Study: Even mild COVID-19 can cause your brain to shrink

[Seoul Gleou]

Recent brain imaging shows the disease can cause physical changes equivalent to a decade of aging and trigger problems with attention and memory. Exactly why is still a mystery.

Published April 15, 2022
• 8 min read

After being bedridden with fever and coughing for three and half days, Elena Katzap thought COVID-19 was behind her. The writer and teacher in Los Angeles had contracted the virus at the end of January 2022, and she felt grateful that she got only a mild case—she didn't have breathing difficulties and didn’t need to be hospitalized, and she recovered within days.

“I very specifically remember saying, God it feels so good to be healthy again,” says Katzap. “Then all of a sudden, the very next day it smacked me, and I didn't know what it was, because it started off with nausea and some stomach issues and some weird forgetfulness.”

Katzap has since experienced an acute loss of memory with poor concentration. She draws blanks in the middle of conversations, and words fail her mid-sentence. “It isn't physically painful, but it's so frustrating,” she laments.

Even mild COVID-19 can cause your brain to shrink


anyone get these post-covid symptoms? hard to remember things? lack of concentration?

 

[Joe Budden]

Trump is a demon.

 

[Software]

Ok but what can people do about it? Some of us have already gotten covid are we supposed to just be in fear that we're "fukked up" somehow cuz we got it and recovered? The virus is endemic at this point. I doubt it will ever go away. This feels a bit too close to fear mongering tbh. Not because it isn't true that this can happen but because there's really nothing we can do about it. Just try and dodge the shyt as much as possible. I've seen people take all the cdc mandated precautions, be vaxxed and boosted, and still get it. At this point it is what it is with the effects of this virus.

 

[CrimsonTider]

You can’t avoid getting covid

 

[Seoul Gleou]

Ok but what can people do about it? Some of us have already gotten covid are we supposed to just be in fear that we're "fukked up" somehow cuz we got it and recovered? The virus is endemic at this point. I doubt it will ever go away. This feels a bit too close to fear mongering tbh. Not because it isn't true that this can happen but because there's really nothing we can do about it. Just try and dodge the shyt as much as possible. I've seen people take all the cdc mandated precautions, be vaxxed and boosted, and still get it. At this point it is what it is with the effects of this virus.

there's nothing wrong with knowing what can happen if you get covid. but i think its disingenuous to say we can't do anything. mandates are being relaxed across the board despite vaccine rates still being sub-par. people have forgotten there's a virus that is capable of doing all of this. i think we should stress how dangerous it is and keep pre-cautions going. there are things we can do while the virus is studied more. people just wont like those things

 

[desjardins]

Can you still get this if you're vaccinated? Asking because the vaccine is posed to basically guarantee a mild case but what if a mild case still has long term ramifications like this study is suggesting.....
I know two women personally who have/had brain fog. One of them is a professor and I know she took some extended time off, wondering if they really fukked up and just hiding it well

 

[Dorian Breh]

Trump is a demon.

He wasn't worried about Covid because it wasn't possible for his brain to shrink any smaller.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

Recent brain imaging shows the disease can cause physical changes equivalent to a decade of aging and trigger problems with attention and memory. Exactly why is still a mystery.

Published April 15, 2022
• 8 min read

After being bedridden with fever and coughing for three and half days, Elena Katzap thought COVID-19 was behind her. The writer and teacher in Los Angeles had contracted the virus at the end of January 2022, and she felt grateful that she got only a mild case—she didn't have breathing difficulties and didn’t need to be hospitalized, and she recovered within days.

“I very specifically remember saying, God it feels so good to be healthy again,” says Katzap. “Then all of a sudden, the very next day it smacked me, and I didn't know what it was, because it started off with nausea and some stomach issues and some weird forgetfulness.”

Katzap has since experienced an acute loss of memory with poor concentration. She draws blanks in the middle of conversations, and words fail her mid-sentence. “It isn't physically painful, but it's so frustrating,” she laments.

Even mild COVID-19 can cause your brain to shrink


anyone get these post-covid symptoms? hard to remember things? lack of concentration?

Yes I blank mid sentence but I think it might be because I haven’t been out for a while it talking to people regularly

 

[Genos]

Ok but what can people do about it? Some of us have already gotten covid are we supposed to just be in fear that we're "fukked up" somehow cuz we got it and recovered? The virus is endemic at this point. I doubt it will ever go away. This feels a bit too close to fear mongering tbh. Not because it isn't true that this can happen but because there's really nothing we can do about it. Just try and dodge the shyt as much as possible. I've seen people take all the cdc mandated precautions, be vaxxed and boosted, and still get it. At this point it is what it is with the effects of this virus.

There is nothing we can do about it because you don't know what to do about it?


Maybe you cant think of anything because your brain shrank

 

[bnew]

there was that story of that kid a while back who describe similar symptoms.. just going blank on some stuff. a nurse who went back to nurse and forgot how to do something she'd done repeatedly before.

 

[bnew]

You can’t avoid getting covid

you act like there aren't millions of us who never got it.

 

[bnew]

There is nothing we can do about it because you don't know what to do about it?


Maybe you cant think of anything because your brain shrank

 

[bnew]

 

[ColdSlither]

Recent brain imaging shows the disease can cause physical changes equivalent to a decade of aging and trigger problems with attention and memory. Exactly why is still a mystery.

Published April 15, 2022
• 8 min read

After being bedridden with fever and coughing for three and half days, Elena Katzap thought COVID-19 was behind her. The writer and teacher in Los Angeles had contracted the virus at the end of January 2022, and she felt grateful that she got only a mild case—she didn't have breathing difficulties and didn’t need to be hospitalized, and she recovered within days.

“I very specifically remember saying, God it feels so good to be healthy again,” says Katzap. “Then all of a sudden, the very next day it smacked me, and I didn't know what it was, because it started off with nausea and some stomach issues and some weird forgetfulness.”

Katzap has since experienced an acute loss of memory with poor concentration. She draws blanks in the middle of conversations, and words fail her mid-sentence. “It isn't physically painful, but it's so frustrating,” she laments.

Even mild COVID-19 can cause your brain to shrink


anyone get these post-covid symptoms? hard to remember things? lack of concentration?

Yes. I will be watching TV going to switch to another channel or something, think of something else, then totally forget which channel I was going to tune to. Its been mundane things, but if I don't do what pops into my head, I might forget it. I've always had that to a degree, but it got way worse after covid. It's gotten a lot easier for me to get distracted and get back on track.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Trump is a demon.

Never forget. Its Trump's fault the Coronavirus ravaged America cause he let it go unchecked out of spite.