You describe how I feel most of the time very well. Exertion above and beyond my limit serves only to exacerbate this. Do you find it the same with mental exertion as with physical? I certainly do but I also find that if I 'push' one then I cannot do - or can do to a lesser extent - the other. Weird, huh?
My reference to 'malaise' was the
feeling of being 'run-down' as if something was running me down as in I was getting the flu. Again, I feel this most of the time, but exertion above and beyond my limits exacerbates this. What you describe above I would suggest are
specific symptoms and as I said they would apply to me as well.
The thing is I guess is how to quantify them and to measure that they are 'worse' after exertion and/or 'better' after 'rest' - a conundrum? Or can this be done at the moment if the 'right' tests were applied I wonder?[/QUO
No it's not weird but I have ME so I understand this very well.
If I push my mental exertion it will affect my physical stamina, for instance, if I calculate or try to figure out instructions for too long my calves get sore/tired and I lose my balance. I have to lie down and try to completely rest my mind. If I overdo physically my mental comprehension is gone too. One affects the other.
When I'm feeling viral my stamina is worse but I dont' get PENE, more like insomnia, dizziness, malaise etc.
Where I am different than you is that I don't feel like this all the time so I know that when I rest and I mean rest=doing nothing the PENE will go away after 2 days and then I go back to baseline.
I would like to have a test done to measure the blood flow to the brain when I exercise. When I experience PENE I feel like there is less blood flowing to my brain, I feel pressure in my head as though I've been hanging upside down for 20 minutes.
