Hi

This has hit me hard over the last few months, peaking this week.

My life is unbelievably stressful right now, far worse than anything I've ever experienced. I think this is a contributing factor.

Right now I'm unable to perform anything remotely exertive.

For example just now I hung a stair gate on the wall. It weighs about 5kg and I had to drill 9 holes, screw 4 fixings into the wall and hold the gate up a couple of times to test. The entire process took about 15 minutes, but now I'm shaking and trembling like I've had a 2 hour bodybuilding session and almost feel too weak to stand. I also notice lactic acid pain in my forearms as I'm typing!

This started a couple of weeks ago when I had a kind of random physical breakdown after dinner one night. All of a sudden I just felt exhausted, anxious and shaky. I can handle the anxiety with my normal methods but the physical feeling has stayed with me.

I have a feeling it must be linked to the stress (CFS like?) but this rapid muscle fatigue is both annoying and frightening.

Anybody have any experience with this kind of thing?