General Chat

Gaynor I had the same symptoms as you and got the same response from my gp
a fasting blood test showed Iwas diabetic and my thyroid was intermittently underactive.
I literally did fall asleep standing up once so I think you should go back to your gp
take care'
Bunny xxx

Gaynor

Go back to GP could be a number of things

I have chromic fatigue so know a bit how you feel isnt nice.

D xxx

And stop drinking the red bull, lol

Gaynor..................you need to see your GP, it is the only way to find out what's wrong and get fit again.

xx

Gaynor, please go and get another blood test, asap. You could be anaemic, or your thyroid might have got a bit worse..or this could be the onset of diabetes. Are you thirsty a lot as well?

I don't know what's up with me at the moment ... I just seem to be so tired lately. Maybe it's the onset of Winter although this has been going on for about 8 or 9 months now.

I get up early in the mornings, usually around 6:30am because although I get so tired, I wake up and just can't get back to sleep, I start to get uncomfortable in bed so I get up. A couple of hours later though I feel like I could sleep for England, but of course by that time I need to go to work and can't go back to bed.

I often sit at my desk at work and I have to really force myself to stay awake, I could just close my eyes and drop off for a while. Sometimes I go and sit in the ladies and lean against the wall and close my eyes for a few minutes but I'm worried that I could actually fall asleep so I can't relax too much.

I come home in the evening and seem to snooze for most of the evening until bedtime (I must be really boring company for my hubby) and then go to bed around 11:00pm.

OH bought some multi vitamins with iron and some caffeine tablets for me which work a little and I take an energy drink to work with me like Red Bull but it's Asda's own make instead, but I get a headache which must be the caffeine... but also I don't think it can be too good for me if I need to rely on these to keep me awake. I still find though that I feel very, very drowsy a few hours after I have taken them, I feel like my eyes have sunken when this happens.

Does anyone else get affected by these sort of symptoms and how do you deal with it?

It really is getting me down now. I had a thyroid test a couple of years ago and the results showed that I was borderline with an under active thyroid, they re tested and it came back the same so my GP wouldn't give me anything for it because it was only borderline, so I don't think it will be that either.

Any ideas how I can get some energy back would be very welcome

Gaynor