Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    tiredallthetime

    Ultradude - well, my condition is not literary "chronic", more "recurrent". Sometimes I have a few rough weeks a couple of times a year. This is not too bad. Other times I am more bad than good for months and months. This is bad, although I am able to drag myself to work and do some low-quality work. Perhaps you have heard about Chronic Fatigue Disease: people who are not able to work because of...well...chronic fatigue, and the doctors can not find any explanation. That's just the tip of the iceberg. There are so many out there struggeling as best as they can to do the day's work that is expected of them, go home and straight to bed, and wake up the next morning feeling like they haven't slept for a second. Mental, physical and outside factors all plays a role, I think. It's probably impossible to pinpoint one exact reason. Change lifestyle/career/location? Easier said than done, for all sorts of reasons (family being one of them). And I can have long periods when I am feeling great and love my work. But the medicine the last doctor gave me does help me, I just try to be careful not to get too addicted to them. Sorry for the self-pity, just felt like explaining what chronic or recurrent fatigue/exhaustion/tiredness feels like.

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    tiredallthetime

    Tiredness and exhaustion is one of the most common complaints to the doctors, and a very difficult one to diagnosis. You take the normal batch of blood test, they turn out fine. You start exercising, eating more healthy and take a multivitamin. Still you feel tired and exhausted. The doctor says “There is nothing wrong with you, you just need to relax more.” How? Quitting your job? I’ve been like that, on and off for the last 6 years, and it’s just so frustrating. When I say tired and exhausted, I don’t mean the kind of tiredness cured by a good night’s sleep, but waking up feeling like you haven’t slept a second, in addition to mild flu-like symptoms, headache, low-grade-fever, etc., lasting for weeks. What do you tell your boss? “Sorry my work is crap nowadays, but I just feel so tired!” Answer: “Get some sleep, exercise, eat healthy and take multivitamins. Take it easy (but don’t forget about that deadline)” . Tiredness and exhaustion is one of the major diseases if our time, but still it is still quite invisible, because people don’t get a formal diagnosis, and many manage somehow to cling on to their job. A UK doctor I went to told me: “It’s just Life with a capital L.” A J-doctor I went to gave me the IV drip, and it did help me somewhat. Another J-doctor gave me medicine with relaxation/sedative/anti-depressant effects, and it helped me even more.

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