Is it Sjogrens Syndrome?
*Brain Fog is often experienced as problems with memory or difficulty focusing* When we talk about nervous systems symptoms, often it is somehow okay if just a finger or toe is numb, but it is much scarier to have the brain be involved and to be experiencing cognitive difficulties. In Sjogren’s Syndrome the whole nervous system can be affected, but here we will focus primarily on the Central Nervous System (CNS), which consists of the brain and spinal chord. There are many things that can happen in the CNS, causing such symptoms as motor or sensory hemiparesis (one-sided weakness or numbness usually occuring in the face, arm or leg) slurred or garbled speech, encephalopathy (non-specific brain illness), recurrent asceptic meningitis (inflammation of the meninges, the coating that covers the brain and spinal chord, without the presence of infection), seizures, psychological difficulties such as depression, anxiety or panic attacks, bladder dysfunctions, or extraparamital disorders affec
