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my symptoms and the ones that I struggle w/ the most are the muscle fatigue, feeling "sickly" in general, shortness of breath. Some days I feel like I am not

that bad at all...example: Yesterday, my husband and I went for a 45min run in the trails, stopping occasionally. Now, it is no where near as fast as I

used to be able to go, but w/ how I am now days...I'll take that any day! During the run it felt great to get out and sweat a ton but later on

in the day I got a terrible headache and became all emotional out of no where and was light-headed, sort of short of breath. Today, I woke up and I feel as

if I got like 1 hour of sleep even though I got about 8 hours and I just feel over-all dead sleepy tired and just that "sickly" feeling. My issue is:

I'm 24 years old and being a runner my whole life and having that mentality makes it really hard to really know how to "listen" to my body. When I used

to train for cross country 4 years ago, peaking at 60 miles per week, I felt "fatigued and achy" but mentally told myself that I had to go out and do my

run/workout because in the end it would ultimately push me further and get me fitter for races. Now, it is an entirely different kind of fatigue and not

feeling up for running. What is hard is mentally I know I don't run at all as mush as I used to and I get 10 times more tired now. My LLMD just started me

on Minocyline and also supplements to support my adrenal fatigue. I just need some advice on how to make the right decisions on when to run vs. when not

to run?? I tend to be very stubborn about when to say to admit to myself that today is not the day to push it. Any advice or thoughts would be great!!

P.S. sorry for the looooooong post : )

I find that my endurance levels cycle with my symptoms. I have pushed to the point of my legs buckling and getting light headed or falling down because my legs turned to jello.

Each time my legs have given out I feel like they are tree trunks. They get heavy and lactic then they give out and I have to take some time off to recover. I usually feel flu like when this happens.

My advice is take things slow work up to what you once did. Make a note of symptoms and recovery time. That will help you see if you are gage what is too far.

Good Luck!

I went from not being able to lift 5LBs to being able to do a chin-up.

the complete body pain, and many more things.

study and maybe still hang out w/ friends...now...a whole new story! It is certainly hard not to compare myself to how I "used" to be, especially because a lot of my self confidence came from my athletics. I try really hard but sometimes I give into that! I am a

firm believer that "everything does happen for a reason" and that through all of this I will some how be stronger : )This is making me discover another part of who I am and what makes me, ME! (still

workin on that haha: ) It is sooooo hard though some days to not get down about it and I am sure you feel the same way?!