Hello everyone,
I'm having a bit of an odd problem, and I hope you can help with some insights.
I'm not exactly new in the world of intolerances and allergies, in fact I've had the former for 10 years and the latter for all my life (I'm 36 now). What's new ("new" being a year now) is the overwhelming fatigue and sadness.
Since exactly Dec 30th, 2016, while spending a year abroad in the UK working (I'm originally from Germany), I've been in a pretty much constant low mood, coupled with anhedonia and blunted affect. Sometimes it's very present, sometimes it's just underlying. This low mood and lack of feeling is punctuated by days of strong exhaustion, when I feel like all I can do is sit/lie somewhere, whine/complain about it, and cry. In the last few months, I found out that these days of exhaustion and sadness, when I'm crying at the drop of a hat, follow ingestion of animal protein. Dairy, eggs, meat... doesn't matter which. I've had dairy and egg reactions before, but the meat thing is new. I'm vegan now (which I hate), but still the low mood is there, and I've also had a day of complete exhaustion and deep sadness. Right now, I called in sick at work because I can't take it. My work load is not that much, but I'm completely overwhelmed by it.
I had two great days recently, after taking a supplement with tyrosine in it. These two days helped me see that it's not my routine that is overwhelming me, it's "me". Something has happened to me, and now I can't function and everything is too much. However, the effect lasted only two days and the supps did nothing more after that.
If I should describe the picture I have of me in my head right now, it's of an exhausted person on her hands and knees, panting, and trying to get up but not yet being able to.
I know CFS involves a lot more than "just" the fatigue, I hope to find some information that helps. Can this be the way into CFS? What can I do? Where can I look? I've had a lot of tests done, but I'm still in research mode.
Thank you for reading!
Nanina
I'm having a bit of an odd problem, and I hope you can help with some insights.
I'm not exactly new in the world of intolerances and allergies, in fact I've had the former for 10 years and the latter for all my life (I'm 36 now). What's new ("new" being a year now) is the overwhelming fatigue and sadness.
Since exactly Dec 30th, 2016, while spending a year abroad in the UK working (I'm originally from Germany), I've been in a pretty much constant low mood, coupled with anhedonia and blunted affect. Sometimes it's very present, sometimes it's just underlying. This low mood and lack of feeling is punctuated by days of strong exhaustion, when I feel like all I can do is sit/lie somewhere, whine/complain about it, and cry. In the last few months, I found out that these days of exhaustion and sadness, when I'm crying at the drop of a hat, follow ingestion of animal protein. Dairy, eggs, meat... doesn't matter which. I've had dairy and egg reactions before, but the meat thing is new. I'm vegan now (which I hate), but still the low mood is there, and I've also had a day of complete exhaustion and deep sadness. Right now, I called in sick at work because I can't take it. My work load is not that much, but I'm completely overwhelmed by it.
I had two great days recently, after taking a supplement with tyrosine in it. These two days helped me see that it's not my routine that is overwhelming me, it's "me". Something has happened to me, and now I can't function and everything is too much. However, the effect lasted only two days and the supps did nothing more after that.
If I should describe the picture I have of me in my head right now, it's of an exhausted person on her hands and knees, panting, and trying to get up but not yet being able to.
I know CFS involves a lot more than "just" the fatigue, I hope to find some information that helps. Can this be the way into CFS? What can I do? Where can I look? I've had a lot of tests done, but I'm still in research mode.
Thank you for reading!
Nanina