I'm feeling really guilty for having this chronic fatigue that no one can properly diagnose ( Read more... )

I'm trying to figure out if I'm in a flare or if it's the Cymbalta. Earlier this week I upped my Cymbalta (to 60mg - I just started it at 30 about 10 days ago). All week I've been really fatigued (both physically and mentally). I feel like someone just stuck a vaccuum up to me and sucked out all the energy. I'd be perfectly happy to just sit in a ( Read more... )

I haven't been here for awhile, missed you all ( Read more... )

So, I flew to PA over a week ago to visit family. My grandparents aren't doing so well and I wanted to see them. I haven't been back for years and have been wanting to go for a while. My mom and I went, so I had support if need be, and we stayed at my aunt's house. The trip went really well--shockingly well--but now I'm home and back to normal ( Read more... )

I've been getting more and more tired or fatigued.  I literally am sleeping my life away at the moment; I think I preferred it when I couldn't sleep.  I get up in the morning, have a shower and need to rest and by 1400 I'm exhausted.  It's not just the pain that is making me this tired.  i seem to have swollen glands all the time at the moment.  I  ( Read more... )

A New Study ( Read more... )

Cross-posting from my journal, because I know there were a few people who were interested in hearing about my sleep study experience:

Here is yesterday's sleep study experience in a nutshell:

Night study:
Wasn't too terrible at first. ( Read more... )

I know .. I've already posted about this before, but here I ask again ( Read more... )

Why is it that when we have pain, we can't sleep, yet, when we're medicated for the pain & the pain is significantly lessened or gone, we still can't sleep.. Help me out with this one.. I have still yet to sleep, despite being in bed for most of the night, despite being exhausted from doing too much today~ er, yesterday~, despite the prescription ( Read more... )

I checked memories and tags, but didn't really find anything I was looking for...Do any of you have good ways to combat fatigue that don't involve drugs? I'm not one of the patients that's opposed to meds, I just take so many right now that I don't want to add on, if that makes sense ( Read more... )