Posted by deirdrehbrt on March 9, 2004, at 20:59:13
In reply to Re: Energy crisis » Dinah, posted by All Done on March 8, 2004, at 22:22:23
I tried provigil for a short while, along with ritalin. They were prescribed to help me be able to drive. They didn't have their intended effect and I'm not driving.
I have decided that the best natural tranquilizer is therapy.... Go to therapy, come home, asleep within an hour. That holds true unless you do something like take a walk, housework, or any other of the 'gotta keep movin' strategies, in which case you'll do all that stuff, after which any physical activity results in pain, and a strong desire to either sleep or recline.
I guess that it just seems that if you're sick, whatever you do takes a great deal more energy than it did when we weren't sick. we go on mostly through inertia; changing course is exhausting.
I so want off this ride, but I think I need to take it to it's conclusion. If I get off too fast, I'm going to sink. For now, therapy is the bus, I don't know where the end is, but as much energy as it takes, as tired as I feel every day, I need to do it.
Who knows, some day I might be able to drive again!
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