Agreed. I still need sunlight though. Having lived with this condition for four consecutive summers, I’ve proved beyond doubt to myself that I feel way way better with fewer symptoms if I get fairly regular doses of sunlight.
Come September or October I start feeling crappier again, regardless of how many supplements I take.
That’s not to say I lay out in it for hours and hours but I try and grab a couple of hours at the beach for swimming and snorkelling etc on nicer days when work allows.
Also good exercise as well as the walk up and down the cliff
I fully realise too much sun exposure isn’t good but it’s a compromise of sorts and it gives me a few months respite.
The first few months of the year until it warms up I feel like total shite on some days, with muscle and joint pain (to codeine or tramadol level sometimes), fatigue, some brain fog, various other things.
If I wasn’t self employed I think I’d struggle to hold down a full time job these days, but as it is I can choose to work during my better days in the winter. I’d be screwed if I had to be at a place of work every day at 9am. Some days it takes the morning for the meds to kick in enough to be able to actually do something.
I can live with it, others have far worse things, but you can appreciate why I like to get a bit of sun!
Sun must be shining out my arse,
and not yours.
) they stimulate the production of vitamin D depending on how much your body needs, which in turn helps my body to absorb calcium.
