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Hi,

I haven't been following the list for awhile but have recently started

reading posts every once in awhile. I see there are questions about

Bos Docs..and now this morning weak feeling. I have Dr Korson as a

specialist in Boston and find him to be very involved when I am sick and

full of common sense suggestions about what to try to mediate symptoms.

He is very overstretched with way more patients than he can handle and

this doesn't allow him to give his best, but he tries hard. Lately I

have had the feeling that he maybe experiencing burnout.

I had an appt w Dr Simms, but she has a different approach. Dr Korson

comes at it from a metabolic approach rather than a nuerological

approach. I just felt the metabolic approach fits my situation better.

I am having a relapse that just started a week ago Sunday. I am getting

concerned that it is spinning down and I am having trouble figuring out

what to do for myself. I started having general fatigue, hand and arm

pain and burning from overusing the computer. Then got some bad news

last week that created a lot of stressful situations and my body over

reacted, chest pain and skipping beats. It has been recommended that I

take a stress test.

I have been trying to rest more and lower the stress but every day

instead of feeling better, I am feeling worse. Yesterday, every muscle

in my body hurt. I couldn't get comfortable no matter what I did. I

had a hard time falling asleep from muscle pain. When I get up to walk

around I feel weaker and after I sit back down, my heart feels like it

is pounding. I seem to be getting nerve ending pain. My sleep is

interrupted, my digestive system is slowed down with other symptoms. I

thought resting would speed up recovery, but now I am wondering if it is

exacerbating it and I need to go back to being more active.

I am taking QGel and carnitine..2 30mg caps in morning, than 1 30mg at

lunch and dinner. One carnitine 3x a day. At first I cut back on the

supplements because my stomach was rebeling against everything. But now

am going the opposite direction and trying to increase the supplements.

Someone suggested I take alphalipoic acid for the muscle pain, but my

stomach didn't appreciate the new supplement.

Can anyone make any suggestions for what I might do to speed up the

recovery time? How do you handle a crash? Something to ease the muscle

pain?

Thanks,

Adam