A Day In The Life Of Chronic Fatigue

A Day In The Life Of Chronic Fatigue

Along with Fibromyalgia, I have Chronic Fatigue. I was reminded about the misery of Chronic Fatigue this past seventeen days. Normally, with my current medication, both for Chronic Fatigue and Insomnia and caffeine pills, I keep my fatigue at a manageable level.

I went to the doctor seventeen days ago and needed a refill for several pills. Some prescriptions were sent electronically and some were handwritten. We talked about the Nuvigil which is what I take in the morning to help me be alert. Sometimes I augment the Nuvigil with some caffeine pills. The doctor forgot to send in my Nuvigil. After the dust had settled, I had all my prescriptions filled, or so I thought. I had two Nuvigil pills left. In a couple of days there was no more Nuvigil and I realized that Nuvigil prescription had not been filled so I called the pharmacy. They’ve been known to mess up on prescriptions. They had no record of the prescription so I called the doctor’s office, they faxed an order over to the pharmacy.

Later that day, I called the pharmacy and they didn’t have it. By then it was too late to call the doctor’s office. Making a long story short, I went through this for several days. I was getting more fatigued and sleepy during the day. My head was clouding up. I was able to do a few things each day, but then by afternoon I started falling asleep on and off for the rest of the day. Add a cloudy tired mind to fibro fog and it’s a real treat. NOT.

I had the doctor fax the prescription in a few times and then I had them electronically send it in a few times. Every time I called the pharmacy they didn’t have any record of it. I asked the pharmacy to call and fax the doctor.

This all went on for about a week I thought, maybe ten days. I finally physically went to the doctor’s office to get a physical prescription that I would hand deliver to the pharmacy.

Between the receptionist and the nurse the wires got crossed and the nurse sent it in electronically. While I had access to the nurse, I called the pharmacy and verified by the pharmacist they had received the order. Halelua, the pharmacy had the prescription for Nuvigil in their system! It was filled by the time I got there.

Everyone who has chronic pain, fatigue or fibromyalgia has more than their share of medicine stories, this is nothing new. What I learned about all of this was that after two days of Nuvigil in my system I could see a radical difference in my head. I went from fatigue in my mind and very sleepy too much less sleepy and much less fatigued. It is imperative that we manage out medicine as patients with chronic illnesses.

Also, if I hadn’t had such a cloudy head from the chronic fatigue, I would likely have had this issue resolved much sooner. I thought this whole story took about a week or ten days, but as I sat down to write this post I looked up when my doctor’s anointment was and it turns out that this whole scenario was seventeen days, not ten days. Time seems to slowly float by unaware when you’re in the throes of fatigue or pain.

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