no motivation anymore

Hello everyone..... I have been working a ton alot of 2-9:30 or 12:30 - 9:30 or 10-7 and about 35hrs a week...i work at home depot so i am on my feet all day long on concrete floors. I need the money so i cant ask to cut back my hrs but i am part time still.  I guess what I am wondering is that my tiredness wont go away. I sleep all morrning till about 2-3 hrs b4 i have to go to work at 2 ..so that i am not tired all day at work, but i get 11-12 hrs asleep a night and neer wake up refreshed even when i try to get up early a few hrs later i have to take a nap. Is this my lyme or the combination of working alot with my lyme and having depression. this is really bringing me down..I do take celexa for my depression and this was b4 my lyme.

 a few weeks ago i had alot more energy and was going to the gym on my days off but now i dont even do that. I started to do light cardio on the machines and would jog on the treadmill for 1/2hr and it felt great. but now that i am working so much and so very achey from being on my feet and lifting I cant decifer if it is just work or my lyme?

I am also going through sum stuff at home and also i am not at the job that i want to be at. i graduate college last may and stilll cant find a job which is annoying but sometime i just want to give up on that and except the fact that i am never leaving home depot. also my managers and boss have been hard on me about how i cant be full time cause i am not reliable cause i had taken out alot of days when i first got sick...but yet i work 35 hrs a week and they been watching me at work...its just been alot of stress there and i am afraid of lossing my job so i am working my butt off to prove that i am a hard worker....

with all of this going on and having lyme its making me go crazy and want to give up most days and i just feel numb.....i have to go and start to get ready for work...

please any advise would be appreciated...thank you! :0)

I have found that all my meds keep me down (mentally and physically). What I have tried to do is wake up in the am and get a little exercise in then - before I take my meds. On most days, once I take my drugs... I feel the way you have described. Stress always leaves me exhausted so I try my best to control that. Have you tried yoga, breathing techniques or meditation? These things may help you to decrease your stress which should give you more energy. Remember nothing is permenant. You're lucky right now to have any income, try to be thankful for that. I was not able to work at all for a long time because of how sick I got, but I made it through and so will you. Try to relax and have faith.

jennie48 said...
IH8ticks- i do have broken sleep even when i take my sedative at night i wake up 4 hrs after sometimes 2 hrs after..... then allmorning i am off and on sleeping.....

You're having the same problems as I am. Sedatives are useless on me, and I've tried them all. Have you also noticed that you are woken up more easily? That one is harder to tell. I used to be able to sleep through anything. Now, the least little thing wakes me up. My sleep improved after being on abx for a while, but when I had a relapse, my sleep got worse again. After being off of abx for a weeks over the holidays, my sleep is even worse.

I can't believe you can be on your feet all day. I have a desk job, and I still get worn out! LOL!

I don't have an answer yet for the sleep problems. This bug seems to get into the sleep control center of our brains and throws everything out of whack. Meanwhile, I'm just trying to get back on the abx to get rid of this thing.

HI IH8ticks- I do notice that i get woken up very easily maybe thats why I have broken sleep. The sedative only help me relax and then i can pass out but then after 5hr i am up and cant go back to sleep...then i mite take another 1/2 just so i can go back to bed. I even have tried tylenol pm but that makes me feel really distorted when i wake up in the middle of the night. It is very hard to be on my feet all day, my legs hurt and my knees hurt and i get drained and I get brain fried cause I work in a specialty department and sell flooring and blinds all day and its so tireing....I dont know how i have managed to be on my feet all day i guess i just learned to push myself and not think about my pain in my body....

just today I went to go buy that digital converta box i had the coupon for 40 dollars in my pocket and went to radio shack then went to walmart to get it there and sarted to talk to this old guy about antenas and then i left casue they didnt have any and some how i managed to loss the coupon i drew a blank from when i asked the associated to i got to my car and dont know what happen to it...i was so mad at myself for being brain fried ...

Ticker i am on doxy100mg // omnicef 300mg // celexa 20mg and a sedative....and a multi b complex vitamin. I have been on the abx since october 08...but also tend to forget my dose once in a while cause i need to eat on them and when i get home from work i just dont want to eat and then dont take them. i dont have any co infections and i do see a Lyme doctor. i have my next appointment in april... he says that i dont have a bad case cause i havnt had lyme for a long time but soemtime feel that i should get a second opion...the ri hospital has a lyme clinic and i mite go there...i just dont have the time or money to spend on dr. bills cause my health insurance doesnt cover much. I have never got my hormone or thyroid tested....should i have my lyme dr do that or my gyno cause i go see them in a week and maybe i can ask for some blood work if they would for me.

