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Posted 1/24/2013 11:13 PM (GMT 0)
I have been doing better with my insomnia, which started to improve about the time I began Cymbalta. I don't know if it is helping, or if it is coincidence, but I have been sleeping better and earlier. I have only had a couple nights that I couldn't sleep. It is just that yesterday and today I have slept so much it is silly. I went to bed early Tuesday and woke up late yesterday. I fell asleep early yesterday evening, and woke up at 8pm, just to fall back to sleep at 10pm. I slept in until about noon or so (I was up for probably 1/2 hour this morning, but that was it). Now here it is, 6pm, and I am ready to sleep yet again! I know insomnia isn't good for you but it seems like I have swung the other way and am sleeping all day. I wish I wasn't so tired. I would think that with the sleep I am getting that I would not be tired like this.
Posted 1/25/2013 12:03 AM (GMT 0)
Who knows what our bodies are doing, sometimes. If it keeps on, I would get it checked. I cannot do statins for that reason. I stll don't remember Christmas 210, for that reason.
Posted 1/25/2013 3:26 AM (GMT 0)
I talked with my Cpap doctor about me not being able to go to bed at a decent hour. She looked at my record and said you're getting 8 hours of sleep it's just it's out of sync to everyone else.
Posted 1/25/2013 3:40 AM (GMT 0)
I am not surprised if I am out of sync with the rest of the world. My doctors have been trying to get me back on a good schedule for a while. Several years ago, when I was going to bed when I should, I had to have a minimum of 10 hours of sleep to feel normal. The last two days, I think I have had 15 to 16 hours of sleep each day, and I am still tired. I don't know. Maybe my body is trying to catch up on the lack of sleep I have had for the past year or so (or more if you count when I made myself stay awake studying for the two years prior to that).

I think the fatigue (in general) is due to whatever autoimmune thing is going on, but the past two days have been beyond what typically happens. I don't think anything is wrong, per-se, but it is just out of the norm, even for me. After I put this up, I did fall asleep again until about 8. Hopefullly I will be able to sleep tonight. :)
Posted 1/25/2013 3:59 AM (GMT 0)
Yes, Autoimmune on top of fibro is a double whammy of fatigue.
Posted 1/25/2013 4:12 AM (GMT 0)
Have you had your Vitamin D levels checked recently? When my levels are down, my fatigue and achiness level is up. If your fatigue level continues where you need that much sleep, I'd let your doc know.

Good luck to you :)

Hugs, Robin
Posted 1/25/2013 4:22 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks Robin (and Joy). I do have low D, so my dr has me taking 50k units a week. I also have to have a B12 shot monthly and have to take a prenatal vitamin (because it has a good iron level - not because I am pregnant) along with two huge calcium pills daily. I have my blood levels checked (vitamin levels) every three months. As of two months ago, my B12 and D were okay, but my iron was low (as was my thyroid, but that is a different issue). I do plan on mentioning this to one of my docs if it continues, but I will not be able to get into my rhumey for at least a month (I can see one of his partners, but not him), which is when I have an appt with him anyway.

I do have a test pending from my PCP. I have been having upper abdominal pain, and she wants to see if a CT scan will rule things out. I already had an upper and lower endo, and they were fine. It could be that my fatigue is related to all that. I do not know.
Posted 1/25/2013 4:22 AM (GMT 0)
The first few weeks on a medication are the side effects weeks. These will pass. It may not be a bad idea to get some tests run, just in case. Crack your vitamin D and your thyroid. Hypothyroidism can alter your sleep more.
Posted 1/25/2013 7:15 PM (GMT 0)
Im having trouble with being tierd all the time as well. I just started taking flexerials and it seems now i am sleeping 9, 12, and one day 14 hours. On top of that I have circles under my eyes now. Usualy my dog is pretty good at waking me up in the morning to go out, but she hasn't done that in about a week now. So something must be going on..o_0 Of course this is getting the response it always does with my family. My grandparents think I am lazy or depressed. Which I am neither. Well I might be a little depressed but who wouldn't be during a 4 month flare up. My boyfirned is really worried about the amout of sleep I am getting. And when I sleep I am out cold. Normaly I hear everything I am normaly a reall light sleeper. But this sleep is like I am dead..I dont even move! I wake up in the same posisition I went to sleep in! Uhg!!! Very frusterating.
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