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    Brain fog, phantom smells and tinnitus: my 4 months (and counting) of Covid-19 | Hannah Davis

    I fell sick on 25 March. Four months later, I’m still dealing with fever, cognitive dysfunction, memory issues and much more
    by Hannah Davis Aug 05, 2020 5 minutes
    ‘I had neurological symptoms early on. Everything felt foggy and far away. I forgot everything – even things that had happened a few minutes earlier.’ Photograph: Tero Vesalainen/Getty Images/iStockphoto

    I just passed the four-month mark of being sick with Covid. I am young, and I had considered myself healthy.

    My first symptom was that I couldn’t read a text message. It wasn’t about anything complex – just trying to arrange a video call – but it was a few sentences longer than normal, and I couldn’t wrap my head around it. It was the end of the night so I thought I was tired, but an hour later I took my temperature and realized I had a fever. I had been isolating for 11 days at that point; the only place I had been was the grocery store.

    My Day 1 – a term people with Long Covid use to mark the first day of symptoms – was 25 March.

    Four months later, I’m still dealing with a near-daily

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