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Welcome Chippie Seems like you've been through it, but retained your sense of humour and perspective. You'll find both these invaluable in the coming months and years. The most difficult thing I've found (same age so might be relevant...) is not to beat yourself up when you have to scale back on what you would consider to be normal things because of exhaustion. The very best of luck on your new journey, I look forward to your updates..

The comments are so very true. I myself feel as you do some days, so very tired and feel very low.Other days feel not so bad. l now become very dizzy when stooping l also feel physically sick.

I second that comment Teechur. I also feel that life is too precious to waste on those wasteful pursuits. Then again I might forget all this and go back to the bad old me. Hope not.

It's been 2.5 years for me and I am actually a lot calmer than I used to be because anger and stress feel like such a waste of precious time and emotion. I do still have daily headaches and am in treatment for them. Fortunately not everyone gets those, although I know of three people who were and are extremely active (like me) and deal with them too. I have minor memory issues. Fatigue, for me, does not come from overdoing it physically, but on a bad head day just having to think and work as a teacher can exhaust me.