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I've had this problem for a long time but it's been getting worse lately since I began working from home.
If I don't have something specific to wake up in the morning for, I will sleep all day until around 2pm. It doesn't matter what time I go to bed.
However, if I have something to wake up for—like work or something to attend—I will wake up but stay in bed until the last possible moment.
Part of me feels like this is my body's way of conserving energy it knows it needs due to Lyme. I'm not a lazy person. When I am awake I am extremely productive and always have tons of projects I'm working on. I am very driven, which makes this bother me even more.
If I force myself to wake up at a decent hour, say 9am, I will get up, get dizzy and tired, and have to lay back down for another few hours.
I just don't know how to kick this.
Does anyone else have this problem?
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oh my yes. this morning I got up at 10. normally I'd be up running around like crazy but lately I'm having dizzy spells and jus don't feel good. nobody around so I stay in bed.
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Keebler
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- [Do check for any Rx side-effects - some that can make you more tired - such as any sleep or mood drugs often do especially when adding to a high liver load to begin with] other than that . . .
It's not that you can't wake up, it's that you have a serious illness. Treatment will help, still, if you need to lie down and rest, do so.
You're not tired (in normal terms -this goes way beyond that). You're ill. You're not unmotivated. You're ill. It's okay. And it's to be expected. Don't judge your body by how it SHOULD feel, were you not to be ill. That's just not where you are at this point in time. And it's okay.
If you are up a while and need to lie back down, do so. This is very important if you have a schedule that can allow that.
If you have a good supportive chair with head support, you might try to be "up" in the chair when you can, especially in the day - or for parts of the day when you might otherwise lie down.
Still, I know for myself, sometimes the brain just MUST lie all the way down. And I read that this really helps the brain for those with complexities of lyme.
The brain needs to lie down, especially if there is hypoperfusion (low blood flow when standing as many with lyme have). Remember that.
You might make the bed in the morning, get dressed and if you lie back down, lie a different direction than how you sleep.
Plan while still lying down what your next activity or task will be. Plan out how you will gather what you need for that, play out in your mind the steps to get that task done. Once you get back up, still to the task. One thing at a time - or part of one thing at a time.
I just read your other thread, you are on very serious medicine for about 2 months now, and that is a really big load on your body. If someone you knew had a really bad case of malaria and was taking medicines, strong meds. would you expect them to get up and live their life as if nothing were wrong? I doubt it.
Be sure you have good LIVER SUPPORT so you can best manage treatment and have the waste move through you, not load you down.
Adrenal support can also help with measured endurance. Still, allow yourself to rest as much as your body tells you it needs.
Do move some, of course, when you can. Gentle walking, light weights, Qi Gong or Restorative Yoga (certainly not power yoga). Move on your bed if that's all you can do.
Allow your body to lie down, though, as it's calling out that is what's needed at this time.
You mention being dizzy. That often goes with lyme & with certain Rx, too. That, alone, could be why your body is craving to lie down.
To be dizzy and have to be up, negotiating with your body to stay upright when the inner ear signals are fighting, well, it's just exhaustion. See detail in the last link below for some things that can help.
Lying, resting with your head at a 30 degree slant is the best position to help the inner ear. Head higher than feet but raise whole torso / head . . . not just the head. Keep good posture even in bed.
GINGER CAPSULES & MAGNESIUM are great help for the inner ear. -
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Keebler
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- Bea has a very good way of zeroing in on the most obvious place to start (whereas I cast a wide net). And I think she's right to start there.
So, zeroing in then on just one adrenal support to start with: CORDYCEPS is a very nice place to begin.
Burrascano recommends it in in supplement section of the guidelines. Many LLMD and LL ND authors recommend it.
When I first started this, it was a very nice welcome. Not too stimulating nor sedating. Just felt like something my body really welcomed.
ASHWAGANDHA is another to consider with similar properties & effects. They can be combined.
[I knew I could not just stick with ONE choice to recommend. Both are just so very nice!]
I would avoid Rhodiola for now, though. It can be a bit too stimulating for some. Maybe later after the basics have a chance to nourish you. -
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Getting glutathione levels might be something to also look at. I use primitive sprouts before they start going green. They are pressed into small tablets that are chewed then swallowed.
Click on the pink brochure called Beauty GP (glutathione peroxidase)
Stabilized rice bran is good for B vitamins to helps build stamina. I like Risotriene.
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Carol in PA
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A, How are you feeling now?
How was the wedding?
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lpkayak
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Sounds like adrensls or possibly thyroid to me. I had that for a long time and i am with new doc with thyroid meds changed and for a month i am almost normal
The doc that got me straightend out is in sea bright nj -not too far for you...
I have known for years glutathione help gives me more energy
Good quality coq10 and alpha lipoic acid or nac
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It's likely to be adrenal fatigue. There's a lot of good information online about it, but you really won't be able to kick it until you get a handle on the Lyme.
It does make you feel lazy. That's okay, you need the rest. Just be sure when you have good hours of the day that you go for a walk or something so you get enough movement in.
This does go away when you get healthy. I had it badly, now I'm one of the first ones up in our house.
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