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Just had my hormones tested and Testosterone was high, Estradiol was normal. We were checking because of the fatigue. My Glucose now every test is reaching around 100 or over. My TENS unit is my friend. I can feel my muscle tone disappearing and even though I do cardio, not enough, it isn't going to help my muscles. We all need strength training and being a senior, I can tell. I vacuum now and it takes 2 days for shoulders and back to stop hurting. I have always been a member of a gym on and off since my 20's and have kept active, but something just interfering now. Connective tissues problems sound like what I have going on. All over. I wore a small, heeled shoe the other night and my ankles hurt the next day, not joints, the tissue around the ankles. Just weird. I do have to step up and do more than 30 minutes a day of active exercise, the fatigue hinders also. I will keep on researching and maybe a blood test one day will show something.
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You sound a lot like me! It sounds like the inflammatory reaction I have when I do weeding or vacuuming as you say! My whole body freezes up after a little bit of exertion. I had gout. (is that more correct to say I have gout?) After 30 years of having the same problem somebody here recommended the tart cherry capsules. I bought the ZAZZEE tart cherry capsules on Amazon for $20 and in 24 hours my whole body inflammatory condition kind of stopped! The next time I did housework and we did I did not have that physical hangover. Why don’t you try it and see if it helps you. The second thing is now the metformin. My A1c was borderline at 5.5 5.6. I pushed to try the metformin because there’s no consequences. That made a huge difference as well. My bones and muscles seem to glide over each other. I asked my doctor for the metformin for the insulin resistance and for the belly fat I have been accumulating and not being able to read myself of. Why it would make a dramatic impact on my body overall I don’t know, but it feels like things are just gliding over each other my lightheadedness has stopped and I don’t have weird cravings for sweets and no longer ravenously hungry. I am also wondering how that plays into the allopurinol I take for gout? And I don’t believe my doctor is gonna know the answer but the lab test won’t lie. I’ll ask for some more lab tests.
You are having an inflammatory reaction. That’s what the ankle situation the way you explained it tells me. 20 years ago I was diagnosed with OA, carpal tunnel, stenosis, and something else in my wrist and hands. I used to type, and my hands would end up being braces. If I didn’t attend to it, my elbows would start hurting, and it was all attributed to connective tissue issues. Today I have zero problems I have learned a lot of things over 25 years how to not put too much pressure on my connective tissue and to use better positioning when I type paint or weed. This all seemed to correspond about the time that I went through menopause. If your testosterone is high, then you shouldn’t be fatigued! And if you are, it indicates to me at least that your you may be insulin resistant my glucose is less than yours, but there you have it. It’s the A1c that tells you better.