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FATIGUE!!

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judytal
judytal

the fatigue is so bad this morning I want to scream!!!  

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  • barbara75814
    barbara75814 judytal

    Posted

    I think Dave makes a good point about not allowing this illness "to drive you into the ground." 

    Here is a bit of advice I find helpful from a book. He writes: "We don't have full control over the conditions of our lives. But the one thing we do have control over is how we relate to ourselves

    and the world around us; specifically, whether we accept what is, or struggle against it.... If we accept something is true in the moment, that doesn't mean we can't work toward changing it in the future--in the very next moment. Acceptance...

    is simply seeing reality as it is.

    "When we accept what is, we are free. Free to act in accordance with reality. Free to be at peace with the circumstances of our lives, no matter how undesirable or difficult they are. And free to continue to do everything in our power to improve the conditions of our lives (or of life in general) in the next moment."

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    • judytal
      judytal barbara75814

      Posted

      Morning, Barbara,

         "Free to be at peace with the circumstances of our lives"  I like this.

      Take care  and be at peace also.

      judy

  • EileenH
    EileenH judytal

    Posted

    The Germans talk about "Fruehjahrsmudigkeit" (I'm sure I've spelt that wrong) or "spring tiredness" - your body has to catch up with the time of year, the change in temperatures, the longer days and the clock change. And wanting to be out and doing after being in the house all winter.

    It isn't nonsense - and then there is the full moon - also decidedly effective on body-clocks.

    It is less "the doctors knowing what to do" than YOU knowing what to do. There is only a very limited amount the doctors CAN do - give you pred to allow the inflammation to be controlled. But the real illness is still there and they neither know how it works or how to do anything about it as yet. It's tough - but honestly, it WILL get better and that is something you need to hold on to.

  • carol20979
    carol20979 judytal

    Posted

    I know how you feel.Today I feel so tired and light headed,you just never know from one day to the next how you will feel,makes it hard to plan ahead.Hang in there they say this does'nt last forever

     

    • judytal
      judytal carol20979

      Posted

      Tired is really not the word... I've felt tired ... this is like having weights dragging on your arms and legs or like having glue in your joints...  Plus it comes and goes with really some times with no rhyme or reason...   Sometimes I think I need to eat somthing for energy BUT that's a big mistake cause it does NOT help.  
    • EileenH
      EileenH judytal

      Posted

      "Concrete overcoat" is the term one lady uses.
    • EileenH
      EileenH judytal

      Posted

      There is a special suit that has been developed so that healthcare professionals can feel what it is like to be old - unable to bend, legs that feel like ton weights and so on. It is used with medical students - but to be honest it is rheumies who need to be tied into the damn thing. At least every couple of years so they know where WE are coming from.

      I keep saying this, I know - but we are working on explaining our terminology to them and translating one to another!

    • judytal
      judytal EileenH

      Posted

      I always thought it would be good for some physicians to "suffer" what their patients are going through.  I treated many people with low back pain and I came to be the one who was referred to by physicians..  I liked to help people with low back problems because they were often dismissed by physician because they ( doctors ) didn't know what to do.  I was grateful they sent them to me.   
    • EileenH
      EileenH judytal

      Posted

      Absolutely! When I was at Uni a peer at medical scholl fell off a mountain, broke his back and ended up in a wheelchair. He finsihed medical school and then specialised - to end up working in the Limb-fitting Centre at Broughty Ferry in Dundee. For anyone old enough - where Douglas Bader got his tin legs! No patient could tell him he didn't know what they were going through!

      Have you said Judy - what do you do?

    • judytal
      judytal EileenH

      Posted

      What is Uni? 

      I'm a physical therapist....

    • EileenH
      EileenH judytal

      Posted

      University - what you call high school? Tertiary education, where you do a degree. Our system is different...

      Yup - far more use for low back pain than a doctor! An orthopod told me there was nothing to be done for the low back pain I had, I'd have to live with it which, since at 58 I couldn't walk more than a few hundred yards, was hardly encouraging. I thought the physio I saw some time later was going to explode!! Load of manual mobilisation, cortisone shots and some Bowen therapy - not a sign of it!

  • david14272
    david14272 judytal

    Posted

    to anyone who needs a lighter take on fatigue& exercice click on patient.info f/book logo& scroll down.nite nite Dave
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