I sleep 10 hours a night but still need to nap constantly during the day. Even 400 mg of caffeine doesn't buzz me, it just makes me feel 70% close to my normal, high energy 20s self. My daytime fatigue is so severe I've been mistaken for being drunk (even though I don't drink), and I experience a dream like brain fog around friends unless I use caffeine pills to seem present.
I know this is part of normal aging for a woman in her 30s, but it's frustrating to constantly need naps when I haven't even done anything. Sometimes you just have to biohack. Still, I feel a bit jealous of how men age differently and seem to keep loads of energy.
Is it?? I’m not saying you don’t lose energy as you age, but what you’re describing sounds closer to a medical problem than the norm. If you’ve had conversations with your doctor and had bloodwork done then it might be normal for you, but if you haven’t checked for vitamin deficiencies you might want to. I felt similarly shit when my vitamin D was through the floor.
It's normal! I've been checked up, I'm not overweight, all my bloods are fine.
Get a second opinion, please. Doctors will often not really believe women when we communicate our symptoms.
I've had a second, third, and fourth opinion. 3 of those doctors were women.
This was me. Turned out I had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I literally passed out during meetings and when driving home. Literally dragging myself out of bed and through the day semi conscious, running on stimulants and grit
I just kept slowly going downhill until one day I had a severe neurological event that I never recovered from, but forced me to address the issue and get it properly looked at
Not saying this is what you have, there's a bunch of things that can cause chronic exhaustion, but this is not normally. Please don't ignore it
Women doctors also disbelieve women patients. It took 4 years and upwards of 20 different doctors for me to get my diagnosis.
Being sleepy to the point of acting drunk is the most concerning that I read from your description. That's really what made me reach out. Just concerned for you!
I've been told I was normal... right up until they decided I was anemic and horribly vitamin D deficient. Now I'm on iron infusions and 50,000mg vit D pills once a week.
My iron and Vitamin D levels are fine. They were checked recently along with various other things.
Have you had a sleep study? Sleep apnea can cause literally everything you're saying. The way you're feeling is not normal or healthy at all. I'm 30, my wife is 29. She's chronically ill with a connective tissue disorder, is constantly in pain, and suffers from fatigue and brain fog and she doesn't even feel like that every day, nor does she get so exhausted she seems drunk
Normal for you I guess, unfortunately, but no-one else.
Drinking warm water in the morning might be a nice start to the day. Also, if you're not consistent with your caffeine, you go through withdrawal symptoms that sound a lot like that.