4 day weekend- and I feel crappy :(

Hello Everyone! I can say I sure am glad that I have 4 days, well three more at this point, off of work, I SURE need it! Yet why on my first day off could i barely get myself out of bed and have been trying to drink tons of coffee because i cannot keep my eyes open I am exhausted Is it finally because I'm not doing things like work, errands, cleaning, etc that my body actually realizes how exhausted it is?

Started a new position at work that well was supposedly going to be less stressful but it's way worse. It is medical credentialing, moved over from scheduling position for a large counseling company. Well one girl quit so i got all of her providers after training, umm over 70 of them, yes some of them are individual people some are groups, and each one has anywhere from 3-14 insurance panels etc they are applying to. Well of course she didn't do her work, or the work she did was totally done wrong. So I get to spend all day researching what went wrong, calling companies being yelled at by providers that its been months sing things got done and to make their stuff a priority. i have been working 9-10 hour days, skipping break or short breaks, hardly getting up, drinking water, eating, literally go go go all day emailing, freaking out etc because i just kept getting demands. I worked 5 hours last sat just to get some applications done and i still have like 50 to do, one took like 3 hours yest! and emails are piling up on my days off.

I hate having a to do list, i hate having no end in site with work, so i am being my own worst critic when it comes to getting this done but its nearly impossible.. needless to say i had several crying fits this week and kept being told being upset was wasting my time, so finally off today and I'm dead... no energy, headache after not having one for awhile, i mean really past two weeks i have been go go go that i had not felt bad, why now? :'(

Oh I always do, i stress, i worry, I'm anxious, I'm a perfectionist, I'm my own worst enemy haha.

I have to second strongly what julymorning said. My wife went back to work after 10 years as a stay at home mom in NYC. The stress of a 90 minutes commute each way and being a mom took its toll on her. She kept herself going on massive amounts of caffeine. She finally quit after a year but it was too late the damage was done. She's got adrenal fatigue (almost no cortisol), Lyme, Mycoplasma and re-activated EBV. She's been treating all of it since July (she quit in May) and nothing has gotten better and I mean nothing.

Sounds like you're heading down the same road. It takes a long time to hit bottom and multiples longer to get back up.

There is just nothing i can do about it, nothing. i need to pet sit to make enough to pay just general bills each month. Student loans, car payment, paying a 400 bill a month from an ER visit in May, my cat with cancer costing me hundreds a month, there is nothing i can cut out unless I just don't eat haha. i have four cats so he's not the only one. i am on adder all and I think that tends to be a big factor in when I am at work with this new position just not being able to stop because I am so focused i just cannot stop what i am doing.

If i cut back on any sort of work I will be taking from my small amount of savings that i do have every month and soon will have nothing at all to live off of, and that's a whole new stresser then... I don't know what to do anymore and each time I tell my boss that I cannot stress like i have been she just tells me it will all be fine. I feel like they think i am using it as an excuse.... :/ Also do weird vivid dreams come and go for anyone when they aren't feeling well, past few nights i have had the weirdest dreams ever haha.

Stress can be very harmful to a Lymee's body. And coffee is certainly not a good option.
I cannot advise you to quit the job, because I know you need financial resources in order to treat, and being jobless and without money can be more stressful, but is it possible to change the job? To find some job which is not so intense?

What brand of activated Charcoal do most people get? I know you can get supplements just at places like walmart etc but what brand, how often, what dosage? thANKS

I don't think brand matters. My son in law picked up something from WalMart one day, and at first I didn't think it was going to work, because it was only about $4, and I had been looking at some that were 5 times that much. But the cheap Walmart stuff does work.


Others may have differing experiences.

When you are over stressed emotionally and physically and fighting an infection, your adrenal glands, which have to supply the hormones that keep everything and you running, get to the point your cortisol production can't keep up with the demand.

You don't want that to happen, believe me. Your thyroid is also involved. I often have way more energy in the late afternoon, evening than in the morning. My cortisol output is probably low in the morning.

There is a 4 pt saliva test you can take at home and have analyzed. Having your saliva checked for cortisol 4 times throughout the day gives an accurate accounting of what's going on with you, rather than just one testing.