I discovered a long time ago that sleep deprivation helped my CFS. I used to have a job where I worked all day and then once in awhile would have to work all night. If I was having a bad day with my CFS, I found that around 2 AM the symptoms starting subsiding and by an hour later they were completely gone. It was predictable and a great relief to me but unfortunately after sleeping the next day they all returned.
Has sleep deprivation ever helped your symptoms?
I get a similar thing
@RuralRick
I've always been a little bit of a "night owl" inasmuch as I have always been comfortable going to sleep about 1-2am and waking up about 9 ish. Even when perfectly well and fit.
But since being unwell I have found the same thing as you. If I am sleep deprived I will feel tired, yes...but I won't feel unwell.
I cannot understand that.
I can feel I desperately need a really good sleep, so I get one and wake up feeling not too bad....take a shower, start to get ready, and eat breakfast.....and within an hour or two feel weaker, exhausted (that feeling I used to get when I had really pushed it for days on end and then got 10 hours sleep.) Like I've slept well but have not recovered quite yet.
Only in the past a couple more nights of 8 hours sleep would put my energy to rights, now it doesn't.
It's got so bad sometimes I have wondered (seriously) if I'm in my last days. I have wondered seriously if I will see out the winter.
And then a weird thing happens. The sun goes down and I literally feel better.
I am getting that right this minute. It's WAY past bedtime and I am hedging about going to sleep though it used to be such a nice thing to do when tired at the end of the day. I just know I will wake up feeling okay, then within two hours I will be a wet rag for the rest of the day until sundown. Too weird. Never look forward to tomorrow any more, if you know what I mean.
I have thought it might be because I have eaten dinner and am reaping the benefits of that....I honestly don't know.