Fatigue

[Tokis86]

Amongst other symptoms, i suffer from fatigue. I've heard that this can be one of the many symptoms of Dysphraxia, does anyone else suffer from fatigue?

Sometimes my fatigue can be very strong, with me falling asleep for hours after only 4 hours work. I also get very bad post eating tiredness when i eat and due to sleeping problems i rarely feel well slept in general no matter how much rest i get (even when exhausted i find it very difficult getting to sleep at night and, which i always find frustrating as i always seem to have loads of energy at night when i least need the energy but i also get randomly fatigued when i most need to do things. My sleep is quite often of poor quality (although my dreams are fantastic )).

And this is proper fatigue, real exhaustion i'm talking about, not just feeling a bit tired here & there. It can come on very suddenly sometimes, with one hour i'm feeling fine and then the next i'm feeling so tired i can't even keep my eye's open and want to sleep more than anything else.

[minniemoo]

I must admit that I don't get the kind of fatigue and sudden tiredness that you are talking about. However, I do have very broken sleep and wake up at the drop of a hat...It must be so hard for you to function with your fatigue.

However, what really fascinated me about your post was what you said about your dreams being fantastic. It never occurred to me before that my dreams might be related to dyspraxia - stupid really considering it affects almost everything else! But I have the most wonderfully vivid dreams. Often with a soundtrack! No non-dyspraxic I've met has soundtracks to dreams, I was wondering if you or any other dysps have this? Also I get to have the same dream over sometimes. So I might be saving the world by having to go through a series of adventures (yep my dreams are often like bad quality comp games or b movies!!!) and I might not succeed to completing everything before the alarm goes off, but then the next night, or even a night a week after or several months after I can have that same dream again and progress through the tasks quicker, getting on to the bits I've not done/dreamt before. It sounds mad, but it is great. The other thing I've noticed about my dreams is that I can directly influence the storyline if I'm not enjoying it. I can consciously think 'I wish that something else/that would happen' and the dream story direction actually changes...

Noone else I've met has had these types of dreams and now thanks to you I am wondering if it is another sign of our dyspraxia

Have a good wkd

[Tokis86]

It can be pretty hard doing day-to-day living with the fatigue but thankfully i don't suffer from it all the time (i have good weeks & bad weeks), but when its bad i can get very stressed as i worry about being able to keep up with all my responsibilities/commitments. Sometimes i can get through it with lot's of caffeine but i try to avoid this if i can as this can mess up my sleeping patterns and create a vicious cycle etc.

Concerning the dream thing, my dreams are like epic movies ! Very detailed, with their own story lines & worlds/alternative realities and everything. Sometimes i'm myself but i can land in a dream at almost any age (sometimes i'm a kid, sometimes i'm older than i really am etc) but sometimes i'm sometimes else entirely (i can even be a different gender- for example i remember this one dream where i was this black boy about aged 12 working on a pirate ship in the 1700s, lol).

But they're always very detailed and i love it when i remember them. I have had the recurring dream thing before; in the past i used to have a recurring nightmare of being on a beach when a Tsunami strikes- the dream would be a little different every time, but certain things always happened regardless (for example i would always be on a beach by the water line when i suddenly notice the tide quickly pulling out and a dark wave slowly building up in the horizon. I would always try to scramble back up the beach to get away, but i there would always be a cliff in the way. I would always scramble up this cliff and barely miss the Tsunami every time).
The tsunami dreams carried on for years until in one dream i save a little girl (and then after that dream, i never had a tsunami dream ever again).

The tsunami dreams bugged me so much for so many years that i tried to look up stuff to interpret them, but the only main things i found out about tsunami dreams is that the ocean represents the subconscious and a stormy sea or tsunami can represent fears & stresses in your subconscious that you fear overwhelming you.

Either way though, those dreams have stopped (although whether saving the little girl or sorting my life out more had anything to do with it, i don't know).


I have been having 2 recurring dream theme's recently though;
1. I am back at my mums farm. I'm always my adult self in these dreams (and although the farm doesn't usually set the stage of the whole dream, i always end back at it) but there's always some weirdness in these dreams (alternative reality rather than re-visting childhood memories). I still struggle with my past & my mother and so i wonder if this is affecting my dreams.
2. A valley. The hills are steep and the soil is rich & fertile. It is ancient landscape and sometimes stone tools litter the surface. It seems to be some sort of portal in the dream (when i go through it i go from one part of the dream to the other- usually a stressful part to a happier part, but sometimes just the beginning & the end), i have no idea what it symbolizes but it feels very important to me in the dream.

[joy]

You can get periods of fatigue ,were you feel exhausted and tired all of a sudden it is called reactive hypoglycaemia.Not to be confused with diabetics and hypoglycaemia as that can lead to coma.Because we have to put more of a effort into working muscles and takes more effort to try and co-ordinate simple everyday tasks blood sugar levels can take a sudden dip.My sons psychologist told me to put a banana in his school bag when he was younger and when he suddenly felt exhausted to eat the banana,that will usually perk him up.It doesn't have to be a banana it can be anything just to raise your sugar levels .I also get these sudden bursts of weakness and tiredness were I feel I couldn't walk another step ,if you take time out to have a cuppa and something to eat you will feel better. My son went to the gym today came home feeling tired and weak and exhausted when he had something to eat he felt much better.

