Anyone else perpetually tired?

[LoneCowboy]

Those with fibromyalgia can have a brain fog, they call it fibro fog. I worry about it because I'm becoming more and more of an air head everyday. I hate it.

Try some tylenol PM for a week and see if you start to feel better.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

Count me in. But, I got tested once ad was positive for Epstien-Barr. I am not sure if that really means I have chronic fatigue and sometimes I don't think I have it. For years now I have always had some reason for why I am so tired - school, little kids, stress, whatever. But, now it doesn't really fit.

I am careful of my diet and I get good exercise and I am not overweight.

Anyone who knows more about this, I would love to hear it because I don't know enough to put up a good argument with my doctor.

 

[Wifezilla]

Vitamin D level

Test it


Seriously

 

[ams3651]

forgive me for repeating if i am and for skipping ahead. I am tired all the time but I believe its from my diabetes and when I take meds like I should

its not so bad. But I have alot of stress with my youngest son and his problems, I leave Mondays for me. Hes back to school after the hard weekend and I dont do much of anything around here, I need the time to recoup. Also with the vitamin d they say even just being out in the sun 10 minutes will help if your low and most people who live in the north are low. I take anxiety meds too and they can make me tired, Ive tried 2 different ones and have just given up trying to get around it.

ETA, about the sleep thing. Try Melatonin its nautral and just one tablet puts me to sleep in 20 minutes but if i have to get up with my son or when I get up in the am you dont feel groggy. I had an incident a year ago and couldnt sleep and this helped me alot.

 

[beak]

Good to hear you don't have apnia.

 

[sara]

I have fatigue issues, but I think it's just left over side effects from my stem cell transplant.

 

[Wifezilla]

Also with the vitamin d they say even just being out in the sun 10 minutes will help if your low and most people who live in the north are low

Exactly. Two things that make your vblood level worse...obesity and age. Your ability to use vitamin D decreases with both.

How much do you need? Here is a sun exposure calculator...
http://www.thevitamindcure.com/calculator

Why is D so important?
"Technically not a "vitamin," vitamin D is in a class by itself. Its metabolic product, calcitriol, is actually a secosteroid hormone that targets over 1000 genes in the human body. Current research has implicated vitamin D deficiency as a major factor in the pathology of at least 17 varieties of cancer as well as heart disease, stroke, hypertension, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, depression, chronic pain, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, muscle wasting, birth defects, periodontal disease, and more.Vitamin D's influence on key biological functions vital to one's health and well-being mandates that vitamin D no longer be ignored by the health care industry nor by individuals striving to achieve and maintain a greater state of health."
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/

If you decide to supplement, just remember you want D3 (NOT D2) and it must be taken with some kind of fat. Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin.​

 

[turney31]

Me,too! Fibromyalgia 15 years. wake up looking for the truck that ran over me.Brain fog. I have found that animals are so not judgemental. Looking into Lyrica. praying it will help. Micah

 

[jnjross]

i plan to bring this topic up with my doc on tuesday i have been tired all my life school was very difficult for me, but it's gotten alot worse since aug. i have a three year old i can't live like this, it's just like when she was newborn and was feeding every two hours for 30min and getting 2hours of sleep a day! I feel that bad.

 

[Prairie Mary]

Boy I hesitate to post, as it could take pages to cover this enough so you'd understand it all. Anyway . . . I'll make an attempt as I don't want anyone to go through being sick for life when they didn't need to be. If only one person is helped it will be worth it.

I went 5 yrs misdiagnosed with CFS (which is a dx of exclusion and the cause is unknown). By the time I found out what I really had - lyme disease - it was stage 3. So now it's an auto-immune disease. I've been battling this since 1999 and I don't know if/when it'll end.

It turns out that CFS, FM, EBV, MS and whole host of other ailments can be Lyme Disease which is usually accompanied by other tick born illnesses. One doc in TX found that 95% of CFS patients in a 500 patient clinic in Houston had lyme disease.
There are a host of reasons it goes misdiagnosed - most well-meaning docs don't think it's in their state (as of last yr it's in all 48 contiguous states), the standard lab (ELISA) missed over 60% of the cases, patients don't realize that they have to become their own advocate and educate themselves to get adequate testing (western blot that reports bands) and treatment, there are politics involved (yes, I sound crazy, but currently in CT they are sorting out the IDSA lyme treatment guidelines due to unscrupulous infectious disease docs), the symptoms differ by region, a persons make-up and what co-infections they may have. . . the list goes on.

For information go to www.ILADS dot com
Please don't miss the top 10 list. It addresses a lot of the misconceptions that are out there.

Blessings for your health,
Prairie Mary