Hello Everyone,
I have a concern i would like to share with you all and hopefully, with you being on the outside looking in, you can give me a different perspective of what I see.
I feel like i have been sleeping way too much. I literally get sleepy after doing the smallest of chores some days.. like washing the dishes.
I have gone through a change in meds for my fibro, but it just kept me sleepy. I have been off those meds for a few weeks now.
When i do sleep (nap) i am told i snore loud and hard like i'm exhausted and i sleep from 2 -5 hrs most days.
I go to bed around 12 or 1am and wake up 9am. I can drink a cup or 2 of coffee and by 11am i'm sleepy again. I'll lay down and next thing i know its 2 or 3pm.
The only meds i take that can make me sleepy now is the amytriptaline, at its smallest dose and i take it at night and i sleep well at night. Its just the day time I worry about. I'm worried because it feels like a depression.. I don't really want to get out of my temperpedic bed, I just want to stay there. Im not interested in getting up to shower or eat and if I could get someone else to go to the bathroom for me i would. I have things to do but i just don't want to do them,, my dog has to fuss at me to get me up.
My last doctors visit upset me because he fussed at me about losing more weight. He said its not the air that is causing my weight and that it comes from somthing i do.
It upset me because i worked very hard to be able to maintain my weight for a year. And i told him all of this. I walked on the treadmill,, bought a recumbant bike so when my back hurts i can still exercise. And here he is saying, its not good enough. He has no idea what it feels like to have fibromyalgia,lupus and 2 slipped disks in my lower back while walking on a treadmill for an hour every day,, or how to deal with the aftermath. I had to drug myself beyond belief to exercise. I literally ate one meal a day,the rest was a piece of fruit her,, lots of water and sugar free gum.
I was so upset i have stopped working out.
I'm beginning to like staying home by myself, so when my husband is traveling for work i'm releived. No lunches to make or dinners to prepare.
I also don't like leaving the house,, i don't want to see my nosey neighbors and be talked to death about nothing. I get my mail after dark. I'm starting to live without certain things because i don't want to go out to the store to get things.
I usually travel with my husband when he drives to nearby states for business, so i can enjoy room service and the indoor pool by myself most times. But i don't really want to go these days.
My memory has been terrible as well,, hubby wrote out a list of his itnerary for business travel and things I needed to do while he was away, like pick up his dry cleaning. The list sat on the kitchen table big as day with yellow and pink highlights and arrows all over it so i could see it and won't forget.
I forgot to look at the list. I had to get up 6am to pick up his clothes the day of his travel so he would have somethng to wear for the next week.
I don't know if this is depression,, laziness,,, defiance or a different type of flare, i have never experienced before..
From what i have written i'm hoping someone can relate and give me some ideas of what to do about it.
Thanks again,
I have a concern i would like to share with you all and hopefully, with you being on the outside looking in, you can give me a different perspective of what I see.
I feel like i have been sleeping way too much. I literally get sleepy after doing the smallest of chores some days.. like washing the dishes.
I have gone through a change in meds for my fibro, but it just kept me sleepy. I have been off those meds for a few weeks now.
When i do sleep (nap) i am told i snore loud and hard like i'm exhausted and i sleep from 2 -5 hrs most days.
I go to bed around 12 or 1am and wake up 9am. I can drink a cup or 2 of coffee and by 11am i'm sleepy again. I'll lay down and next thing i know its 2 or 3pm.
The only meds i take that can make me sleepy now is the amytriptaline, at its smallest dose and i take it at night and i sleep well at night. Its just the day time I worry about. I'm worried because it feels like a depression.. I don't really want to get out of my temperpedic bed, I just want to stay there. Im not interested in getting up to shower or eat and if I could get someone else to go to the bathroom for me i would. I have things to do but i just don't want to do them,, my dog has to fuss at me to get me up.
My last doctors visit upset me because he fussed at me about losing more weight. He said its not the air that is causing my weight and that it comes from somthing i do.
It upset me because i worked very hard to be able to maintain my weight for a year. And i told him all of this. I walked on the treadmill,, bought a recumbant bike so when my back hurts i can still exercise. And here he is saying, its not good enough. He has no idea what it feels like to have fibromyalgia,lupus and 2 slipped disks in my lower back while walking on a treadmill for an hour every day,, or how to deal with the aftermath. I had to drug myself beyond belief to exercise. I literally ate one meal a day,the rest was a piece of fruit her,, lots of water and sugar free gum.
I was so upset i have stopped working out.
I'm beginning to like staying home by myself, so when my husband is traveling for work i'm releived. No lunches to make or dinners to prepare.
I also don't like leaving the house,, i don't want to see my nosey neighbors and be talked to death about nothing. I get my mail after dark. I'm starting to live without certain things because i don't want to go out to the store to get things.
I usually travel with my husband when he drives to nearby states for business, so i can enjoy room service and the indoor pool by myself most times. But i don't really want to go these days.
My memory has been terrible as well,, hubby wrote out a list of his itnerary for business travel and things I needed to do while he was away, like pick up his dry cleaning. The list sat on the kitchen table big as day with yellow and pink highlights and arrows all over it so i could see it and won't forget.
I forgot to look at the list. I had to get up 6am to pick up his clothes the day of his travel so he would have somethng to wear for the next week.
I don't know if this is depression,, laziness,,, defiance or a different type of flare, i have never experienced before..
From what i have written i'm hoping someone can relate and give me some ideas of what to do about it.
Thanks again,