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Give me some iron and apparently I’m suddenly raring to go again. 😅 I’m still tired, chronic fatigue doesn’t give up that easily.

But this is a massive step in the right direction after months of feeling really flat and ill. I’m going to still get tested by my GP for my B12.

But I’m so glad I’m starting to feel better again. Nothing’s changed in what I am taking compared to before. Going to get some new iron eventually but it doesn’t seem to be bothering me this time round, I’m not sure why I felt so ill before. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Top left is where I am now, bottom left is right at the start of my journey after having the little. I’d love to get close to be back where I was before. But I’m not going to go crazy with working out at the minute. I still have healing to do and although I feel better I know I’m not there yet. I’m just impressed that I mange to get back to pole this week and did a Jillian Michaels workout both went way better than normal. I actually had energy to complete them and did keep stopping and sitting on the floor. Which my teacher noticed because she definitely kicked my bum this week.

Some improvements that I have noticed:

•I’m no longer breathless

•the cold doesn’t effect my asthma

•I’m not waking up coughing

•I only coughed a little whilst working out

•My memory is slightly better

•I’m engaging in doing activities I love and enjoying them again

•My mood is better.

I’ve been supplementing on and off now for about 3 weeks. I’m interested to see what my iron is at, it was 25 last time I got tested, and then I did a private test Andy it said it was at 54, but I had just been ill, so I’m interested to see what it is now.

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My stomach has been off the last two days thanks to the iron (it was last time so I’m guessing that’s my issue.) I need a more gentle one so that I don’t keep getting sick.

Even tho the little has a really bad cough, and been up during the night, I’ve still had energy to get up in the morning. Don’t get me wrong I ca still feel the clawring tiredness that comes with chronic fatigue. But I don’t instantly fall back asleep as soon as I’m woken up in the morning which is nice.

We’ve also been spending a lot of time with friends the past couple of days, walks out and board games.

Energy levels: 4/10

Sleep: Low quality, lots of broken sleep and the little in with us last night so lots of elbows in my back etc 😂

Body: still achey and clicky but again not as bad. I’ve walked a lot and my leg didn’t hurt all night like it usually does, I also experienced lot less neck pain than usual which has been nice.

Positives more able to get up in the morning, negatives still tired and dodgy belly.

Still taking what I took last time, tho I did have a break today. Just to see if it helps the belly 😂😅

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Sorry I’ve been pretty quiet.

I’ve had a complete worry week as the little ended up having a high temperature on and off for 10 days now (not Covid), so we’ve spent a lot of time not sleeping much and giving her lukewarm baths at 5am when she was 40•c/104f. But last night she finally seemed to break the fever and was a normal temperature 3 times. So fingers crossed she’s past the worst of it and is feeling better soon, she just worried us for a while there.

Still working with my doctors 😅 more bloods on the 1st to get my b12 tested, I tried getting up to the centre where they have been doing them, but we’ve had a poorly baby to deal with so it’s not been top priority, in the end I just booked to be seen at our local surgery. So that I can just get it done.

But I do have more energy then I did, just nothing close to pre-doctors. Just more. A better than I’ve been recently, which is still a positive.

I’ve been handling going to pole well every two weeks, so I decided that I’d add in some more exercise each week, and see how my body responds. If I’m okay, I’ll add another day, but for the minute I’m just going to stick to low and slow. I’d rather not destroy my health in the pursuit of fitness. So today I stuck with a Jillian Micheals because it’s all I have on hand at the moment and it’s the easiest thing to just stick on an do, I did 6 week 6 pack level 1.

I am so unfit 😅 I know I am, I’m no where close to where I was, it’s always difficult knowing who you where and who you are now, and that it’s not who you’d chose to be. My health has really had such an impact on me physically, like you may not seen it. Especially if you see my pole photos. But that’s because I’m giving 110% in that lesson, every two weeks for a hour. When I was at my peak on here, giving 110% almost constantly and that’s why I crashed so hard in 2017. It’s why I’ve been so quiet. It’s why I don’t give it my all anymore. Because I am putting my health first, and that can be hard for others to understand because CF is invisible, you can’t see how much effort I put into my every day.

But it’s more than I should with how much I am doing, I should be able to do more and I can’t, so right now I’m going to figure out my health, wether that is figuring out a cause or figuring out a new way of living. But either way I’m going to do it in the most healthy way possible.

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Have a picture of today’s lunch because it was stupidly quick to make and very tasty!

Just left over rice, spinach, tuna fusion (teriyaki flavoured) with spring onion and crushed peanuts. Yum! Also 24g protein so that a win.

I also started taking iron, vitamin d and folate (along with a couple of others but not b12.) 2 days ago.

I’m hoping that makes a kind of dent in my energy levels etc. But I guess it will be a couple of months before I see any real difference I just wanted to actually start journaling my progress so that I can look back on how far I’ve come.

At the minute I’m on quite low doses but going to increase as I go and see whether that higher doses of iron buggers up my stomach 😅

Energy levels: 2/10

Sleep: Poor, woke up a lot got up at slept at 12:30 up at 8:30. Woken up by the baby at 3 for an hour.

Mood: Happier I seem to feel things more again. Less forced laughter, and feeling less numb.

Body: less achey, wasn’t as clicky today.

Vitamins: 4000iu vitamin d, 500mg Omega 3, 14mg iron, 100mg vitamin c, 10mg zinc, 100mg magnesium, b6.

Going to put these under a new tag of #healinghealthy so I can easily find all the posts. 👍 (it’s sounds like feeling healthy 😂 which makes my dorky heart happy.) Also changed my name to same thing.

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Got my results and my iron hasn’t budged and inch 😂 my b12 also went down so going to talk to my doctor about both of those. But good news my vitamin d did go up and that must be what’s influencing the change in my hair and my folate also went up 👍

I know all of these vitamin posts are annoying, I’m just trying to get better, I wish I could go to the gym and do fun stuff like that, like I used to. *sigh…

I’d did actually go to pole for the second week in a row and didn’t die. But I have no energy to do extra on top of that which I guess is explained by my results. 😐 I wish health was easier to fix. But here’s to hoping now that I know what is going down I can at least try and combat that.

The lights at pole this week where so pretty and apparently are going to becoming a permanent feature too 😊 I do love going back to this place. They know me, it feels like coming back to old friends, they help push me to keep going, and honestly it’s been helping my mental health a lot just being able to do a little more than I could before.

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