This is the thing that scares me the most, and it has persisted for 6 months now. I don't know how to classify this issue.

Basically, I cannot do anything physical for more than about 5-10 minutes. I mean continual activity, like when I try to fix a meal for my family or help out with cleaning around the house. Anything where I am physically active and moving around/manipulating objects for anything longer than 5 minutes, and in fact the more complex the activity the worse the effects are and the faster they manifest.

The effects are that A) I get a burning headache just above my forehead, in a very localized area. This also brings on the other headaches, like pressure on my temples and around my eyes. B) I get the cold chills and shivers in my limbs and spine. C) I get dizzy and unbalanced, light headed and weak feeling. D) I get very cranky and irritable (but that's most of the time, anyway).

When something like this happens, I am done for the day. The headaches will be severe, won't go away until I've gone back to sleep for a good while, and I'll be physically wiped out like I've just run a damned marathon. I mean, we're talking about pancakes and bacon here, for 4 people. The closest approximation I can come up with is when I have been dreadfully sick, like the time I got a bladder infection or a really bad upper GI infection, when you've been vomiting your guts out for a day or two, and you've stopped all that and the fever is broken and you try to do something normal in your life. Then WHAM, your body shuts you down in a heartbeat b/c it's not strong enough for normal activity yet. This is what it feels like, or the closest thing I can come up with.

Like I said this is the thing that scares me the most, that for some reason after 6 months I am still not able to do something as basic as pancakes and bacon for my family w/o the above symptoms. It feels like something major is still healing and my body needs all the energy it has to do that, but I would think after 6 months, considering nothing was broken, fractured, or bled from my injury, this should not still be a problem. But, I attempt something several times a week to see if I can do it, plus I love to cook and I'm damned good at it. Tomorrow is going to be Hell without my grill fired up!

So, thanks for reading this far. I'm going to be on my own soon as far as treatment goes since WC is kicking me to the curb, so I thought I'd look around. Nothing I've looked into describes what I'm talking about, but then again I may not have recognized what I was reading.