Showing posts with label no spoon day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label no spoon day. Show all posts

Friday, 26 March 2010

Weird Day

I can't explain how I feel, I'm all out of sorts. I'm exhausted but not in the usual way. I'm starving but too tired to cook, the spring cleaning bug has hit me and again, I'm too tired to do anything about it.
I haven't got the heavy feeling I usually have when I'm tired, motivation is an all time zero but my body feels ok, no heaviness, the pain is minimal but I still can't get myself going. If my body usually felt like this I would class it as a better day but I'm just as bad as I am on a no spoons day but with a different feeling.

I don't know if it's the amitriptyline, I wouldn't have thought it would affect me so soon but nothing else seems to explain it.
I've been snoozing on and off all day. Usually if I'm sleepy I'll settle down to an hour or two and then I'm ok again but today I have been half asleep and half awake all day but not feeling any gain from the naps.

Just a really, odd, unknown feeling and I'm not comfortable with it at all, it's almost like I'm not within my body?

Sorry for the babble, just want to get it written down while it's fresh in mind and feeling.

Thursday, 25 March 2010

Amitriptyline

Not impressed so far, not at all.

I have woken up feeling the worst I've felt for a very long time.
I feel so sluggish, I ache more than usual and can barely move and I don't feel any refreshment from my sleep at all, I feel just as exhausted and wiped out as I did when I went to sleep. I usually feel somewhat alert in the mornings even though I rarely feel refreshed from my sleeps but it's never been this bad. I literally feel like I didn't sleep a wink last night when I know I was spark out within 10 minutes.

I can't solely blame the amitriptyline, yesterdays Krypton Factor adventure could also be a factor but good grief it's taken me all the morning to peel myself off the sofa to write this entry so it's recorded as my mind is slowly turning to goo lately.

That pill reminder thingy I ordered from ebay came yesterday so that should be a big help as I was getting very forgetful with just 1 tablet a day and now I have to take 2.

This is all I'm going to write for now, I just wanted to record the morning after amitriptyline.

Saturday, 20 March 2010

CFS says no

I caved yesterday and did go for a sleep. Got a (disturbed) couple of hours which did help and I still managed to sleep reasonably well last night. Woke up at 5am but managed to snooze until 7 when I'd had enough and got up.

A couple of people sent me links to something called The Spoon Theory on a website called butyoudontlooksick.com. It's a VERY good way of trying to explain a chronic illness like ME/CFS. Please do read it HERE.
Typically today has turned out to be a 'no spoons' day. I've woken up feeling crap. The chances of me getting out or doing anything today are a big fat zero, damn and buggeration. Not that the weather is up to much anyway I suppose.
 I'm not sure if it's just the ME/CFS or something else brewing. My ears are aching and even more so when I swallow, but my glands often swell thanks to the ME/CFS so I don't know if it's related or I'm coming down with yet another viral infection, the culprit Dr Sam and I think eventually caused my ME/CFS because I was getting so so many and never able to recover properly from one before another hit.

Let's hope by resting today I might be able to gather a couple of spoons for tomorrow!