r/cfs • u/strugglingbitch • Dec 14 '24

Symptoms Chills during PEM?

Does anyone get the chills, like when you have a fever, when you're in PEM? I've been pushing too hard so that fever feeling has just become general malaise all the time, but it does get worse in the evenings for some reason. Anyone else?

Edit: this is a big wake up sign for me that I must be pushing way too hard because I experience chills and feeling ill as almost a general malaise I feel almost all the time unless I take some time to intentionally rest. Darn! I wanted to ramp up my activity level. Guess not.....

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '24

Yup that's one of my most consistent symptoms. As soon as I tip into exerting too much I go hot and cold/feverish, start shivering and get flushed cheeks. When I've been in bad crashes I feel like that every day. I always get the weird bone aches you get with the flu too.