12/11/2025
You may have noticed that I haven't been very active on here lately.
Having put up with Fibromyalgia with Chronic Fatigue for 7 years, and experienced the odd flare up here and there necessitating time off from the day job, usually about a year apart (as I have recently discovered), the past couple of years I have pushed myself to 'keep going', ignore the pain, the loss of energy, the low mood, the ups and downs (more the latter) that go with FM. Just keep taking the tablets and get through the working day. But at what cost?
For over a year I was running on empty - I knew that, but what can you do when you have a chronic condition that won't go away, that even the GP kinda says you just have to manage as best you can. When your supervisor and manager at work are now showing and expressing concern about your health, suggesting you see your GP....Well! Back in September I did just that, armed with a list of all my ailments, compaints, issues I was experiencing - it was 4 full sides of A4 paper. My GP read them, and immediately said I needed to be signed off work for at least 8 to 12 weeks!! That was 9 weeks ago, during which I have slept, rested, and allowed the realisation of just how bad I had got surface. In a nutshell, I had experience a physical and mental burnout as my scrambled brain could just not handle any of it anymore.
A whole arm full of blood tests later, another visit to GP to discuss, and I am Anaemic on top of my Megablastic Anaemia! I am not processing iron, so am now on tablets for that - and when I asked why my iron was (according to GP) "through the floor!", I was told Gut issues.
In my wakeful, unscrambled brain moments, I have done some research on Nutrition and gut health, and so it is most definately time to take this on board. I have denied the possibilites that this was an issue for probably decades, not wanting to have to deal with the possibility of food sensitivites. But now, having used a little kinesiology on myself, whilst reading through my old training manuals in 'alert' moments, I suspect not just food sensitivities, but also potentially parasites, candida/yeast/fungus, heavy metal toxicity and leaky gut!
Though a kinesiologist myself, I am not in a good enough place to embrace "Practitioner! Heal thyself!" So have now found an Applied Kinesiologist about an hour away, who I am going to see next week. I believe that this is the only modality outside of Integrative or Functional Medicine that can deal with chronic conditions - symptoms of which all resemble the same symptoms and markers for the above 'infections/issues'.
Add to the mix that I have now also been referred for Autism/ADHD (explains my whole life and current scrambled brain), and have just had a malignant melanomia removed and to undergo further 'knife work' to remove a larger margin from same area, and it is hardly surprising that my GP has now signed me off until the new year.
This burnout has taken more from me than I anticipated, but has also given me the wake up call (oh the irony with Chronic Fatigue) that was needed for me to turn to other professionals to ask for help. I can only come out of this stronger and wiser. But for now I shall embrace the crutches and the lack of energy and do what I can when I can as I get the help I need to heal. (Fingers crossed, last straw!)
So with that in mind, I am also not taking treatment bookings at present, not until the new year, when hopefully I shall be in a far better place.
Blessings to All. πβ€οΈβπ©Ή