paul80
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Hi all.
Nice forum you have here.
I wonder if anyone can help me. Ive had m.e about 15 years and I am 31 years of age. Ive just started Dr Myhills treatment plan.
Ive been on the stone age diet about 2 weeks and it is affecting me strangely. After only a few days I felt quite good. I felt less fatigue and less brain fog. After a few days more I suddenly felt extreme amounts of energy, so I went from very low energy to extremely high energy. I was able to do much more and still felt fine the following day. My muscles would usually be sore and I would be tired the day after a lot of activity. This high energy only lasted about 4-5 days and then I had a big crash on Tuesday. I felt terrible, my legs were very sore and fatigued (I think I used them to much during the 4-5 days). I had to lie down most of the day as even my eyes were sore.
I recovered a small amount each day since Tuesday and today I feel almost at my usual level of illness. Ive managed to stick with the diet but it has been hard.
The other thing I noticed since I started the diet is that my sleep has been disturbed, I seem to wake up about every 3-4 hours. I go to bed about 9:30 and wake up about 12:00-1:00. I can fall asleep straight away again then but I wake again about 4:00-5:00. When I had the high energy I couldnt get back to sleep after that so I only got about 6-7 hours of sleep. When I had the crash and was ill I woke at the same intervals but I was able to sleep again after the last wakening.
Before this diet I had quite a bad diet, lots of carbs chips pizza pastry etc. and also sweets, crisps, cakes. But my sleep was mostly fine, I never woke during the night.
So at the moment Im hoping the sleep disturbance will lessen once my body gets used to the diet as it has only been 2 weeks. But that might be wishful thinking. Im also hoping I dont go back into the high energy/crash.
Any ideas or information anyone had on either of these issues would be greatly appreciated.
Nice forum you have here.
I wonder if anyone can help me. Ive had m.e about 15 years and I am 31 years of age. Ive just started Dr Myhills treatment plan.
Ive been on the stone age diet about 2 weeks and it is affecting me strangely. After only a few days I felt quite good. I felt less fatigue and less brain fog. After a few days more I suddenly felt extreme amounts of energy, so I went from very low energy to extremely high energy. I was able to do much more and still felt fine the following day. My muscles would usually be sore and I would be tired the day after a lot of activity. This high energy only lasted about 4-5 days and then I had a big crash on Tuesday. I felt terrible, my legs were very sore and fatigued (I think I used them to much during the 4-5 days). I had to lie down most of the day as even my eyes were sore.
I recovered a small amount each day since Tuesday and today I feel almost at my usual level of illness. Ive managed to stick with the diet but it has been hard.
The other thing I noticed since I started the diet is that my sleep has been disturbed, I seem to wake up about every 3-4 hours. I go to bed about 9:30 and wake up about 12:00-1:00. I can fall asleep straight away again then but I wake again about 4:00-5:00. When I had the high energy I couldnt get back to sleep after that so I only got about 6-7 hours of sleep. When I had the crash and was ill I woke at the same intervals but I was able to sleep again after the last wakening.
Before this diet I had quite a bad diet, lots of carbs chips pizza pastry etc. and also sweets, crisps, cakes. But my sleep was mostly fine, I never woke during the night.
So at the moment Im hoping the sleep disturbance will lessen once my body gets used to the diet as it has only been 2 weeks. But that might be wishful thinking. Im also hoping I dont go back into the high energy/crash.
Any ideas or information anyone had on either of these issues would be greatly appreciated.