Although I haven't yet tried to walk farther, I can walk two miles most days, exercise, work at the computer, do needle art for several hours, and prepare meals. I've ventured out to Wal-Mart, the supermarket, and to a show of Manet still lifes at the Walters Art Museum, something I haven't been able to do in many years. Moreover, for the first time since we've lived here, I'm now able to have dinner in the dining room. Still mostly in seclusion, I'm certainly not able to live what most people think of as a normal life, but I'm feeling good, almost free of distressing symptoms. Some public places and certain social situations, however, as well 'as over-exertion, still bring on those symptoms.
Sleep continues to be problematic.
I have to spend twelve hours a night in bed to get barely seven hours of broken sleep. I've decided to give Seriphos another trial. It's supposed to help sleep by calming the hypothalamus-pituitary axis, but it had no effect on me at all a year ago. Maybe now that I'm in a different stage of CFS, it may help. Although I'm not able to live as I used to before CFS, I'm nevertheless much better than I was a year ago and encouraged to continue treatment.