Anybody with HA suffer chronic fatigue/ill feeling?

[phil06]

Does anybody here with HA suffer over a period of months feeling very fatigued, tried, "not me" strange feeling? Also does this feeling get worse when you have a thought like "It can't just be anxiety"?

I've suffered three different periods of anxiety over 5 years the first was due to an immediate stress, second was a change of lifestyle from bad to good, third was an extremely stressful period this year where nothing went my way. The first time that made me feel panicky all the time I had to cut caffeine out, second time I felt very desperate/panicky/feared I was crazy and third time I have felt I was crazy/less panic but still getting it, feeling like crap all day.

Most days from my head to my stomach to eyes to ears I feel rotten in some way usually with some kind of symptom making my way very awkward. I notice music seems to seed out alot of these symptoms. I wonder why I feel this way? Lack of sleep? my regular negative pattern of thoughts/whole body scanning for sensations? I can suffer a mix of OCD/Depression and panic in a single day too.

Some days it's not panic just feel rotten by a symptom..my usually gut feeling is it's too severe to be just anxiety that makes me feel I can't cope..or how do I cope? many days I feel I really need a doctor or the hospital but I can resist as the symptoms ease up from desperate to just bearable.

Is it acceptable to be feeling this way all day? I suspect it may only be more chronic suffers which get it on a regular basis...is it a sake of stick in to exercise and apples for a few weeks to give yourself a boost out of the phase? I suspect it may eventually pass when my mind moves on..but my main question is it normal to feel this way from what you hear all the time "just anxiety"? makes it sound less important.

*One other thing when I go to bed earlier get up in the morning and not 12 or 1pm I feel alot better than I do. But 6/7 days I sleep on. When I sleep on I feel strained in the chest, muscles wise, tried...more weird from DP and so on...as trivial as it may be I wonder if those late sleep ons are really contributing to the crappy feeling all day?
*Drinking diluted juice instead of fizzy for a few hours stops a panic attack sometimes.

[anthrokid]

I have CFS and fibromyalgia and I get absolutely exhausted and achey which used to make me really anxious which made everything worse. My anxiety is much better now and I can separate my anxiety symptoms from my CFS/fibro symptoms, but I do find the more exhausted I am the worse my anxiety is.

And in reference to you're sleeping on comment, my CFS specialist has actually advised me to get no more than 9 hours sleep per night and to wake up as early as possible, because sleeping to much or too late actually worsens CFS and makes you more tired! So sleep early, wake up early and expose yourself to sunlight or outside soon after you wake up. Exercise first thing in the morning is excellednt for both CFS and anxiety and makes the rest of the day much less crappy.

[Mogwog]

Me - especially if I am getting anxious about my health - its like the life is being drained out of me, like someone needs to plug me in and charge me!!!!

I obviously find it eases when I am less anxious and like Amieekid says - keeping active and exercise helps a lot, even if you don't feel like it.

Laura.xxx

[phil06]

Me - especially if I am getting anxious about my health - its like the life is being drained out of me, like someone needs to plug me in and charge me!!!!

I obviously find it eases when I am less anxious and like Amieekid says - keeping active and exercise helps a lot, even if you don't feel like it.

Laura.xxx

That's the hard part..don't feel like it..I really struggle to push myself at times. :weep:

[PokerFace]

That's the hard part..don't feel like it..I really struggle to push myself at times. :weep:

I'm right there with you mate! I recently started exercise again about 3/4weeks ago? Was so much effort in the beginning, I don't have a clue how I managed to stick at it and it's a pain in the bum trying to do it everyday. It DOES pay off in the end though so maybe try a little gentle exercise 3 days a week like housework, walking down the street and back, running up and down the stairs 3 times, 10 sit ups, even sitting up and down on the sofa 10 times lol! Anything! Then when you feel it becoming more easier to be motivated you can try something else! xx

[Mogwog]

That's the hard part..don't feel like it..I really struggle to push myself at times. :weep:

I know - I don't feel like it either, I recently joined a gym where you do a 30 min work out and haven't even got the get up and go to do that

Laura.x

[JaxynMija]

Me - especially if I am getting anxious about my health - its like the life is being drained out of me, like someone needs to plug me in and charge me!!!!

I obviously find it eases when I am less anxious and like Amieekid says - keeping active and exercise helps a lot, even if you don't feel like it.

Laura.xxx

Yeah I totally agree with this. I would also think that maybe your suffering from depression as well...

And that whole "its jsut anxiety" is what people who DONT understand anxiety say. There is nothing 'just' about it as far as how it effects you... The only 'just' part is that IS the cause, nothing more.

Your not alone and I think the way your feeling is normal for us HA sufferers, especailly when its on the move, KWIM?

[phil06]

Yep I mean I went out today..big fuss about it but went out still felt crap..still went to a toilet..but I did get what I went for in the shops.

I just don't see it as much of a reward that I feel crap indoors and outdoors all the time. It's all very well saying well I went out..but sometimes going out makes you feel happy..today was one of these days where it made no odds..:shrug::huh:

[Katie6]

I have been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome i also suffer with anxiety, i feel ill every minute of every day, i am constantly exhausted, i always wake feeling unrefreshed and have forgotten what it is like to feel normal. as well as feeling exhausted i get very weak and dizzy, i often feel nauseous, i suffer with ibs, i get tinitus a very dry mouth i get achey, i have food intolerances, i get low blood suger the list goes on. i have been virtually bedridden for the last two years, we had to move house 100 miles away to have family support, my husband had to give up a very well paid job, to care for me, he does all the cooking, cleaning, chores and shopping, school runs child care and he is my full time carer you name it he has to do it, i a m totally dependant on him.

My anxiety does affect me but differently to how it used to, i used to be terrified of every little thing the slightest pain or sign i would fly in to full panic, i wasn't ill then, now i am ill i don't assume the worst about my health, i know that is nothing serious but i just worry about the way i feel and if my husband has to do something i worry about being left alone as i am stuck in bed, i am not sure how much of the way i feel is caused by physical illness and how much is caused by my own anxieties. but i am so fed up and can sympathise with anyone who suffers chronically like i do.