Foggy, unclear thinking during pregnancy

[prego71]

I am about 33 weeks pregnant and about a month ago I started to feel really weird...I feel constant pressure in my ears, they feel "full", even though there is nothing there, I have "traveling" sensations throughout my head: some tingling here and there, but what annoys me the most is the lack of clear thinking, it all feels foggy, almost like I can not "feel" my thought, can't think things through, my own thinking feels "fuzzy" . It's really hard for me to make any decision, since I don't have clear vision ( in my mind) of anything.  I want to do so many things, but this condition just ruins everything:  Is it somewhat normal during pregnancy and what could cause the problem? I've had similar experience with my second child (I'm pregnant with my fourth). I've heard from some women that they also had something similar either during pregnancy or during menopause. Could this be some kind of symptom of depression?

[cidneychen]

i Need help i am suffering from anxiety and now i think i am depersonalized, it hurts so badly i can hardly go through the day. i dont feel like ill never feel like myself ever again, my life seem meaningless,  i feel like running from myself...but where do i run to. i am trapped, my symptoms take me all over so as far as getting better, it feels hopeless, please give me your advice. thank you

[prego71]

Thank you for your comment. When did your symptoms start? I was under tremendous stress: my grandma passed away, my husband lost his job, everything that could go wrong with our investments-went wrong...but I wasn't really taking any of that stuff as something extraordinary. Life is life...that was my motto. I am usually a very happy person, always encourage others and always finding answers to problems. I was not depressed! We went on vacation to Las Vegas and thats where everything started: with little anxiety about stuffy nose, then this weird sensation in my ears and now my head constantly feels stuffed, with occasional tingling here and there. My ears are fine, my blood tests are normal. My weird absorption of information and even my own thinking process is what bothers me the most: it feels like I'm trying to catch up to my own thoughts and they escape from me and I don't get to feel anything that is associated with the thought. Doctors are somewhat puzzled, but I really do not know what they call foggy head. Is it just forgetting but feeling normal otherwise? To me it's being in constant "fog": fading thoughts, fading feelings (because everything is in our brain), feeling "disconnected" from my body. It's hard for me to even cook  and to put clothes together. I am an interior designer and this condition really affects my job: It's really hard to  put things together, to imagine, to create. Maybe I'm trying to analyze it too much but this is something I'm dealing with every moment of my life now, it's not like you can take a brake from your brain: every single thought is going through it and its quality is how you feel! Hopefully this will go away soon (it eventually did with my son).

[jessmoss626]

I'll be 30 weeks tomorrow and I'm having a similar issue. I feel like a slug. I don't have the ear pressure, but occasionally I will feel out of it. I'm normally very intelligent, when I was pregnant with my first daughter I read everything and could tell people about everything I read. This time I read and read and read and it all slips right back out. I feel like an idiot. I was just diagnosed with GD, and as many times as I've read about insulin, glucose, ect I still can't explain exactly what is happening. I have trouble making choices, even about what to have for dinner. I just feel blah and tired. This probably isn't exactly the same as what you're experiencing, but maybe it's close enough to make you feel a little better. Have you been stressed? I know I've had a lot of non-pregnancy related stress this time and I think that is adding to these issues. I'm thinking this is normal (but worse than most people's) pregnancy brain. I'm crossing my fingers that I'll start to feel like a normal person again after I give birth. If you're really worried ask your dr. Hope I helped a little!!