bertiedog
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I have been struggling all this year with bad fatigue and bad pain in my muscles, especially my shoulders and it has now radiated a bit down the top of my right arm. I also have sciatica which varies day to day.
It seems to be the result of a gradual downward slide last year, probably due to too much ongoing stress caused by an obnoxious women who was in charge of volunteers where I used to do voluntary work for just 2 sessions a week. I had been doing that for nearly 10 years and used to love it but I had to give it up mid January because my ME had completely flared and I was too unwell to continue. I thought I would bounce back but it just hasn't happened.
My adrenals don't function so I have to take a steroid daily and this would have added to my problem because of the extra stress last year and probably I didn't stress dose enough. Some days recently I have taken a little more (7.5mg Prednisolone) and for the first day I noticed an improvement, did a little more and then by the 3rd day of the higher dose felt back to where I was. with no improvement in pain.
My muscles are especially affected and wondered if anyone here has had success with this sort of problem by taking specific supplements. I already take around 400 mg magnesium citrate/glycinate, omega 3, vitamins e and a, lots of the b vitamins, glucosamine/chrondroitin, vitamin C, high dose antioxidant, low dose calcium citrate, and probably a few others I cannot remember at the moment.
Whenever my GP has ordered a blood test when I am like this it comes back low CRP and low ESR which always surprised me. I have some osteoarthritis which also flares when I am like this.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Pam
It seems to be the result of a gradual downward slide last year, probably due to too much ongoing stress caused by an obnoxious women who was in charge of volunteers where I used to do voluntary work for just 2 sessions a week. I had been doing that for nearly 10 years and used to love it but I had to give it up mid January because my ME had completely flared and I was too unwell to continue. I thought I would bounce back but it just hasn't happened.
My adrenals don't function so I have to take a steroid daily and this would have added to my problem because of the extra stress last year and probably I didn't stress dose enough. Some days recently I have taken a little more (7.5mg Prednisolone) and for the first day I noticed an improvement, did a little more and then by the 3rd day of the higher dose felt back to where I was. with no improvement in pain.
My muscles are especially affected and wondered if anyone here has had success with this sort of problem by taking specific supplements. I already take around 400 mg magnesium citrate/glycinate, omega 3, vitamins e and a, lots of the b vitamins, glucosamine/chrondroitin, vitamin C, high dose antioxidant, low dose calcium citrate, and probably a few others I cannot remember at the moment.
Whenever my GP has ordered a blood test when I am like this it comes back low CRP and low ESR which always surprised me. I have some osteoarthritis which also flares when I am like this.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Pam