I am just tired of being tired all the time and feel achy...my kneck pops and cracks still i have to force it to crack to feel better and today i was so brain fog it was horrible....

thank you all for your replys....jennie

Hi jennie.  I am sorry you misplaced your coupon.  I wonder if you could get another one if you explain what happened?

It does not sound like your dosages are in the range for Lyme treatment.  I think getting another opinion is a good idea.  It cannot hurt.

I think it is important to learn as much as you can so you can get the best treatment.  Have you read Dr. Joseph Burrascano's 2005 Diagnostic Hints and Treatment Guidelines For Lyme and Other Tick Borne Illnesses at http://www.ilads.org/burrascano_0905.html ?  He is one of the top Lyme doctors in the country, and many Lyme doctors follow his protocols.  I also recommend reading the books "Everything You Need To Know about Lyme Disease Second Edition" by Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner and "The Lyme Disease Solution" by Kenneth B. Singleton MD.

Your gyno can test your thyroid function.  It is simple blood testing.  Ask to have the Free T3, Free T4 (besides the T3 and T4), and thyroid antibodies tested in addition to the normal panel.  They are not usually done but are necessary for a comprehensive view.

I believe all households are entitled to 2 coupons. If you can't get another one I have an extra. Email me with your address if you want it. Try to wear shoes that have really foamy soft thick soles that might help with the concrete floors. Kava Kava and valerian are herbs that help with sleep. I feel for you.Hope you feel better soon sweetie. Blessings

hello everyone.....I found my coupon and minerals thank you for your genuous offer......I found it in my purse were i looked a million times.... i think i am lossing my head lol. i dont understand how i missed it in the front pocket. but i am just gld that i found it....

IH8ticks....i am taking 300mg Omnicef twice a day so 600mg day and and The 100mg Doxy trice a day, my dr said that he didnt feel like i needed a hight dose of doxy cause i didnt have a horrible case of lyme .... i was on Zithromax and Plaquenil for one month when i first got lyme and i had a bad herx on that....the omnicef helps alot when i am not on it and only take the doxy i feel worse...

i woke up today exacty 6hrs and it was 8:30 and od course i went back to bed and woke up around eleven.... i hve the day off tomorrow so i am going to try to get up early and see how it goes....

marth... I get my celxa through my regular dr. and i need a refil prescription soon so i will talk to him about maybe raising my dose...i have heard of cymbalta and i will mention it to him .... I didnt know it could give you energy...

ticker....thaks for the web link i will look at it in a bit also tha nks for what tests to request...i go to the gyno next monday so i will get it done while i am there..... I am going to see if i can get thoses books through amazon...what they have in barnes and nobles is slip pickings. they had 2 books which was not anything that i didnt know already so it wasnt worth the money to buy....

i guess sometimes i go through my fases that i dont want to think about the lyme and just be normal but i cant always ignore it....i do want a second opion...i just feel like my dr. doesnt spend enough time with me and he feels that i am not in bad shape...i am sure i am not but everyone feels different and this and this is not how i felt b4 lyme so to me this is a horrible feeling no matter how bad my lyme is... i still want answeres and when i am going to be better....

thank you again everyone :0)..... i am off to bed....

nefferdun...i agree that i am not on the right dsage of doxy....i know that alot of people on here are on a higher dose and even this women i know that gores to the same dr is on a hight dose. i think he thinks that i am not a bad case.but i and constant tired since late august and i am getting annoyed with this sympom and need to go on with my every day life and not be so unmotivated. i just graduated from colledge almost a year ago and i have no motivation to look harder that what i am for a new job... I have never been tested for co-infections and want to...i really want to go to the ri hospital ckinic but need to see if my insureance is covered and its only open twice a week....

I have had an headache for about 2-3 weeks strait and the florescent lights at work make my eyes hurt ...i dont have much of an apetite lattly and my kneck pops and cracks still and my knees are much better but i cant lean on them with out them hurting...my job is very physicle s my whole body aches but i try t ignore it.

I am glad that you are feeling better and hope your progress con't........