Hi aweekes,
Thanks for your support.
I seem to have such a low immune system through all this. I am still not completely over my chest infection but now I have a blocked eustachian tube causing massive pain and hearing loss in one ear. I am feeling like I am due a win sometime soon, surely.
All the questions I have can be answered with, "it varies person to person", so they don't really help. Dr Kim's timeline is really useful. I keep reminding myself it will take time. How long did it take for your withdrawal symptoms to stop?
I do feel like a prisoner in my home. The purging is such I can't go far. I am going grey ungracefully because I can't get out to get my hair dyed (first world problems).
I have restless limb syndrome in my forearms. The pain at night from that makes me feel very aggitated. Regardless of how I try to stretch or massage them it doesn't help and it hurts until I fall asleep exhausted.
Waking up is the hardest thing. I am struggling every day to get up even days when hubby and the 3 kids are here. I wake in a heavy fog despite not being on any medication now. The pain washes over me and it is like I feel each and every area that hurts switch on, one by one. Then I roll over and close my eyes and wish myself back to sleep.
If there are any tips on how to manage the waking up better that would be great.
I am having a go at a visualisation exercise suggested where I imagine all the pains are fires and then work at extinguishing them. I am just not good at this yet and the option to just try and sleep again feels much stronger.
I have stopped crying all the time, there's a positive.
