Re: please help me with severe tense post malaise exertion after activity

Sleep and rest is healing. For Chronic-Fatigue-Syndrome and Fibromyalgia patients, activity often makes it worse. I have a theory on this. I think we push ourselves because we are the types that are survivors and have always worked while sick, etc. I think that attitude will both save us and condemn us. One, we do too much, and don't give our body what it mostly needs, which is rest. We feel guilty to spend a whole week in bed, when in reality, that is what our body needs at the moment.

The most important thing is to have high density nutrition and adequate elimination.
Rest as much as possible until you are more sick of being in the bed than out of bed. Learn pacing.

Pacing is work, rest, work, rest, work, rest. At first while in the bed, it may be ten repetitions of physical exercise, or even two. A couple of leg lifts. No more. Then fifteen minutes of rest. Keep a journal and every day increase it in very teeny amounts. If you are able to walk, walk one block (not around the block) and back. If you cannot manage that, walk ten steps and back. Do what you can but in very very tiny amounts to start. When you overdo, you set yourself back, and worse, you put a guilt trip on yourself, and the mind says, "What is wrong with me? Why can't I function?" And when you concentrate on what is wrong with you, you get worse.

Imagine yourself as a very loved child who has had an illness and is recovering. You want her to get better, but you know if she overdoes, she will have setbacks. In the meantime, you have to address this child's self esteem. Tell her how loved she is, and how valuable, and how much you approve of her. Tell her she is not her body, but that, slowly, you are positive her body will get better. Read Louise Hay to her. Fill her mind with positive loving thoughts so that the chatter that she now hears will cease. Settle it once and for all that other people will have to take care of themselves and you will have to take care of this beloved child.

Do not spend a lot of time in one position. I used to wake up feeling my left shoulder was broken. I had to make myself move it, and not just in the morning but during the day as well. If any position gives you stress on that part, immediately get out of that position. Changing position is essential and you do not have to do a lot of activity, just change positions often. I find I lean on one elbow when I use my laptop - NO NO NO! I found that the air ducts in my car blew cold air on my arms I had to be a detective.

Iodine also helped me immensely. You can read my posts by clicking on my user name.