It sounds like you should have some blood drawn, Marie. It is possible that your blood levels of hormone have dropped enough that you could be needing replacement hormone. I’d recommend checking with your doctor, even if it isn’t quite “time” yet according to his/her schedule.
We all respond differently to these changes in blood hormone levels, so what is best for YOU to do right now may be different from what I experienced. There was no way I could do the amount of exercise you mentioned when I was hyper, for example. My muscles would not sustain the effort, and it took days for them to recover from even mild exertion. When my blood levels of hormone dropped too low, on the other hand, I didn’t much feel like doing anything: I could sleep at the drop of a hat, and was very lethargic. But if I MADE myself get active, I found that I actually felt better, more energized afterward. I guess what I’m trying to suggest is that you continually test the situation out. And don’t necessarily go by either how you think you feel before the activity, or by how much exercise you think you SHOULD be able to do, based on past experience. Until things get “right” again, and settled in, there can be a fairly continous process of adjusting to what is appropriate NOW, what makes you feel better now, and not worse.
Bobbi
