Why do I feel so tired after physio? - Fibromyalgia Acti...
Why do I feel so tired after physio?
When you have a physio session it is both mentally and physically draining, Partly because you do not know what they expect from you so you are anxious fearing that you wont be able to do it. The other side is that sometimes c gentle exertion can be so tiring for us. We have to take into account that we suffer from exhaustion so easily. All of this is Fibro but on the plus you went well done you achieved something. that was a very positive thing to do. 
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Hi
I find sometimes they don't understand how tired we get after even gentle exercise. I go to hydrotherapy twice a week and although its very good for relaxation it wacks me out the whole of the next day!!!
Yes that is so true, I am thinking of going swimming with my daughter, just gentle movements. xx Jan
yes its the ever present circle of things! I would love to find a hydro therapy pool again as the one I used years ago has closed and a private warm pool has no hand rails and I cannot manage the steps. Local pool is only 29deg and we Fibros need at least 32 deg so I have been told. Yes it will wear us out but for me I feel it is worth it if we can keep our joints and muscles working - I ha ve nursed too many folk who have just sat down and not done any physical movement to speak of. Don't get me wrong I understand sometimes no matter how hard we try it just won't do! Even moving your fingers and making an O with them is using some ! Smiling uses 44 muscles -if no one about smile at tv and keep smiling makes us feel better too! I try to do my odd jobs keeping the "stttretch and reach" going sometimes barely a movement but better than nothing. Other days I am quite good - if I walk in the garden I try to hold on and pull up a weed etc and use the proper back and leg muscles! Good job no=one sees me! I'm too big to be a ballet dancer!!! Gentle hugx
I know exactly how you feel Janlou. Today I drove to my daughter's house, I sat in a comfortable chair in the back garden for a while, she has a blow up pool that was warm and so I got in up to my neck with a blow up ring for support and just floated around, it was heaven. No physical exercise at all. She cooked dinner and I drove home. 2 hours later and I feel like I've run a marathon, my head is throbbing, I ache all over and feel like I have flu, shivering but burning with cold hands, feet and nose, I'm taking myself off to bed now....So tomorrow I sit at home all day and do nothing, this illness is ridiculous, I can't do anything anymore...so fed up being like this, so you have my sympathy. Soo
Aw this illness robs us of our life, it drives me mad because I cant do what I use to do. Does your family understand how you are? Sometimes mine do,but not all the time. Even just popping to the supermarket knocks me out!!! Sending hugs xx Janlou
Like you Janlou mine do sometimes but most of the time no. I was using a stick to walk a while back and my daughter said for God sake mum you're like a flippin cripple....remarks like that hurt. One of my daughter's understands but I don't think anyone, unless you suffer yourself, understands just how debilitating it is. Just because you can do something one day, does not mean you can do it every day. I was put on steroids for a ten day trial and they did help, so because I was able to do more than usual, I'm considered recovered. Even though after the ten days I've had to stop them and am back to being useless. I don't see the consultant until late Sept so can't go back on them until then. I have to have a temporal artery biopsy soon to see if I have temporal arteritis, plus MRI, Scans and bloods, it never ends.
Hi pepperoso, I know the feeling when someone's passes a comment like your daughters, my daughter was the opposite she said "mum whatever helps you get around with ease you do so "but I did get a comment years ago from a friend when I was using a stick, but have had to use crutches now for the past few years and haven't had the snide looks or comments, let your daughter read a few of these comments she may realise its the norm for s fibro's, and as u say because u can do something easier one day doesn't mean you can doing the next, like most illnesses you take one day a a time, I get good days bad days and VERY bad days, it's a very dibilitating condition, can u go back to your GP for tablets he can prescribe them for you especially if a specialist has already prescribed them or he may give you something different that would help you, I would go back to GP and ask for something to tied you over till you see the specialist .....gentle hugs to you ..Dee x
I can't go back on the steroids until after the temporal artery biopsy but once that is done I will ask yes. They called me to go and have it done on the same day my son was graduating, and obviously I said I couldn't go that day. They got really struppy with me when I told them I had to be off the steroids for two weeks before it could be done. They said they would call back to rearrange but I've not heard a thing, I'm going to call my consultant's sec tomorrow and see if she can get things moving. Thanks for your kind reply Dee, it's nice knowing some people do understand. Soo x
i go to physio 1 aweek. and it wacks me for a couple of days, i get so tired. my partner does not help he just sits doing crosswords, and complaining i have not dome dinner .or why it takes me so long to do a job in the house, even going shopping some times is too much, but we have to keep going for own sense of being. i try to keep doing things yes they take me longer but i get there eventually.
To all of you who have replied, big hugs to all...This illness is real and we have to cope with the way it makes us feel... I went for a walk this afternoon with my hubby, when I got in I was worn out. We have to do our physio and try and stay positive, however sometimes its not easy...
jan x
hi everyone I feel so miserable what can I do
I'm so vexed at the physio 
Feeling sick and tired of all this worry and feeling so poorly?
