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.
As an older woman, this is not normal. Please see a doctor!!
I have an autoimmune disease that comes with chronic fatigue. I understand the struggles. This is far beyond normal.
It's normal. I've had every blood and hormone test under the sun and they've come back normal. Seen lots of doctors including female ones. I'm not going to waste their time any further it's just one of those things you have to get on with as an older woman I'm not in my prime anymore.
These symptoms aren't normal. Stop trying to project that on the literal billions of women who have also reached the age of 30. The overwhelming majority of them are not experiencing what you're describing.
I have been extensively tested and everything came back normal. I get that people like to be in denial about ageing, but at least in my case, it's related to my age. It started slowly, when I was approaching my 30's.
You can claim all you want that the test results are normal; I'm not arguing that.
The symptoms you describe are not normal. Not for women in their 30's, 40's, 50's, or past that.
Being sleepy to the point of acting drunk is not a normal older woman thing. It simply isn't. I'm sorry.
Also jesus christ. Early 30s IS your prime. Or at least not so far from your prime that you should be resigned to feeling this way forever.
LOL 30's is not older woman. Girl get help. Like honestly. Everyone here is telling you that you aren't normal and you are either lying to yourself or delusional (oh, it's both).
https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/geriatric-pregnancy
At or after the age of 35, a woman getting pregnant is clinically considered a geriatric pregnancy. I'm not yet considered geriatric in the medical world, but I'm not in my prime anymore, and that's okay.
You won’t be considered geriatric for about forty years. You might have a geriatric pregnancy, but that’s just the terminology. Like how an eighty year old can have juvenile diabetes, it doesn’t mean they’re a juvenile.
You probably haven’t yet reached your mental prime yet, but yes, you might be at a disadvantage sprinting against a 22 year old at the same activity level. That’s only really relevant at the highest levels of athletics though, and you can still be healthier than you were in your twenties.
I’m older than you are, and my sisters are more than a decade older than you are and none of us is experiencing this. None of our doctors (in three very different areas) prepared us for this. If it were normal, even if we didn’t personally experience it, wouldn’t our doctors warn us about it? All of the women in this thread are telling you that they didn’t have anything like this, isn’t that something to consider?
You might not have anything that is showing up on a test you’ve had done so far, but isn’t it worth looking further into whether you could have normal energy levels?
Even if they don’t find anything wrong, making your doctor understand that you’re not experiencing a normal level of fatigue might let them help you. I had a carpool buddy with idiopathic narcolepsy, which just means they don’t know what causes it. He was prescribed stimulants and worked with his doctor to figure out lifestyle adjustments that helped (like carpooling, so he could drive while alert in the morning, but didn’t endanger himself in the afternoon. He’s the only person I’ve ever seen be so tired that he sounded drunk while sober after a full night of sleep.
Yeah, I’m with Velma here. This is absolutely not normal for women in our 30s. I’m older than you and it sounds like I have a lot more energy than you.
I’m 42 and sleep 9pm-4am, drink a cup of coffee in the morning, one more just after lunch (because I love coffee), and I never need a nap. Even on days that I’m highly active, no naps. When my partner didn’t realize he was brewing decaf for a week, I didn’t get abnormally tired, just minor caffeine withdrawals. I honestly don’t think I’ve taken a nap since my late 20s when I was working overnight shifts.
Maybe consider a device that monitors your sleep. I do have some restless nights and my Apple Watch catches it. Usually I just take a melatonin the next night and I sleep like a baby.
I have a fitbit and it says my sleep's fine. No abnormal oxygen variations.
Also it's possible you age slower than most women. Not all old men are as lucid as David Attenborough, for example.
And women are clinically considered to be geriatric at 35 or older. I'm 31, so I'm not in my prime anymore. https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/geriatric-pregnancy
Get a real sleep study done, not just your boyfriend watching you. It has nothing to do with aging slower, but if you are so tired you get mistaken for drunk after a full nights sleep, there is absolutely something going on that you need to look into.
You can have all the normal blood tests in the world and that doesn’t mean there isn’t something wrong. It took a couple years of blood tests and scans coming out normal for doctors to find out it was cancer causing my dad’s skin rashes, they only found it because of a chest x-ray for something entirely unrelated.
The pregnancy was called geriatric, not the woman. What you describe is not normal. Every women over 60 I personally know, sleeps less and is less tired than you seem to be. You may not be infected with something, but this is not normal, and if you are annoyed by it, you should do something about it.
For pregnancy It says it right in your link.
Yes, as in, a geriatric woman being pregnant. It's risky having children at or past that age, because a woman's DNA has took a beating from ageing.
This is untrue.
Looking at your other posts, you seriously need to see a doctor. Something is wrong.
Everything's normal! I've seen multiple doctors and had every blood, vitamin, and hormone test under the sun, and then some. Everything comes back normal. I'm just not in my prime
You're acting drunk, mispronouncing your words enough that you have to text and can't speak properly, and need constant naps.
Come on now. I know it sucks to push doctors for answers, I know it sucks to have to stop and take care of your health, but this is serious.
I really don’t believe this is actually a woman and I fucking hate saying that. There is too much “not in my prime anymore”. Like every single comment has that, it so reads as a guy making fun of women getting older.
Nah there's no way this is a woman and I also hate saying that. No woman is seriously pushing that our DNA degrades so much in our 30s that we're literally geriatric.
100% agree. They gave the game away in the last few comments.
Gross trolls are gross
You'd think these types would get tired of the same jokes over and over again.
Women being ancient at 30 years old? Please, it's not even clever!
The entire account is gross. I reported the post under this rule:
Be civil: No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour
I pointed out the comments calling women over 35 are offensive and the entire account feels like a troll.
Thank you, I reported the post and a couple comments for the same.
I’m just going to shake my head, go back to work, finish the day, then have a drink.
Have a good one Velma and I’ll catch you somewhere else later 💚
Haha same here and you too :)
I've seen multiple doctors for years. This is just something I need to get on with. Every blood test came back normal. And, like the meme I posted suggests, caffeine does wonders.