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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.
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.
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.