About 2 weeks ago, something changed with me physically. I've had a couple cycles now, a few days with really intense brain fog, not really able to think right, get into a bleary ADHD hyperfocus and can't make myself do anything else. Then a day or two about average. Then I'm waking up with a physical sense of anxiety and being keyed up, which will often develop into extreme irritability or, rarely, euphoria, depending how the day goes. (I have bipolar II with ultrarapid/ultradian cycling, and raging ADHD-inattentive.)

I've been tracking things pretty darn closely for a while now because my pdoc and I are on a mission to very carefully evaluate meds after 20 years of them mostly not working, and being applied haphazardly. But I'm not sure what changed, MAYBE i'm taking magnesium supplements more regularly, and I am eating healthier now.

The only thing that really stands out, my roommate had a very mild cold, barely any sneezing and stuffiness, but it made her badly fatigued for a couple days. I got that same mild cold coming on, and a day later the first severe fog happened. It came with fatigue for a day or two, since then that hasn't been an issue. But something happened. The weird fog/agitation cycle is worse than usual and not normal. Both phases of it feel driven, biologically, much more so than my usual - it's hard to describe, but I don't wake up feeling keyed up and anxious ever, until this started.

What the hell.

Ideally it would be an opportunity to maybe do some tests and get an idea of what's going on, but that's not how our health care system works, especially when you're on Medicaid.

The one other issue I wanted to toss in where physical events seem to cause a mood ripple, sometimes I'll have a strange-feeling bad day the day after I do some exercise, in my case it will happen the day after I've walked a few miles with a heavy pack - I try to keep in shape for backpacking and so forth because being out in the trees makes me feel a hell of a lot better than most other things.

Just curious if weird little illnesses, or exercise, or other minor things affecting the body will set off mood turbulence or brain fog or whatever else for others.