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This isn't even for mornings. I feel like I need to sleep throughout the day constantly even though I sleep 10 hours each night. I don't even feel buzzed on 400 mg, I just feel about 70% close to normal, or how I felt when I was in my 20's. I literally have been mistaken for a drunk person before and I don't even drink. I don't take caffeine pills often, only when I'm going out with friends so I don't seem like I'm on something and things don't seem like a dream lol

I know this is normal ageing and all, when you're a woman in your thirties but it annoys me how I'm constantly napping when I'm sleeping and not even doing anything. Sometimes you've just got to biohack

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[–] meltycat@lemmy.world -5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[–] GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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).

[–] meltycat@lemmy.world -2 points 37 minutes ago* (last edited 36 minutes ago)

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.

[–] dkppunk@piefed.social 0 points 15 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] meltycat@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago* (last edited 13 minutes ago) (1 children)

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

[–] dkppunk@piefed.social 1 points 7 minutes ago

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.