Fatigue after exercise, for days

[Unregistered]

I've had multiple instances of severe fatigue 30-90 minutes after moderate exercise that lasts for 2 or more days. I'm fine while exercising -- I even feel good -- but just "crash" later. The exercise is walking, and this has happened both with 45-minute walks and 10-minute walks.

My doctor ordered a cardiac stress test, but that showed I was above average for my age. She also tested for Lyme disease and did a full blood test. Nothing came up unusual.

Since it's exercise-related, she suggested I might be hypoglycemic. Tired of the merry-go-round, I bought a glucose meter and started testing. My BG was rather normal before and after exercise (around 100-120) and dropped only to about 90-100 after exercise, and often normalized by the time I felt symptoms. She ran an HbA1c and the results were 5.9, which isn't either low or high. She's going to have me meet with the diabetes educator and see if we can figure it out. Her hunch is that I'm having highs and lows and just not catching it on the glucose meter.

Could it be anything else? I know diabetes causes fatigue, but I thought it was a generalized fatigue (which I also have, though much milder). I've cut my carbs to low levels, but I'm still eating a slice of whole-wheat bread every day, plus other complex carbs occasionally.

I had Hepatitis C 5 years ago and successfully underwent 8 months of Interferon/Ribavirin treatment. The doctor hasn't checked viral load because my ALT and AST are normal and it's her thought (and the hepatologist's) that those numbers would be high if the disease had returned. My liver biopsy before treatment showed moderate/severe fibrosis (3 on a scale of 4), but I've been told that that should be reversing itself.

Anyone have any recommendations what I should ask my doctor about next?

Thanks!

Mar2a

[Dxd]

How about hypothyroidism? Was that tested? Any TSH above 3 in the range of 0.4 - 4.12 is considered hypothyroidism.

Also sleep apnea could cause those symptoms too. Do you snore? Do you wake up refreshed? Do you take naps during the day?

Do you have any other symptoms besides the exercise intolerance? BTW, that's what this is called.

[Kiera]

Also one of my symptoms. Mine is also excersize induced. No idea what casues it and I have been tested for everything under the sun.

Keep us posted...


Kiera

[umpalumpa]

Anyone ever figure this out. I exercise and feel like im stoned (haven't smoked pot in years!). Exactly the same as the rest of you. I'm fine for about an hour after walking, then i just CRASH...must sleep. Gotta be some sort of chemical thing.

[rines]

I'm experiencing the same symptoms as listed above. I will feel fine while I'm exercising but about a hour or two after I will ‘crash’…. For the following 2 days or so I will feel absolutely fatigued, muscles aches, heart palps and I feel really on edge. I can’t focus at work and wake up several times during the night- like I’m just buzzing with adrenaline but cant do anything with it because of the fatigue and pain. I also experience little ‘jolts’ that wake me up which are really scary.

I have also had the cardio stress test done along with many other heart tests and like the first poster have been told that my heart is better than average. Although it has been told I have a harmless ectopic beat.

Likewise, my endo suggested that I have hypoglycemia but I’m not sure how that could make me feel so rotten for the next few days- especially as I eat after exercise.

If anyone finds the answer to this… please please please let me know! (jelliebeaners@hotmail.com) I used to be able to bust out 3 cardio classes in a row and feel fine. Now I suffer from 30 minutes of walking..... Please help!

I have been tested for nearly everything (including thyroid and adrenal function)- and all has come back fine (except for slight adrenal fatigue).

Thanks

rines

[Insearch of answers]

I wish someone could figure this out. I have been struggling with this issue for 3 years now. Extreme fatigue lasting 2-3 days after minimal exercise. My doctor has tested for everything! Thyroid, cardiac test, saw the sleep doctor, etc. Every test comes back normal. This is the most frustrating thing I have ever experienced! I have to basically give up exercise because of the dreadful side effects.....

