Imagine waking up one day and feeling sick. It feels like you ran a marathon the day before, but it also feels like you drank 10 beers and got 2 hours of sleep. Except all you did the day before was exist, and you slept for a long time. It hurts to look at anything slightly bright. Normal sounds suddenly are far too loud. You feel like you're about to throw up. When you sit up all the blood rushes from your head, your heart starts pounding, every breath feels unsatisfying. The longer you're upright the more your head starts hurting. Your mouth is dry, everything itches, you feel congested. Standing up is hard because every joint and muscle in your body aches. Even the muscles behind your eyes. You are always too hot or too cold. Your glands are swollen and sore. The idea of food is enough to make you want to puke, but you know you have to eat anyway or you'll feel worse. You won't be able to go out or do anything today. You'll have to shower sitting down. You need to vacuum but you know that's impossible. You can't cook anything because you can't stand up for more than 3 minutes. So you just grab the crackers and go lie down on the couch for hours. You MIGHT get something done today, but if you do you'll pay for it later. You feel too tired to even get up and find the TV remote so you just go back to sleep. You get constant UTIs. Digesting food is somehow painful. There are times when no position is comfortable, and absolutely everything hurts. If you bump into the table even a little bit, it feels like someone smacked you with a baseball bat. Your brain never works, you always feel foggy. You forget so many things, even entire conversions. You'll be taking to someone and suddenly completely forget simple words. Even if you go to bed utterly exhausted, you might not be able to sleep for hours. And then you feel the same the next day. And the day after that. This could go on for 3 years, or 30 years, no doctor can really help you. You feel so helpless and alone and just exhausted of being exhausted. This is what people can experience with Cronic fatigue syndrome/ME, fibromyalgia, POTS, or other chronic illnesses. You'd be surprised at how many people out there are a afflicted by this illness, and how many people have no idea that this even exists. If one more person can understand what we go through on a daily basis, maybe we can feel a little less isolated.
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