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Your doing great. The best we can because we’re on our own with Covid. Just have to address the symptoms as they come. I ordered ensure so when not eating I could drink instant food plus get vitamins. They were only 220 calories each though. The insomnia can interfere with your energy and well as short term memory or recall. A lot of people especially retired have that complaint. There prescribing cpap’s as a quick fix it appears. I really don’t know if they were assessed properly for really having sleep apnea. A friend might try it now. I think in some cases with post retirement it’s too much energy. There not as active anymore so they don’t sleep through the night. It started happening to me too and when Covid hit, started to get chills, fever and extreme fatigue I welcomed it. I thought finally I can sleep and slept through the night.
Not being physically tired enough I think it makes you easier to rouse for any sound including irrelevant too that you might ignore if physically tired. A car, sirens what ever.
I think WiFi and all the electric too. When I went to a mountain in a cabin with no TV WiFi et all to go water rafting few years back I didn’t remember falling asleep.I put a movie on from my iPad I down loaded and laid down. All of a sudden it was 5 am and didn’t not remember even starting to fall asleep. I decided to check that and went back couple weeks later and the same thing happened. Still working at the time if I woke for any reason I could immediately go back to sleep. After retired that unused energy I might stay awake and wonder if WiFi and internet is part of that in that you can also turn it on lol It’s also quiet away from the city in the mountains. Nothing to wake you.
There might be multi reasons for insomnia.
One thing that helped when I didn’t want to go to sleep but knew I had to while working was lavender oil. A nurse told me about it at work when I wasn’t getting enough sleep because I didn’t feel tired. She got me a bottle and paid her. Said dab it on your body like forehead even your foot. You should be able to fall asleep I didn’t have much faith it would work but thought I’d try it. It actually worked. She had issues with management and we all did she retired and lost track of her so don’t know where she got that brand. I had her hole number but after the work thing I didn’t want to bother her. I had a over active thyroid though that gave me a false sense of energy plus could eat anything and never gain weight. When I dropped 20 Lbs pretty quick I didn’t need to lose and didn’t feel right and was getting tremors in my hands. I could feel something being released in my body.bit took some thought to do that. I wanted a thyroid check and didn’t even have to ask this doctor Before I finished telling him my symptoms he told me he’s doing a thyroid panel. The lab results set up a emergency visit with a specialist and a lot of tests and biopsy to check for cancer. Now I’m on medicine to slow the thyroid hormone release and probably cant eat what ever I want but works out. It slowed my metabolism and wasn’t hungry. At first I had to make myself eat. I wasn’t going to have it removed after they found a nodule because it wasn’t a hot nodule and either way I’d be on medicine and thyroid has multi purposes. So will have to do a sonogram every few years. Most people fearing cancer just have it removed.
But as far as energy it can go two ways. It can also cause fatigue or low energy warned the specialist. It’s very strange.
So things can change in your body over time so good to have a lab check up including thyroid.
Part of the reason one of the doctors, doctor Patterson at flccc who treats long haulers and now vaccine problems said from memory as I listened to a lot of them was there is still some inflammation going on that one of the things he treated with was anti inflammatory’s.
Ie Part of the inflammation stage luckily mild with us but with too many of them as it hit people with cytokine storm Ards blood clots , is inflammation your body cleaning up after the battle. It then has to rid itself of all those dead spike protein floating around. Dr Patterson was a proponent of pushing for longer disability time because of it and what he called long haulers because it’s a real illness.
So if you are still within the norm perhaps keep doing what your doing because it seems to be working. If your not getting enough calories you can add health shakes or Ensure or Boost.