I am fully aware of the limitations of IQ tests, but in my Last two years of High School, I was subjected to an enormous battery of IQ Tests, EQ (emotional quotient) and even a few IQQ (IQ Quotient test -a test to see how good at taking IQ tests you are. Of course they didn't tell us that at the time). I think over the two years I took something like 140 of the things. All throughout, my IQ results never varied by more that 6 points up or down. So I found it a bit shocking that according to
http://members.shaw.ca/delajara/IQtable.html being sick dropped me from having an IQ in the 1 in 6,709,882 range to the 1 in 4,298 range. Which one has to admit, is a pretty big drop.
The main point of my question was that if anyone, possibly someone with medical background, knows what's going on inside me that is making me, well, dumber, while I'm sick, I'm very curious to know what it is.