I am suddenly very weak, and I can't figure out why. I haven't been exerting myself, and it's the part of my cycle where I'm usually strongest.

I have an old friend visiting. She has a troubled daughter, and there was bad news about her that upset me. Also, yesterday I watched my husband climb a ladder way up into a tree to pull down some fallen branches that were caught up there--he had to get them down because we were worried that they'd fall on the children. I was terrified that he would fall.

I have had this disease for about a year and a half. The "traumas" I describe above aren't so out of the ordinary. Life is full of emotional shocks. It could be that emotions have made me weak before and I never made the connection, or it could be that this is a coincidence, and I'm weak for some other reason. I don't know. Do the rest of you find that emotional upsets trigger weakness?

Abby