. Um I would say within two months I was back out fishing and stuff, so that was an awesome thing.
As the program progressed, I progressed. My improvements were remarkable. I felt like I could think straight. I could keep my brain together a little better than I I had been doing before and I could recall my memory retention was so much better. I was way stronger. I had lost all that weight as uh the 25 pounds put all the way back on and I have more muscle now than I did before.
