Re: To Rise... sleeping, exhaustion and feeling worthless

April 18, 2008

Oh my gosh Debra! You know, some times reading what other people have

experienced is like turning on a light bulb in my brain. When you

mentioned that you had always required a good 10-11 hours sleep when

younger, I felt this " AH HA! " moment that yes, this condition has been

with me for a long time. A lot of you have been saying how long you

have had fibro and I'm always sitting here wondering how long I have

had it. At times like this when someone says something and I realize

" oh yea, I had that too " and I realize just how long I have had this

condition! Prior to this, I remember 20+ years ago when I was a

non-traditional college student, I took a softball class. I was

forever pulling tendons and walked around campus like an old lady!

The teacher/coach would tell me to stretch out before running, but I

always DID...it just didn't prevent me from hurting the already tight

tendons in my legs. Shortly after that I realized I could no longer

bring my right leg up to sit cross-legged. So I sort of had traced my

fibro back to that time. Now, when you mention the sleep thing, it

was more like 35+/- years ago...when I started needing more sleep. I

thought it was just a teen thing...oh well...

Anyway, I just wanted to share that. There is so much I learn about

myself from what everyone here shares. I have tried to post lately,

but I guess I need to go to the website in order to have it go out.

Wonder where my other posts went? Whatever, thanks everyone!

Vicki

MN

wrote:

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> Rise, I just read your post on sleeping. I am going to share with

you all I know and have experienced with this illness in reagards to

sleep.

> For as long as I can remember, I always required more sleep than the

average person. When I was young and had no idea that fibro was

lurking, I required a good 10-11 hours of sleep a night. But at least

back then, it did some good. Now it does no good at all.

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