Morning ladies!
Well done on the 4lbs Hayley, that's great! The not going to the loo for a while can make a big difference once you do!
Becca I was in Holland and Barretts yesterday and they've got water retention tablets that are meant to help stop that kind of thing, do you think that's worth a try? I wish I could get 6 litres in, I don't even get my 2! I'm just generally not a thirsty person, never have been.
Chloe really hope that your headache doesn't come back, I know what a nightmare they are!! I keep painkillers everywhere because I get headaches a lot. Bedroom, bag, at work in desk or locker depending where I worked at the time and in my glove box, when I had my car anyway. I've got a bit slack with that though! My sister has this.. I don't know what to call it really! It looks like a chapstick almost, but bigger. You know in the tube thing, you twist the bit at the bottom and stuff, does that make any sense!? Anyway, she has one like that for headaches and you rub it over your forehead, it's amazing! I need to get one, will ask her what it's called, would be more helpful than my rubbish description!
I really want to do the Race for Life, I was thinking of doing it this year as it marks the 10th anniversary of when my Nan died on the 29th of July and there's one on the 27th. But it looks like I'm probably not going to be up for that big a thing that soon. In normal circumstances it would be fine, and I keep thinking about things in normal circumstances. The past few years I've had lots of health problems where doctors have gone through a variety of tests and a couple of diagnosis's including an underactive thyroid, but when they began treatment it made no difference so has just ruled them all out. A bit before Christmas the doctor diagnosed me as having chronic fatigue. As a part of that, exercise is just really difficult. I'll be fine at the time, and then completely wiped out the next day. Energy levels are crap too! Though I've now got sleeping tablets so hopefully that'll fix my sleep problems and improve my energy levels a bit.
The thing is I still very much think of myself as being able to do everything that I could do a few years ago, in the same way I could then. I forget how much harder things are because of such low energy levels and stuff. So it was only when I said to a friend, who also has CFS though worse than me as I'm a relatively mild case really, and he reminded me that half an hour in the gym wipes me out and that I shouldn't be running ahead of myself too much. At the moment the doctor has discussed graded exercise therapy as a way of managing it which means starting with 5-10 minutes of a form of light exercise a day and slowly building up. So I'm going to do that using yoga on the wii fit I think, but I just don't know if I can get up to the levels I'd need to for the walk in time, I'm going to see how I do over the next few months and decide then, if I can't I'm doing it next year, nothing will stop me! It nearly made me cry yesterday, realising that this is something that I can slightly reduce with management but I'm never going to get rid of it, and I'm always going to have to factor it in to stuff. I just want to be able to do whatever I want to do when I want to do it!
Sorry, ramble/rant over!
(I try my best not to overdo it but if i am having a bad day i may down a few more ltrs in hope haha)
