[Junker]

To cope with MG I need plans and schedules. Once I am on track with my physiotherapy units, gym and stretching exercises and diet efforts, I appreciate my progress, write it down in my MG diary and motivate myself for the next steps.

But as you all know, these plans may all of a sudden seem like a waste of paper and time. When it´s getting tough, being overwhelmed by tiredness and fatigue, I tend to lose focus and fall into depression. Not always, but often enough.

Zen Meditation used to be a relaxation technique that worked for me. But that was before MG. Nowadays I am lacking the focus and the strength for determined meditation. Relaxation turns into sheer tiredness and body pain overwhelms my mind.

So I am trying to find energy and motivation by reading and dealing with philosophy. It is hard, however, to concentrate and I became a real slow reader. Lately I found some encouragement and new power by dealing with the myth of Sisiphus, who would have to push a rock up a mountain again and again, just like coping with MG flares and fatigue again and again….

[Mama]

I do not have any specific things that I do. I determine how fatigued I am and adjust my day accordingly. I am on a new eating plan, and I seem to get less fatigued with sugar and junk food out of my diet.