Exercise Question

[lavenderbard]

So, does anyone else get tingling fingers, dizzyness/light-headedness, eyesight going dark, severe balance issues and static in the ears, from doing less than twenty minutes of not notably strenuous exercise?

Not that I always get all of that. Usually it’s just the dizzyness/light-headedness. (And I assume I also look terrible, because my kids keep asking me anxiously if I’m okay.)

But today I’m doing significantly worse than usual.

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Comments

[yhlee]

I've gotten light-headedness, but the eyesight going dark/balance would lead me to at least make a doctor's appointment. Whatever it is, thinking of you and feel better soon.

[lavenderbard]

Those are perfectly normal "you have been pushing this whole exercise thingy too hard" symptoms for me.

I'm not sure if I've mentioned them in particular to a doctor. Probably at least some of them. Hasn't got me anywhere, in the long run. This doesn't surprise me. There is, as of yet, no standardized tests for what I think is wrong with me. But they're making progress on it, and they might come up with one soon. ::crosses fingers::

In the meantime, the only known treatment is "pacing". Or in other words, I'm not supposed to push myself as hard as I did today. (Only, darn it, I wasn't pushing myself harder today than I did yesterday or the day before, I just started off at a lower level. :grump: )

[heleninwales]

I don't think I've ever had that. It doesn't sound good and if it did happen to me, I'd be off to talk to a doctor about it. I hope you can find out what is causing it.

[lavenderbard]

I always assumed it was a side effect of exercising being way harder for me than it's supposed to be, due to my CFS/CFIDS/ME.

The fingers tingling and the static in the ears are pretty rare, but having my vision start to go is what always seems to happen when I get to the lightheaded/dizzy point, and keep on going instead of stopping and resting. The world gets dark at the edges, and the fog closes in until I pretty much can't see anything at all, and at that point I always do stop and put my head between my knees until I'm feeing better, because at that point what choice do I have?