I think yes,in the beginning....you have a good chance to turn around this before it turns ugly and gets worse and worse. I just have read your introduction post.you said your reacting to gluten .it's highly inflammatory and the protein can cause a reaction and can create antibodiesi can still do some exercices, maybe 300-500 push ups in a day and i feel better right after it, while i read that cfs/me patients have exerices intolerance.
But i seems to have pretty much all other symptoms and doctor think it's cfs, so what is your opinion?
Well if you really dont Build Up lactic Acid that means you are in a very early stage of CFS with an viral infection or its something bacterial like Lyme.
i can still do some exercices, maybe 300-500 push ups in a day and i feel better right after it, while i read that cfs/me patients have exerices intolerance.
But i seems to have pretty much all other symptoms and doctor think it's cfs, so what is your opinion?
Certainly early on I was doing exercises and activity, I had constant headaches, dizziness, some sleep issues and GI issues but I could happily do 45 minutes of cardio 3x a week and do resistance training. I was also doing vestibular training (ENTs thought my headaches might be that) and for some reason doing just a little too much of that was my first crash. A few minutes into a session and the constant metronome noise started hammering into my head and I couldn't stand the noise and got really light sensitive and dizzy, I had barely started. Session cut short 30 minutes later on my way home I lost power throughout my body, I couldn't walk. I called 999but they weren't concerned, I tried 111 also but they didn't have much to say to help me. I called a cab (with a strong person to help me and bless them the guy was huge!) and went home. I was stuck in bed with crippling pain and blinding headaches for months.
I got no warning it was coming, I had a few of the symptoms of ME/CFS but I had constantly jumped over it as a possible cause because I clearly didn't have PEM, I was infact getting quite a bit fitter from the exercise my GP had prescribed me. Then boom and I have been mostly housebound ever since. I have no idea if you are in the same sort of place as me and running near the ragged line of moments from that crash that ruins your life or you have something else, but what I would say is there isn't a lot of harm of easing off a bit until you work it out especially if your GP thinks it might be ME doing everything you can to avoid a crash will sustain your ability longer, because once you loose it it rarely comes back and you do not want to be bed bound for 90% of your day for years on end in crippling agony.
The one thing ME has taught me is that our insistence of pushing through and exercise being the cure all is a complete lie and a dangerous one at that.
I was able to do moderate exercise in the first years of my ME, when mental exhaustion was already debilitating me down to half time or less of work. I would still have a much harder time recovering than healthy people, and couldn't sustain jogging or improve at strenuous exercise, but I could still do some.
Until I couldn't.
I can do even less now physically and mentally and it has never gone back to the more 'mild' stage, which was debilitating enough to make it awkward to try and function in the world.
Be careful. You don't always get much warning that you've gone too far one too many times.
Oh, you did make me laugh!If you can do 300 to 500 pushups in a day, you should be asking "Am I human?"
Yes. It is possible. It could be that your CFS is entirely cognitive, where cognitive exertion induces PEM (mine was like that or many years). Or it could be that your CFS is mild and you were already in excellent shape prior to getting CFS.i can still do some exercices, maybe 300-500 push ups in a day and i feel better right after it, while i read that cfs/me patients have exerices intolerance.
But i seems to have pretty much all other symptoms and doctor think it's cfs, so what is your opinion?
Lol right? I mean, very possible if you are an athlete and/or do pushups a lot. I've probably done that many in one day at my fittest during the military. But I was going to say, that depending on initial fitness levels, if you exercise (300-500 pushups) are well within your exercise capacity, then you could not show any CFS consequences. But to have 300-500 pushups be mild enough to not influence CFS, your starting fitness level would have to be elite levels.If you can do 300 to 500 pushups in a day, you should be asking "Am I human?"
If you can do 300 to 500 pushups in a day, you should be asking "Am I human?"