Kati
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Hi @douglasmich I wonder whether you are suffering from orthostatic intolerance, which can give a great deal of cognitive fog and intense desire to lay back down again.HI.
One of my most troubling symptoms is the feeling of "stress". Most people feel stress when they are thinking about 100 different things, multitasking, deadlines etc but this is not the case for me.
For example today i needed to make a recipe so i started to google it. I felt unbearable stress just from looking through different recopies and trying to figure out if i have the correct ingredients. After i finally select a recipe i have to lie down for an hour to just recover from the mental load of printing a recipe!
And that's just the start. When i make the recipe my brain is just being fried the whole time. And the worst part if cleaning up afterwards. The stress from cleaning up feels like what i would have felt 5 years ago from doing 24 hours of intense mathametics study AND and exam the next day. After i eat the meal i have to lie down again not due to fatigue but due to brain fatigue (if thats even a term).
The same goes for juicing vegetables. The stress is debilitating.
The only way to describe it is that my thoughts are always in the present. Im not worrying about the future or the past. But my brain feels like its being fried and i feel immense stress. Its like the stress from thinking too much except im not thinking ! Is this glutamate toxicity?
Just wondering if anyone else experiences this, and if they know the cause.
Thinking requires a whole deal of blood flow to the brain, and when the blood flow is altered to start with, doing so veryically is often more than what we can deal with.
Here is how I deal with it for myself:
-Break down tasks into steps. Do one task for 1-2 minutes, then go lay down for 15 minutes. For instance, if I need to empty the dishwasher, I will break it down in 3 steps for each levels and the silverware.
-have a stool in your kitchen. Everything you can do sitting, by all means, sit. Gather all the food you need to prep, sit down and peel/cut the veggies. Go lay down again.
- if you are worried about leaving a pot on the stove, set a timer.
- everything you can do laying down, do. Oftentime I even eat laying down.
-computer searches requires a lot of thinking power. Math calculations is known to crash me... So I have an ipad and I do that while horizontal.
- I cannot talk and stand. Requires too much thinking and orthostatic stresss. Sit, or lay down.
i hope it helps.
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