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Posted 6/23/2013 1:13 PM (GMT 0)
What do people do to help their fibro fatigue?

Ive started CoEnzyme 10 and checked this was ok with medication, which it is...I also take magnesium malate, vitamin B Complex, fish oils and D-Ribose powder...Not sure any of it gives me energy, but maybe I need to give it a chance

Just wondering if there is anything out there that I haven't tried.

I am on remeron for sleep and no other pain meds at moment :o)
Posted 6/23/2013 1:46 PM (GMT 0)
Put them to bed at 7.30pm, go to be at 9.30 - 10pm yourself. Tell them not to wake you up till 7.30am the next morning or there won't be any breakfast.
Posted 6/23/2013 1:49 PM (GMT 0)
If you chose to go all natural, you really have to give it time to build up and make a difference. Plus, you have to be super-dedicated to dosages. There is also the chance that it won't be enough to manage the condition.

It's the vicious circle thingie- lack of sleep more pain, more pain harder to sleep.
Posted 6/23/2013 1:49 PM (GMT 0)
already do that clarie...go to bed around 9pm every night, always have bad night sleep, wake up feeling exhausted...today got a lay in until 10am still feel exhausted...thats why I am thinking of supplements to help
Posted 6/23/2013 1:52 PM (GMT 0)
thanks Myself, perhaps I haven't given it enough time yet...I am also on new med Remeron, this is probably making me more tired than normal...

I have also got out of exercise, maybe I have to get back into this as starting to sit around too much and I can feel myself getting worse :o(
Posted 6/23/2013 2:06 PM (GMT 0)
Exercise definitely helps you to sleep better - go slow and be gentle with yourself.

One idea I heard (which you may or may not like) is to do this:
1) use natural approaches and medication at the same time
2) once you have seen sufficient improvement OR once you have reached the stage where addiction to or bodily damage from the medication is becoming a real possibility, slowly taper off the medication (while still using natural approaches, of course)
3) no more medication - hopefully whichever symptom(s) you were treating are now 'fixed up enough' that natural techniques and lifestyle alone are enough to maintain improvement.
This is the route I have decided to try.
Posted 6/23/2013 2:13 PM (GMT 0)
Well sleep aid might be the way to go. I use a combo of a few things. I use stilnox, clonazapham and valdoxan. I am feeling better nowadays with getting up, but my son can't wake me up if I'm not ready to get up... if he does all hell break loose...
Posted 6/23/2013 2:14 PM (GMT 0)
There are so many approaches, as many as there are people. Our pain is not the same, neither are our lives and our needs and our experiences.

I understand the decision to be as natural as possible, though it was not the course I chose. My sister did, for a few years, and still chose to try natural remedies before medical ones. It didn't really seem to help her.

Again, one of the greatest prescription aids for me, and it seems others here, has been the old-fashioned muscle relaxer.
Posted 6/23/2013 2:15 PM (GMT 0)
And, I would also add, that exercise may hurt some in the short run, but helps to maintain energy in the long run.

Move em, or lose em.
Posted 6/23/2013 4:22 PM (GMT 0)
The remeron will make you sleepy during the day until your body gets use to it. It is a fantastic sleep aid if you take it at night. What time of the day do you take it? If it is in the morning, ask the doc if you can take it at night instead.

I wish you the best...

Hugs, Karen...
Posted 6/23/2013 4:43 PM (GMT 0)
When I've had lots of sleep, yet wake up tired, I take another nap about an hour and a half after I get up in the morning--maybe for 30 minutes to 45 minutes or so. I really try not to, but sometimes the fatigue wins! If I tough it out and am still tired in the afternoon and then rest, I'm afraid I'll fall sound asleep and then be awake at night.

If I feel fatigue in the afternoon, I try to sit for a little while with a good book and just relax.  That can sometimes be enough to take the fatigue away, or take the edge off.

I know not everyone here can take a nap, but this is just one suggestion.

Posted 6/23/2013 4:52 PM (GMT 0)
thanks getting by, I take it in the night, around 7pm ish and go to bed about 9:30 on average..i then get up for work around 7 next morning.

Usually i have fatigue, but its a different kind of fatigue, like wired fatigue...but since going on this I feel just really tired..which i prefer!

I will stick with it and hopefully tiredness will wear off...I am getting much more sleep on it than without it

Myself - I will get moving again

Thanks luvzminis..yeah can't nap, never been able to fall asleep in daytime...i will lay down though after work if i can't bear it
Posted 6/23/2013 5:23 PM (GMT 0)
I have a hard time napping too. I don't like the way I feel when I wake up. Maybe I sleep too long, I don't know. I think somebody told me 45 minutes tops.

I hope that the side effects from the remeron go away soon.

Hugs, Karen
Posted 6/24/2013 11:20 PM (GMT 0)
I never have a hard time napping! The meaning of life is an afternoon nap!

It's interesting. When I was younger, I suffered from insomnia. Thoughts would be pinging through my head.

That is so far in the past, I cannot believe it is me!
Posted 6/27/2013 7:11 AM (GMT 0)
Fact sheet about sleep hygiene:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s20/sh/b2019cdc-b57e-44db-8491-136878b0912c/72782fb17772440546445c33a90f9cdf/res/c38be4a9-7fcd-4e9f-a123-e0ef8f270f51/Info-sleep%20hygiene.pdf
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