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relapsing /remitting is this normal?

bspg

Plant Queen
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USA
If I just quietly concentrate on what I need to do ie. chores around the house, making food, showering; I'm fine but if there's some emotional stress or big thinking involved then I just shut down.
I've also noticed I suffer very quickly from hypoglycaemia if I do any thinking or serious reading.
Although I should add that I'm not massively able to do physical stuff like exercise.

So glad I found this thread. I've been able to do things recently that I haven't been able to do for months and it's freaking me out. "Am I suddenly cured? Is this all in my head? Did I never even have ME to begin with??"

I feel great on the summer, and then in the fall i go down fast and hard, it takes me all winter months and some of the spring to recover!. Is the same path every year for the last 9 years.

This is me too. I do better in the late spring and summer then get much worst throughout the fall and winter.

I wonder what would cause this relapsing/remitting in ME?
 

Seven7

Seven
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USA
Another observation I thgouht the problem was fall per say, but now I wonder if it is the cold weather. This year has been very unusual that we get like cold and warm weather. When the cold weather came after a few days of warm, I had Cfs back and I was like what the heck I was doing so well, then the warm came back and I was back in remission state. So these days the Cfs is on and off , the only things I can see is the cold ( and I mean like winter feeling cold) changing, I will
Keep observing. But it is as if
My body has a winter switch lately!!!