[Bert]

I agree with the fatigue. I dont get it all the time, but when i do, it feels ive been zapped of all my energy. Some times it is during a busy day at work or after a succession of late nights or some time it just comes on for no obvious reason. If its at work, it can sometimes set me off on a downward spiral, with lose of concentration and getting annoyed and snappy easily.

I agree with dreams. I m not great with getting off to sleep, can take up to a hour sometimes and i stir during the night quite regulary. But when i remember my dreams, they are very vivid, sometime too real. One had me falling i
Off my bed and frozen to the spot and i couldnt call out to my housemates chatting outside my room. It felt very real and i was realived when i woke up in my bed. The dreams also seem very irratic, random details changing at any moment like the location or the people im with so in the end a lot of.makes no logical sense. just plenty of fast changing chunks.

I ll have to try eating a bannana at work to combat fatigue. I eat them regulary linked in with my running. I find jelly babies very useful for energy boosts when i am out runninv.

[Catwoman42]

I also get waves of fatigue, in fact I'm tired now as I have just had a pizza...I do have odd, vivid dreams, but I have recently started a guided meditation class and my meditations are wild! My teacher is amazed..

[Peculiar]

I do get fatigued, but not sleepy. I actually have insomnia. My fatigue is more physical exhaustion from doing menial chores. I dread cleaning the bathroom or organizing my room, because it's just too overwhelming and tiring. Hence always living in a cluttered environment. I try to exercise, but I find it hard to even leave the house sometimes. Sometimes, 20 minutes on the treadmill will be overly exhausting for me. I'm really weak. But when I do exercise, afterwards, it does make me feel good about myself and energized and ready to take on the world.

[janetp]

I worry sometime about getting so tired, I manage to live an energetic life but I get so tired, I sometimes feel like I am too exhausted to breath I have always been this way and am only now realising that I do pretty well to work hard and exercise ( love walking) considering this factor I thought recently that its always been this way and no doubt always will ( I have embarked on a health regime and have been lamenting the struggle I am having, thinking any day now it will get really easy) darn thats all I can say,I am keeping on with it all though.

[always_elan]

My guess is that even if there is no medical link between dyspraxia and fatigue, someone with Dyspraxia will become tired and even exhausted sooner than someone who doesn't have the condition, simply because it's so exhausting trying to do the normal stuff everyone does without hurting yourself, losing things, bashing someone else and (although I know it shouldn't matter) embarrassing yourself. Add in the bashes, falls, stress when you do lose things then we are either trying to avoid these things (no pun intended, honest!) or experiencing them. No wonder some of us wonder where our energy is!

Brief point - I have been diagnosed with M.E. and believe this is correct in my case, for various reasons, including having a viral infection and an accident, then over time developing unmanageable fatigue and constant pain. The tiredness from managing Dyspraxia is to me a separate thing.

[LuluBoo]

I'm sometimes incredibly exhausted
particularly wednesday where i had to do the shop for my mum (she was really ill)
i couldn't find a basket so i had to carry everything then once i got to the till i forgot something on the list i kept dropping everything by the end of it i was so flustered i was almost in tears
by the time i got home i was so tired i slept for 5 hours

[Valkyrie]

I've been diagnosed as having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I'd say that's wrong. I do wonder if these Specific Learning Difficulties are as a result of a malfunctioning gut. Do you have gut problems? (Google gut health/flora and physical and mental health. Try the Microbiome Project.) I have worsening IBS and when I get an attack my dyspraxia is off the scale and my fatigue too. I can't exercise as I fatigue so easily. Also being dyspraxic is hard work. We have to work so much harder to co-ordinate and concentrate than other people which wears us down over time. I have hypersensitive senses so that wears me out. I have to wear tight clothes at night as loose clothing and sheets tickle horribly. Even then that's not always enough. That can prevent me from getting to sleep. I have to wear foam ear plugs at night as noise keeps me awake or wakes me. I cut the plugs in half width-ways as they fit in my ears neatly. A psychologist I spoke to said dyspraxics' nervous systems are often on flight or fight response, hence the heightened senses, so being on a hair trigger all the time is also exhausting. I'm very easily hurt by people and have no barriers, so emotional exhaustion to boot. I can get so exhausted that, like you, I could put my head down at work and go to sleep. I have often found a quiet place, like a little-used disable toilet at work and gone to sleep on the floor for a few minutes! After eating carbs I can be mentally and physically devastated by fatigue, but not always. Avoid too many carbs and avoid simple carbs completely.

Alexxx

[Khrishan]

Yes!
I was recently diagnosed with Dyspraxia and when I realized that could be the explanation behind my constant tiredness I cried tears of joy. I'm only 19, but I've been insanely tired for as long as I can remember and no blood test or any medical help has ever helped.

When I was at school I would be essentially useless in morning lessons. I struggle to socialise in the evenings because I'm always tired. I struggle to work now without coffee. It felt like the bane of my existence, which sounds quite dramatic but it just is like that.

There was nothing I wouldn't give to have normal energy levels, and now I finally have an explanation.

Dyspraxia also affects me in many other ways, I struggle to tie my laces, to cook or ever be on time for anything and even with depression, but the fatigue overshadows all of those unequivocally.