[Unregistered]

I wish someone could figure this out. I have been struggling with this issue for 3 years now. Extreme fatigue lasting 2-3 days after minimal exercise. My doctor has tested for everything! Thyroid, cardiac test, saw the sleep doctor, etc. Every test comes back normal. This is the most frustrating thing I have ever experienced! I have to basically give up exercise because of the dreadful side effects.....

I am dealing with this same problem. Every doctor I go too runs tests and everything turns out normal.

So fatigue after exercise even messes up my ability to think straight. I also become very moody and feel as though I have the flu after exercise. If I keep pushing through trying to exercise and try to get things done I just feel more and more miserable, like I could die sometimes. It takes a very long time to recover.

I know this seems like a weird question but do any of you have silver fillings in your mouths? I have some and was told by the dentist that they are leaking. I have read that this can leak toxins into your body that can cause fatigue.

Some doctors say that mercury silver amalgams being harmful is just nonsense and they are perfectly safe. I don't know what to believe.

So I am wondering if any of you have any silver fillings in your mouth like me. Please reply.

[Ron Fri]

I found this thread while diagnosing my symptoms, looking for things I can get checked out. Whatever we have apparently does not exist. I eat 6 meals a day spaced out, get plenty of sleep and still feel fatigued after exercise. I want to exercise more but I can't. If I try to fight through it and exercise anyway, I get more run down and feel worse for longer. I race motorcycles on Sundays, and takes until Friday before I start feeling normal. Also I have stopped drinking alcohol because I get the same symptoms. A hangover from just 2-3 drinks can leave me with the same fatigued feeling for 2-3 days or more. One drink a night will catch up to me after a few days and get same feeling. I am starting to think it is all some kind of dehydration issue that is not curable just by drinking lots of fluids. I drink at least a gallon of water a day. Once I got severely dehydrated and was given 2 IV's at the same time and then put on a drip overnight. I felt better than I can ever remember. Clear headed and confident. I think about it so much I have starting researching how to give myself IV fluids. I will bookmark this thread in hopes that somehow this strange DISEASE gets solved...

[Unregistered]

Wow. I posted this message two years, three months ago, and I still haven't found the answer :-(

A few days ago I was talking to a runner and he asked if I ran. Before I could even finish my sentence, he finished it for me: "After an hour an a half, you're exhausted, right?" I explained that after an hour and a half I *had* to sleep, often sneaking out to my car at work for a quick nap because I couldn't stay awake.

We both agreed that it sounded like I was depleting my glycogen stores, and during the time my body was trying to fill them back up, I was exhausted. He asked if I had been athletic (no). His theory was that because I never did any exercise and because women tend to have less muscle tissue anyway, the problem was that I didn't have enough muscle tissue to store enough glycogen.

In other words, I can't store enough glycogen because I don't have enough muscle tissue to store it in.

So, what I'm going to try now is this: LIGHT (and I do mean light) weights to slowly build up arms and shoulders, leg llifts and walking to build up legs/hips. I walk only 15-20 minutes a day at a much slower pace than I can actually handle, and eat before I walk. I'll let you know how it works out.

I did a Google search last night to see if I could find anything to back up his theory, but the closest I came was to find references to "deconditioned" people having to build back very slowly. (The references were to deconditioning in those who were bedridden for a long time.) Most of the references I found were from people like us who have been battling this a long time with no luck :-(

[Unregistered]

Have any of you ever had mononucleosis( forgive spelling) in the past? I was diagnosed with an after affect of having it called CFS-Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Common belief is that you get mono from someone who has it, but in my case,it was an attack my own body did to itself to force me to sleep, which is something I often went without. I have relapses frequently and truthfully there is very little you can do about it. I would also get tested for Lyme Disease. I was diagnosed with that recently and my specialists believes that I have had it for years. Please understand that most tests that your family physician use to test for Lyme are extremely innacurate. The only way to really be tested for Lyme,is to see a Lyme specialist. Check out Lymenet.org for more accurate information. They have been a tremendous help to me.