What can cause severe muscle fatigue and even pain at wake-up?
When I wake-up (i.e. hear the alarm clock and open my eyes) I experience severe muscle fatigue, that I am hardly able to force myself to move my arms and legs to get-up. I feel like my muscles were extremely weak at that moment, and I also feel pain in them. It feels so bad and weak, that half of the time I am not getting out of bed, and sleep another few hours, although I already had enough sleep, and it doesn't feel any better after the extra sleep - in fact it feels worse.
When I do finally manage to get out of bed, the muscle fatigue and pain magically goes away after 15-30 minutes, and during the day I feel completely normal, full of energy and fine.
It doesn't matter if its after a 2-hour nap or a long 8-hour sleep, its the same fatigue. And I am not feeling sleepy, drowsy or anything like that, I just feel my muscles are extremely weak. I am skinny, 60 kg, but slowly gaining weight, in fact I am tracking my food intake and making sure I get at least 2850 kcal each day, so I have enough energy source. And during the day I am not feeling the fatigue or energy-less, its just right after wake-up.
What might be the cause of this?
EDIT: more info:
I measured my blood pressure immediately after wake-up. It was 77/37 mmHg. And that is an average of 10 measurements taken in the 10 minutes after wake-up. That's somehow low, isn't it?
Not that my blood pressure normally during the day is too good, it is on average something around: 95/62 mmHg. After riding on bicycle for an hour it is about 103/64 mmHg.
Can that have something to do with my wake-up fatigue? What can I do to get my blood pressure to some normal levels?
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I've experienced that due to diet throughout my life. When I was a kid I would always have difficulties waking up and would have incredible weakness in my hands - I couldn't snap the button of my pants together, I was that weak. My mother took me to an alternative allergist who put me on a specific diet, and very quickly I was able to wake up full of energy and without any weakness.
I recently had similar symptoms hit me after eating a particular cereal/granola mix. I woke up with a lot of joint pain and was fairly fatigued. I made sure not to eat that cereal again and a few days later I was fine again.
The thing is there's no way to really predict what's causing the problems, and it might even change. For a while I couldn't handle bread made from whole wheat flour or anything with brown rice. After switching to white bread and white rice, the situation reversed and I had to go back to whole wheat and brown. Since then I've just always had a habit of cycling my diet, so I don't stick consistently eating one thing for longer than 3 months.
Keeping a journal of what you eat, and trying taking certain foods out until you feel better is the only way you'd be able to figure it out by yourself. Seeing an allergist or nutritionist might also help, but that could be prohibitively expensive depending on where you live and what kind of insurance you have.
*Thank you for posting this. I struggled with the SAME symptoms as you for years.
I recommend that you detox your body of toxins that have accumulated over time. Your body flushes out those toxins through your urine so drink as much water as you can handle. As you cleanse your body you may experience increased fatigue, moodiness, and in extreme cases, flu symptoms. This should only last a few days. One trick I use is to take Epsom Baths. I ALWAYS keep Epson Salt on hand.
Ensuring that those deep body aches will not return requires drinking plenty of water each day, detox friendly foods, stretching out your muscles, and excersize. All of these will also prevent pressure points or those knots in your muscles. Good Luck
Increase Water Consumption
Increase Physical Activity
Stretch Muscles
Epsom Baths
Detox-Friendly Diet
visit livestrong.com/article/72677-full-body-detox-diet/
Do you live in any sort of shared or communal housing (such as a college dorm)? The symptoms you describe are very similar to how I felt when I had mono. I'd do some basic research on it and if you feel it might fit, see a doctor. I made the mistake of trying to ignore it and ended up grappling with the disease for 13 months. Not fun.
I realize this is more of a medical answer than a nutrition and fitness one, but in this case the cause might be medical, so I hope I'll be forgiven for it.
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