So sick of having no energy. I'm new to the forum, just looking for support bc i feel so alone and feel like no one gets it

[Auriel]

have you ever tried heated mattress pads?

Ooh heated mattress pads sound cosy, I want one!, I want one now!, ok Dear Santa .................

 

[JayCS]

it all kind of depends on the lotion, i think.some do need to be reapplied frequently, others not as much.
lanolin based stuff - ... greasy feeling side initially, but you dont have to reapply nearly as often. for my cotton socks so the sheets dont get all greasy, ... keeping the cream where .. needed... hands ... gloves

Ah, OK, shea butter, lanolin, I'll look out for those.
I do have thin cotton gloves, should put them to use like that!
Wonder if I can type and play cards with them on... a new challenge ... lemme see..
Whoops, typing works, needs a bit of getting used to, just the mousepad doesn't react... but heck, I'm a keyboard geek anyway.

who can say what's normal since we're all different and live in different environments. As for your hands, I think much would depend also on how often you have them under water during the day. That being said, 10 times a day does seem excessive. I hope the shea butter works for you. .. awesome!

Ah, true, silly me. Yep, and water is something even my normal skin overreacts to with itching, so it may be the way my hands react from washing them (probably >20x/day for 10-20'') - and feet don't, cos they only get 2 minutes of water per day: I've now changed from an good plant bar of soap to a liquid soap made mainly from olive and coconut oil, calendula=marigold added, that's also making a difference along with the akilwinter cream. For lips I'm comparing 2 organic ones I've got out of "the "closet again, an aloe vera one with a shea butter (ah!), coconut oil, beeswax... one.

I think I was inhibited from putting on all this stuf, cos of the maxim of not wanting to get the skin lazy from producing enough protection itself. But that's never worked anyway, I usually ended up with bleeding knuckles and lips which take ages to heal. So this is definitely the better way. However even with I guess 5x at night and >5x in the daytime, hands and lips are still dry, tender and slightly chapped. - That I think is the reason why I often haven't been bothered, just ignored it, cos they're tender while creaming and remain raw. But I'll keep at it, compare more, try shea butter and lanolin on the hands. (Maybe I could put one type on one side and another on the other...).
Same for my face, my wife keeps urging me, but then I've put some on all day and she still urges me, and I think - heck, I'm a bloke, I hate all this cream stuff, esp. if it ain't even workin well.

 

[cookiebaker]

Ooh heated mattress pads sound cosy, I want one!, I want one now!, ok Dear Santa .................

They are Oh, So Cozy!
Yes, ask Santa for sure!

so it may be the way my hands react from washing them (probably >20x/day for 10-20'')

just curious, why are you washing so much and for so long? 10-20 minutes? seems a bit excessive to me.

the product I use has been around since 1899 and is called Bag Balm, made in Vermont, USA. My mom started buying it when us kids were still quite young, so I am very familiar with the product. Works for pretty much any kind of skin problem - from minor cuts & scrapes to dry, chapped skin and pretty much everything in between. Even helps with eczema and psoriasis...
I use it a lot to help wounds heal once they are scabbed over well - it helps keep the skin supple and reduces scarring.

 

[JayCS]

10-20 minutes? seems a bit excessive to me.

That'd be very OCD. Minutes is ', seconds is ''. (3'21'' is 3 minutes 21 seconds.)
Is 20x a day a lot, especially considering Covid?
20x is about the amount I go to the toilet every day/night.... Then brushing teeth 3x, coming in from the outside 5x, preparing food 6x, muddy things in the garden 5x, dusty things in the cellar 5x, guinea pigs stuff 5x.... OK, let's say 30-40x... .

Bag Balm, hmm... I'll have a look at the ingredients... Thanks for the suggestion!

At the moment I'm trying to put everything on more regularly, sometimes with your glove idea. Maybe they're still rough, because I hadn't.

 

[cookiebaker]

Minutes is ', seconds is ''

LOL, ok, my mistake, sorry about that.. and thank you for clarifying for me.

Bag Balm ingredients are very simple, and honestly, i think it is the lanolin base that is the key, but for sure, do your research.

and yes, putting something on more regularly will help more.

 

[JayCS]

lips are still dry

Hands better, after a month with recurring changing small slits around several finger tips.
But lips worse: chapped, burning, despite drinking 3l/d = 100oz, using lip balm >10x/d.
They feel and look inflamed to me, when I press them slightly they go back to the previous white.
I stopped my antihistamine and changed the lip balm 2 days ago, the weather is warmer at the moment, nothing makes a difference.
@johnsalmon just wrote dry eyes could be Hashimoto's: reading up chapped lips, autoimmune does seem the most likely, but again that doesn't help, so I'll probably have to go back to accepting it.

Back to the thread title: my energy has been down to around 10% for about a month now. By stopping it, I'm testing if it was from taking the antihistamine so long, since the 3rd jab in Nov. It felt as if the jab hit home 2 months later, and the TCM recommendations of my new health practitioner taking my appetite didn't help either, so I'm trying to see if I can turn the clock back a month, at least partly. I'm still doing what I can which means I'm "shuffling thru the day", doing a lot of stuff, but very slowly. Weirdly usually winning at table tennis, when it's possible at all, so it's not affecting my fine motor skills, I seem to be playing better by not thinking about it, so I'm not sure about the fog. My language is getting more confused and regular mishaps. Today I felt better during table tennis than before, so we went for 3 games, instead of the 1 that I'd planned, and feared a backlash: Didn't seem a problem tho!?
After back exercises I felt like having a go at push ups cos I felt my arm muscles might be able to, but something in the ball of my left hand was hurting, partly right, so I stopped after 4. My body's changing except my radical acceptance of it, and joy of life.... My ambition now got the better of me and I tried the push ups again, and easily managed 10 quick ones by going easy on both thumb/hand balls (w?) which of course means increased strain on the arm muscles - but no problem, feels good, oxygen/lungs good too, just now both hands hurting a bit... The wrist joints have absolutely no problem, I guess it's once against the tendons above and below. That's also the feeling I had before starting the push ups, so I waited and tensed up a bit before starting to "warm them up" a bit, otherwise it'd've ended same as before.
Weird, but fun!

 

[JayCS]

But lips worse: chapped, burning, despite drinking 3l/d = 100oz

I feel a bit foolish - I just realized my lips hurt more from how/much I'm drinking at the moment....

The 3L is mainly almond milk/drink, partly soy, recently trying millet.
But all in single mouthfuls/gulps, 1-2 per capsule directly out of a tetra pak.
The lid of the sort I buy at the moment has a double-winding fairly sharp "thread",
and to keep mishaps down I put my lips tightly around it (and even often close it after every gulp).
So 100-200 gulps = rasps per day... . Let's see if it improves at last...
Feels nice and luxurious to drink out of a cup, but a bit dangerous at first, so I'll keep to the kitchen.

 

[JayCS]

Last night it improved, hurt less, altho I've detected a sore on one side of the mouth too now, but this morning despite careful drinking worse. The only thing I changed was I used dry mouth gel instead of the seemingly favourite aloe vera lip balm at night. Which reminds me of the caveat that putting substances on our body (also in it) may reduce its production even more. That's the feeling I also often got when putting substances on my skin, which is OK with the organic natural lotions I use at the moment. But maybe the balm makes my lips worse...

 

[Auriel]

What's going on with you, Jaycs, that you're coming out with sore lips and sores?