Published on 12, July, 2020
Does anyone experience periods of dizziness, sleepiness and sore throat as part of their autism fatigue?
I've experienced autistic burnout since the end of 2020 and was starting to recover but in the last year or so I've kept having what I had assumed were viruses- I'd have a few days where I felt dizzy, very sleepy (this feels different to the fatigue I experience the rest of the time and leads to me spending most of the day asleep in bed) and had a sore throat. This has happened at least 10 times in the last 10 months and is having a massive impact on my life.
I've had 5 GP appointments and two blood tests (the results for which came back completely normal) and the doctors don't know what's wrong. I've now been referred to the hospital but it's going to be months if not years before I get a hospital appointment.
If the repeated periods of dizziness, sleepiness and having a sore throat aren't autism fatigue symptoms, has anyone experienced this for other reasons? I know even medical professionals can't diagnose people online, it would just be great to know if there any other conditions that would be worth me looking into.
Thanks for your help.
NAS94919 said:Does anyone experience periods of dizziness, sleepiness and sore throat as part of their autism fatigue?
I believe these are not uncommon symptoms of burnout.
These are a result of your immune system being supressed by the adrenaline that is being triggered in is state and once you are out of the state the adrenaline reduces and it is hard to diagnose as a physical cause.
There is a good article here which discusses it in detail:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyond-mental-health/202312/what-is-autistic-burnout
The "cure" is to avoid getting to this stage by developing strategies to avoid it building, to reduce the load when you detect it and to understand the causes to and eliminate either the causes themselves or your reaction to them.