Sorry for the typo in my title lol. Silly phone.
So on Friday I had more energy and stupidly I decided to shower, cook a good breakfast for my family, another big lunch and meal from scratch for dinner. I put a load of washing away and as my son was going away for the weekend I had to pack all his clothes for him. By 4pm I sat down and started to feel very sick. Which is my first I've over done it sign. Within 2 hours my thighs jusy above the knees started burning which I feel even when lying down. When walking my legs felt wweak esj but heavy and I felt awful walking. All typical crash symptoms.
I woke Saturday morning with the same leg symptoms, feeling very sick, weak but heavy arms, dey mouth, exhausted in head and eyes, feeling faint and low blood pressure, feeling exhausted all over my body and just generally ill like how you feel when recovering from a virus whwn you feel sick and weak. 80% of my symoroms arw the body ones and 20% head and eye fatigue. It's always lile this when I crash. When I tried to walk I felt faint and legs felt weak but like lead and I couldn't even stand to wash my hands after using the toilet. Every toilet trip was terrifying.
That is a typical crash for me and it takes about 48 hours for me to go from a 10/10 in severity to an 8. Now on day 4 it's a 7. Which is my regular daily score. I feel daily weak legged by about 3pm, they go like lead and heavy and I will feel woozy walking. Most evenings my thighs burn after doing 4-5k steps a day. So daily I feel heavy all over and body drained, everything an effort and hard going but as soon as I do any kind of housework a nasty crash happens, I have to be so careful and hubby has had to take over hoovering, mopping etc. It can even hit after any stress. Any upset from my mother who I'm not really in contact with now then I crash badly too. A small trip to the park can also land me in a crash.
Is what I describe normal in a crash (sorry to post again)? I'm switching to a new gp as mine is leaving next week. He's not diagnosed me bur run evey test and still nor given a diagnosis other than saying I'm depressed lol. He asked me to do a detailed letter explaining my symptoms for a handover to my new gp which I did yesterday. I'm hoping this will lead to a diagnosis because the not knowing has led to alot of fesr of why I daily feel so unwell and having no answers is awful. On crash days I cry so much purely out of fear. I've been ill like this 19 months now and all that was found was an underactive thyroid that is now treated and doing ok yet my symptoms this year have got worse.
I'm even considering a wheelchair to try and get out and spend time with my family and nor usr my legs so much because I've become too afraid to go out incase I crash and now I'm worried at the end of every day will I crash again. I've 3 children and I can't not cook and tidy up. I rest when they're in school bur mornings and evenings are pretry hectic.
Julie
So on Friday I had more energy and stupidly I decided to shower, cook a good breakfast for my family, another big lunch and meal from scratch for dinner. I put a load of washing away and as my son was going away for the weekend I had to pack all his clothes for him. By 4pm I sat down and started to feel very sick. Which is my first I've over done it sign. Within 2 hours my thighs jusy above the knees started burning which I feel even when lying down. When walking my legs felt wweak esj but heavy and I felt awful walking. All typical crash symptoms.
I woke Saturday morning with the same leg symptoms, feeling very sick, weak but heavy arms, dey mouth, exhausted in head and eyes, feeling faint and low blood pressure, feeling exhausted all over my body and just generally ill like how you feel when recovering from a virus whwn you feel sick and weak. 80% of my symoroms arw the body ones and 20% head and eye fatigue. It's always lile this when I crash. When I tried to walk I felt faint and legs felt weak but like lead and I couldn't even stand to wash my hands after using the toilet. Every toilet trip was terrifying.
That is a typical crash for me and it takes about 48 hours for me to go from a 10/10 in severity to an 8. Now on day 4 it's a 7. Which is my regular daily score. I feel daily weak legged by about 3pm, they go like lead and heavy and I will feel woozy walking. Most evenings my thighs burn after doing 4-5k steps a day. So daily I feel heavy all over and body drained, everything an effort and hard going but as soon as I do any kind of housework a nasty crash happens, I have to be so careful and hubby has had to take over hoovering, mopping etc. It can even hit after any stress. Any upset from my mother who I'm not really in contact with now then I crash badly too. A small trip to the park can also land me in a crash.
Is what I describe normal in a crash (sorry to post again)? I'm switching to a new gp as mine is leaving next week. He's not diagnosed me bur run evey test and still nor given a diagnosis other than saying I'm depressed lol. He asked me to do a detailed letter explaining my symptoms for a handover to my new gp which I did yesterday. I'm hoping this will lead to a diagnosis because the not knowing has led to alot of fesr of why I daily feel so unwell and having no answers is awful. On crash days I cry so much purely out of fear. I've been ill like this 19 months now and all that was found was an underactive thyroid that is now treated and doing ok yet my symptoms this year have got worse.
I'm even considering a wheelchair to try and get out and spend time with my family and nor usr my legs so much because I've become too afraid to go out incase I crash and now I'm worried at the end of every day will I crash again. I've 3 children and I can't not cook and tidy up. I rest when they're in school bur mornings and evenings are pretry hectic.
Julie