Another All-Nighter

For several nights these past few weeks, I have had to stay up all night because my tum has been playing up big time. Tonight is another such. Standard medicine does not work because the nausea arises in the brain in ME and not in the stomach. I think I will get some fiery ginger beer and rice cakes to control the extent of the nausea. Possibly some Milk Thistle capsules as well. I hate being constantly nauseous!

I'm seriously nauseous, my upper abdomen is distended, I have oral thrush and so much debility that I have been obliged to restrict my activities and spend more time resting. At night I can't sleep due to the discomfort of the symptoms, and I am sure that the symptoms would subside if I ever managed to get good-quality rest. So far, rest is the only thing that really helps.

I wake up in the mornings feeling fine. But within half an hour to an hour I feel so ill that I have to go back to bed. This is annoying because in the past few years, I have managed my condition and if I 'lived by the rules' I had energy to do various things. That has all come to a halt now. Over the next few weeks, I will cut my activities right back and this time I won't be stupid enough to feel adventurous and do too much, because I am fed up with having these damaging 'boom and bust' cycles.

Calculating 'too much' is difficult because it varies from day to day.