Exercise Intolerance When Does It Stop?

[[fi...]]

I am almost 2 years off low dose Ativan use.  The last month I was almost healed felt the best I had in years dare I say normal.  Energy was up I wanted to participate in and enjoyed activities.  Was resilient. Could eat and drink normally.  Sleeping soundly.

 

Friday I went for a power walk after not having the time to exercise for a week.  And i am now a mess tingling, vibrating, sore aching legs, not sleeping feel like I am on adrenaline agitated. Chest tightness.  Basically all my symptoms are back in spades am so mad and frustrated. 

 

Ugh is exercise intolerance to this degree normal this far out?

[[do...]]

It took me 16 months to be able to return to just cardio and stretching, so I don't think 2 years is unheard of.

 

Also, when I did start back, I became more symptomatic and it's harder to sleep now. But the lift in mood is undeniable and is worth the extra "reved up" feeling at times.

 

Hang in there. Either push through or take more time to recover. 

[[fi...]]

Thanks!  I only walk as any other type of excercise sends me through the roof.  I have been able to walk daily and successfully for the last 6 months but hadn't had the time in the last week and jumped back in to my walking routine by doing an hour walk with hills on Friday which sent me into this most intense wave I have had in over a year.  It is so frustrating! As I agree with you the benefits of excercise are too important to give up on.  I feel awful all symptoms are flaring but will keep walking and pushing through this wave thanks for the encouragement.

 

any other tips?

[[do...]]

Ummmm, let's see...

 

I'm EXTRA nice to myself  I know the symptoms are going to come, so I just treat myself with more compassion. I REALLY want to exercise, and I wasn't able to for almost three years now, so at 16 months I was just well enough where a little extra increase in symptoms wouldn't break me.

 

Other than that, I rest a lot and eat very clean. Oh, and if I feel frustrated because I'm not falling alseep, I take a time-released melatonin.

 

 

[[fi...]]

thank you:)

 

I started taking pure encapsulations magnesium glycinate 120 mg capsules at night to relax.  I take two together when my body is tensed up and can't sleep and 3 when it is really bad. I find it really really helps.

 

I had been feeling so good that I had eased up on my clean diet good reminder think I need to go back to that now.

 

Okay going out for a walk!

[[si...]]

I am 17 months off. Worked out my whole life.

I have not been able to workout for three years. It was a big part of my life and always made me feel good. Not anymore. Just another thing that has been taken from me because of this mess.

[[Be...]]

I've been weightlifting daily for more than 16 yrs and in my opinion the time you spent away from exercise will be the same interval it takes you to get back to where you were before you took time off

 

2 weeks off = 2 weeks getting back to where you were

[[Kl...]]

This is nuts

[[br...]]

I'm 33 months benzo free from ativan and the sickess and suffering only continues to worsen.  I can barely get around....let alone exercise.  This demon drug destroyed me.  Before I was pumped full ativan poison, I was active and worked out at the gym 6 days a week and ran 2 miles twice a week....now, just walking to the bathroom is  a monumental task that leaves me breathless, severely weak and exhausted with fatigue so bad it puts my whole body in pain and literally feels like I'm dying...not to mention a ton of other severe x/s...the feeling of something toxic runnung through me, the feeling that my muscles are dying or attacking themselves, stabbing pain in spine from neck to tailbone, back of head always feels like I was kicked in the head and feels like a brain infection and all kinds of other horrible head sensations, and on and on and on.  God bless you if you can do any type of exercise b/c I sure can't.

 

Blessings,

Brunette 

 

 

[[Ja...]]

tingling, vibrating, sore aching legs, not sleeping feel like I am on adrenaline agitated. Chest tightness.

 

Yes, so much yes to all this.  I just started a job where I have to walk around 10 miles a day for a lawn care company and I get this exact way the day after or later on that night.  Legs ache, restless, adrenaline feeling, insomnia or only sleeping a few hours, hands and feet get cold and numb, tingly, and inner vibration especially in my head. 

 

Some days I feel great and then some days I feel like this ^^^^  It's a gamble.  But overall I feel I am improving a lot now even though I become symptomatic, and it throws me in a wave. I feel the next window feels better and longer.

[[li...]]

29 months off and no end in sight with the exercise intolerance...