After a week of feeling crappy, my ME/CFS wasn’t too bad today. However, I decided to take a nap just to recharge my batteries. When I awoke my dizziness and brain fog was much, much worse. It’s almost like my brain didn’t completely wake up and I’m permanentliy groggy. This ever happen to others of you with #mecfs?
@btschumy@mecfs Unrefreshing sleep is a common symptom anyway but today maybe the crash was still coming on when you went down for a nap?
There’s always a lag for me between aggravating event (standing too long, sitting up too long, too much exertion or elevated heart rate ) and onset of PEM crash, usually a day-ish. But so often it catches me up short and I’m like wtf did I do?
The hardest thing about #MECFS is gauging how I’m doing. Either I’m in pain and fog, or not. Argh!
@LLS@mecfs It could be I was due for a crash. I’ve been yo-yoing for the past week. But I didn’t do much yesterday and I felt good before the nap. Sure seems like the nap caused it. It makes me wonder if some of the “unrefreshing sleep” and brain fog are just the brain not coming out of sleep correctly. That would be an autonomic nervous system thing.
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