Hi Saffy- The tiredness can surely be the function of the meds you are prescribed, for I have been there. Such a question becomes one of those "check with your doc questions" just to ensure there is not something medicinally awry, but, while on SO MUCH MED, I did feel drugged into a fog much more often than not.
Another possibility rears its ugly head in the context of depression, common in a situation where there is a patient who has tried the road less travelled as it is the last of the treatments available to folks like us, and when there is a feeling that all may have been for naught and pain continues unabated, depression can be a result. This, too, is a "check with your doc" imperative, for its work on the self can be devastating untreated. Did I experience depressoin? Most assuredly, as is chronicled in my thread last autumn when after going through the surgery, and just after all of the withdrawal from meds it seemed as though I was a nothing, a healed nobody in whom no one had interest regarding the potentiality for re-employment. Actually, it was likely the combination of so soon after complete withdrawal and experiencing some rejection that I fell deeply into the wicked embrace of depression, something to sit up and take immediately to your doc.
One question, two answers. Hope these possibilities may be of help to you dear friend.
Caring Loads,
Mark56
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