find out why i'm so tired all the time

i’m allways tired and i don’t do nothing i’ m allways at home

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Yup, a couple years of feeling under the weather, fatigued, sick way too often. Tried all the blood tests, all the other tests, took several weeks off from work, no luck.

The cause ended up being work-related stress and (I suspect) not enough sleep and no good sleeping habits. Meditation alone didn’t help.

Quitting solved the problem in days.

Every now and then, I’ll feel like I did during the worst times. It always hits when I’ve stayed up too late the night before, and didn’t get enough sleep.

Being forty sucks. I used to be able to abuse my body tons more than now and not feel it

I went to the doctor and they drew blood to run some tests and such. Today they called me back to tell me I had a normal thyroid and no anemia. When I asked what I could do, she said that sometimes women, even with normal hemglobin and such, find they have more energy when they take one iron supplement a day. Other than that, I need to change my lifestyle-diet, exercise, stress management, quality of sleep- and that should fix it. I can believe that my lifestyle could be a contributor to my lack of energy, and I feel I can manage to fix that, but I don’t think that’s the full picture. I sleep all the time, and even after a full night’s sleep I am ready to sleep again. But the doctor said there is no more testing to be done. so I guess that’s it. I am lethargic and that is that.

Over the past few years I have found myself being more tired. But in this last year it has gotten worse. I find myself crawling into bed for nap 2 hours after I wake up from a full 8 hours of sleep. I used to sleep straight through the night like a rock; now it is normal for me to wake up multiple times. I remember when I was younger I used to snore, but I don’t do it anymore. Sometimes I feel down, but I don’t know if I am tired because I feel down, or I feel down because I am so tired and can’t seem to get anything done (most likely the latter). I have been meaning to get to the doctor to get checked out, but I just haven’t had the chance yet. Hopefully I will get there soon…unless I sleep through that, too!

the number one, crippling symptom of Multiple Sclerosis.

It would have been easy for me to say “ah, I’m just not sleeping well/doing too much” etc.

But a trip to the Neurologist proved I was right.
I wish I’d been wrong.
Still, I marked this “worth doing” because at least now I know.

If you’re having vague symptoms, please see a neurologist and have him/her rule out a diagnosis of MS.

Turns out it was just good old fashioned grad school sleep deprivation.

I was always tired, my entire life, and I thought it was just because I was always so busy, working and going to school and burning the candle at both ends. But when I stopped, I was still tired! The worst part was getting up in the morning. It took several alarm clocks placed strategically around the room to get me out of bed. Even then, I had to change them every so often or I would start shutting them off in my sleep! When I finally got sent in for a sleep study, they found that my sleep latency (the amount of time it takes to fall asleep) was 2.3 minutes, and of the 5 naps I took while I was there, I entered REM sleep on two of them, within 15 minutes! So now I take medication and it really helps. I feel like a normal person! I know there are so many things that can cause tiredness and lethargy, but if you are sleepy all the time and fall asleep in random places, even when you get enough sleep at night, you should definitely talk to your doctor about a sleep study.

I’ve been like reallly reallllly tired during the last weeks. First, i had my exams, and that was exhausting, the exam revision, the stress…
Then, i got the infection, and i guess that the body gets tired for fighting the infection etc…
And now, after the surgery and the general anaesthesia, i’m still tired, but some french scientists found that there’s some kind of jet-lag effect after a long anaesthesia, because it’s as if some time had been stolen, and it changes the biological rhythm…

I’m 23 yr old and I’ve been tired MY whole life. I’ve been to doctors and have been on CPAP. The sleep apnea is ruining my life.My head usually hurts just about every day and I can’t seem to get anything done. Its hard for me to remember things and I’m too tired to work on project that take any sort of investment of time. I haven’t been able to finish college and barely made it through highschool. I feel as though every day I’m barely moving just to get by.

I’m not really over weight since I’m 5’ 11” and 205 lbs. I have to find out why I’m still so tired all the time. I read my cpap machine (since I’m fairly good with computers and have the software to do so). I’ve tried over the past three years since I started CPAP to let it auto range and use set pressures as well as a bipap machine. Though these ideas didn’t work. I’ve tried just about every sane idea that might reasonably help my situation but it hasn’t worked yet. I think if I was to completely get rid of my sleep apnea I would feel alot better. Though this is difficult to do if not impossible.

I’m going to try an incline snore pillow and see if it works. perhaps it will open my airway more and reduce the remaining apneas that I have. Thus allowing me to finially get a good nights sleep. The only down side to this pillow that I found online is that its very expensive and may not even work. 143 dollars..!!

I’m not going to give up… since I don’t have a choice. I believe sleep apnea killed my father. He died a few months ago and its been hard not to think that this might do the same to me eventually.