Fatigue worse when standing?

[lydelia]

Anyone notice that with their fatigue, if that is a symptom you have, that it is worse when you stand. I tend to be relatively ok feeling when I sit, but when I stand, my whole body feels like lead. It's terrible ... and I have a job where I am on my feet a lot.

Also, just because I want to complain, my symptoms have come and gone for awhile, and now the head tingles are sticking around. They are not bad but they are there, and they have lasted the last two days. *****.

I think after my neurologist appointment, and thinking about surgery and when to have it, I am just a little depressed about the whole thing.

Anyway ... the fatigue question is what I was after. I wonder if it has anything to do with the difference in downward pressure from your spine when you go from sitting to standing that makes it worse.

Thanks guys and gals.

Virginia

[selmaS]

  I have this issue as well...I can go a few days where I sleep well, just that I do not feel rested, and then I have a few days where I just can not fall asleep...and I lie awake for hours.....

I had a sleep test done to check for pre cursors for apnea it is done in the home and is less expensive then the traditional sleep study....if a full sleep study is warranted again this is done in home and is a 3 day as opposed to 1 night.

Unfortunately or fortunately I had enuff oxygen in my blood stream and did not show signs of sleep apnea...so, what now I wonder.,...

I was on Vit D as well and found it can make u very tired....so I have labs due soon and then a visit to my PCP to try to figure this out.

I am with u on that and when I am tired I can get crabby, and I am always tired.,...need I say more : P


Hang in there I am sure we will figure this out

      "selma"

[lydelia]

Thanks for the reply. I was thinking that sounded like a retarded question, but now I realize that I was not off base.

I am so tired of being tired. Vitamin D helped for awhile, but now I think I am passed the vitamin D deficiency thing and into Chiari things. Right now I am playing with the idea of getting a sleep study done. I don't sleep for long stretches at a time, 3-4 hours max. When I crash I crash, but I still never feel rested. I have looked at hours of research online (which is what I do when things bug me) and a lot of it suggests that chiarians can develop sleep apnea due to chiari or other sleep related issues because of everything being smushed together back there.

I think I just wanted to whine really. I don't like to feel bad, but fatigue makes it about a million times worse.

[selmaS]

  Hi...deff have worse fatigue standing as well...still do post op...as I do too much sitting...

I try to change it , but no matter how long it is I get fatigued quickly.....it could be the natural effects of gravity and the tonsils having more of a downward pull and more CSF obstruction, but it could be something more to it as I was decompressed already and still feel it.

   "selma"