Feeling Alive!

Something wonderful has happened in the past few days. For a whole month after I finished the gluten challenge I was exhausted all the time. I felt lots better than I had felt while on it, and the brain fog was absent, as was the whole body aching, but I just couldn't shake being tired. I was very worried about this: I thought it might never change, I wasn't sure it had been induced by the gluten. What if gluten was just part of the problem, and there was something deeper? Probably worrying about it made me even more tired. I was taking naps during the day whenever I could. I was sleeping at least 8 hours a night (though I'm not convinced my sleep was very good quality.

This week on Monday and Tuesday I got sick, in addition to being tired. Blagh. How was I ever going to have the energy to apply for jobs, and get all the other thousand-and-one things done that I wanted to do? Should I chalk this exhaustion up to depression? To being by myself all day every day? I just didn't know what to think.

I started taking vitamin supplements again (especially vitamin D), but with all the studies recently about the uncertainty of whether supplements do any good, I figured it was an empty gesture.

But then, on Tuesday afternoon after my nap (I was out like a rock for an hour), I started to feel like a new person! Maybe it was the nap? Maybe it was going out to see a friend right after that? I figured I would probably crash again, but I'd enjoy it while it lasted, and when Hubs came home from work, he was pleasantly surprised to be greeted with a much more cheerful wife than he'd seen in a while (especially at the end of the day).

In spite of very poor sleep on Tuesday night, my energy continued into Wednesday, and then yesterday as well. My cold came back suddenly, with a vengeance, but even that didn't drag me down! I feel GREAT! It's already 10:45am and I don't need a nap! And don't feel likely to need one in the near future, either. HURRAY!!!!

I guess it just took me a whole month to get over the effects of the gluten. Which isn't really a surprise, but I wasn't giving myself a chance to get better.

Huzzah for energy! It is amazing to feel alive again. And that gluten stuff is poison.