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pain and fatigue

fibrosucks
fibrosucks
Seems I am so tired lately. When I get tired I start to ache. If I take a nap the pain is gone when I wake up until I start feeling tired again. Does this happen to anyone else. I have been sleeping 12-14 hours a day off and on.
MAGICpill
MAGICpill
I hardly ever sleep. Sounds more like your thyroid acting up then fibro,

Do you take B12, Vit D3, calcium. magnesium? They seem to help me if I remember to take them.
skinnybinny
skinnybinny
My thyroid is fine and I sleep like that when I get really bad. I took three 2 hr naps today and I'm still tired but you know I won't be able to sleep tonight.
deleted_user
deleted_user
For me, fatigue, has always been one of the worse symptoms of FMS. I was dx with FMS in 1997. But 3 years ago, I started doing what you are doing Fibrosucks. Sleeping 12-14 hours a day. Finally, got dx with adrenal fatigue about 1.5 years ago. They put me on various hormones, however, this year I was diagnosed with B.C. Not allowed to take hormones any more. Check with your doctor about Vitamin D. I take 10,000 mg a day (sometimes 15,000 if I'm going to be doing anything.) Still fatigued, but nothing like the sleeping hours on end. Good luck!!!! Also, there is a great book about adrenal fatigue, called "adrenal fatigue," LOL.
MAGICpill
MAGICpill
Trish thanks for telling her about adrenal fatigue, I didnt know if that was the same as cfs or thyroid problems,.

Maybe when she wakes up she will read what you wrote.
deleted_user
deleted_user
When i remember to take my D-ribose regularly i feel less exausted and more mentaly alert.But i still take 2 hour naps.Hate the time lost but what can you do.I think its chronic fatigue and fibro although im just diagnosed with fibro.
deleted_user
deleted_user
mjadaa, from what I understand, FMS is very closely connected to CFS, except FMS has the pain associated with it. Adrenal Fatigue is also connected to FMS. If I'm not mistaken (and I could be - Fibro Fog, you know!) but some researchers are thinking that if you have FMS, you are prone to get these other things. FMS is really a bummer. But the good news is that they recognizing it as being real, more and more. One of things that I have
noticed, is that FMS seems to be hitting younger and younger people and possibly not so gender biased. I was about 43 when I was DX.
fibrosucks
fibrosucks
I take 5000 IU of D3 daily.