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Hi everyone...I have been so weak and exhausted lately. I think its a combo of vertigo and stomach stuff and having to do the TPN, but I just have no energy lately at all.
I am usually an insomniac, but lately I find myself sleeping a lot more. When I wake up from sleeping however I do not feel refreshed-sometimes I feel even more exhausted.
Not having any energy is really depressing me. Its like an effort to get off my couch and I am someone who needs to do a lot to feel ok about herself, so its just really frustrating.
I take B12 and magnesium..any other hints to bring my energy up? I tried provigil for awhile but it increased my twitches and tremors so I had to stop it. thanks. Jess.
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Doing adrenal supplements has really helped me. I could sleep all day everyday, but it takes the edge off. Licorice Plus, Adrenal Complex, Adapten-All and LDN may help.
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Are you treating babesia? It is usually the culprit when you want to sleep all the time and it also causes profound fatigue and vertigo. It is best to treat babesia with mepron or malarone and zithro or biaxin. Rounds of Coartem are vey helpful.
Don't take magnesium unless you have tested negative for protomyxzoa or you will strengthen the biofilm. You need to be careful when you treat babesia that you don't make protomyxzoa stronger. PR thrives on fat so if you take the requires amount of fat for the malaria drugs, then the PR can multiply 100 times faster. There is some new research that shows it is best to take EDTA with phosphytidylcholine.
Take methyl B12 or hydroxy B12. Acetyl L Carnitine, Co Q 10 and NADH are all good for fatigue but nothing will do any good until you address the infection causing it.
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Hi-yes I am serum positive for babs. I am allergic to mepron however, so that is out as a treatment option.
I do not eat much fat at all...and good tip about the magnesium, I was unaware of that.
I wonder if some of this fatigue is just my body finally breaking down from so many months of running on fumes. When you are a 31 year old woman and you are currently at your highest weight in almost a year, and that weight is a whopping 87 pounds, I suppose that alone is bound to make you tired too. Jess.
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I think when our bodies go into repair / rebuild mode, we feel very tired. That is one way our body can "talk" to us so we slow down and give it time to do its job.
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It sounds like your body is telling you to let it rest so it can finally work on healing up now that its got something to work with! Don't beat yourself up about it - rest and recover.
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I have Babesia and slept 11 hours last night. I just need to sleep right now. I agree, my doc told me sleep is the silent nurse, I am letting her do the job.
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Thanks everyone...and cozy, I like that idea of sleep being "the silent nurse"..that is such a cool way to look at it. Jess.
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