A week or maybe 2 ago I started researching what friends did for chronic fatigue. I found treatment with several minerals and vitamins. I started with magnesium. I've not had any side effects from the magnesium. And I think it may have gave me a speck more energy. It was helping to drop my blood pressure the first few days but that has now disappeared. Last night I started B12. I got in in tablet form but I am wondering now if I should look for a desolvable. I heard it gets into your blood stream faster and absorbs better. If anyone can help with advice on this one would be great. The last few mornings I have woke up and had the thought of getting on the treadmill. Seven years ago I had this thought every morning. I started working out when I started high school. I was not able to play games because of my coordination issues and I know today it could also not have been good if I had been hit in or around the shunt. Exercise always made me feel better and without it I have lost a lot of strength and muscle tone. I'm sure to get back to an exercise routine will help my fatigue also. With waking up with a workout on my mind is a big deal. I have never been a morning person but I have the last few years really hated mornings. I wake up hurting because I have slept off all my pain medicine. My head is hurting and I ache all over. Often have a good bit of back pain also. I'm still waking up in pain and achy I grab for a cracker or a fiber pop tart. Just something to eat with pain medicine to keep it from hurting my stomach. I have learned to tolerate a lot of the pain but the fatigue on top makes things so much worse. All my pain management doctors have always thought to help the pain and it would decrease the fatigue. Well no one can take the pain away. Some medicine can decrease the pain but I still have it. I think having the faulty shunt for 14 months and so so many surgeries trying to fix the problem has just caused me the constant pain. You can't just have surgery after surgery every 3 months and not have damage. I am thankful that I did not have worse damage than I do. My memory has suffered. My coordination is worse and my balance went from barely noticeable to I need a cane. Not all the time but it keeps from very embarrassing falls in front of people. I mostly have the falls when I don't use the cane. But I still have my moments. With the vitamins I'm trying I hope to get back to exercising and with building my muscles back I think will help my balance or at least maybe it will help me to catch myself quicker.
Last night I started B12. I got in in tablet form but I am wondering now if I should look for a desolvable. I heard it gets into your blood stream faster and absorbs better. If anyone can help with advice on this one would be great.
The last few mornings I have woke up and had the thought of getting on the treadmill. Seven years ago I had this thought every morning. I started working out when I started high school. I was not able to play games because of my coordination issues and I know today it could also not have been good if I had been hit in or around the shunt.
Exercise always made me feel better and without it I have lost a lot of strength and muscle tone. I'm sure to get back to an exercise routine will help my fatigue also.
With waking up with a workout on my mind is a big deal. I have never been a morning person but I have the last few years really hated mornings. I wake up hurting because I have slept off all my pain medicine. My head is hurting and I ache all over. Often have a good bit of back pain also.
I'm still waking up in pain and achy I grab for a cracker or a fiber pop tart. Just something to eat with pain medicine to keep it from hurting my stomach. I have learned to tolerate a lot of the pain but the fatigue on top makes things so much worse.
All my pain management doctors have always thought to help the pain and it would decrease the fatigue. Well no one can take the pain away. Some medicine can decrease the pain but I still have it. I think having the faulty shunt for 14 months and so so many surgeries trying to fix the problem has just caused me the constant pain. You can't just have surgery after surgery every 3 months and not have damage.
I am thankful that I did not have worse damage than I do. My memory has suffered. My coordination is worse and my balance went from barely noticeable to I need a cane. Not all the time but it keeps from very embarrassing falls in front of people. I mostly have the falls when I don't use the cane. But I still have my moments.
With the vitamins I'm trying I hope to get back to exercising and with building my muscles back I think will help my balance or at least maybe it will help me to catch myself quicker.