I don’t feel non-drugged until well after 6 PM. I’m sleeping very well. I even tried caffeine pills and even caffeine doesn’t budge the “just come to under general anesthesia” feeling. I’ve been under before, and that retch-y feeling is the same. People have also noticed that I’m moving slowly. I don’t drink alcohol, so this isn’t a hangover. It started rather gradually but is getting worse.
Someone suggested it could be low b12, but I’ve been having the sublingual spray for months and there’s no improvement.
Am I just getting old and this is something I’m gonna have to put up with for the rest of my life?
Doctor. Go to the doctor. You need to see the doctor. This is not in anyway normal. See the doctor. You need to see the doctor. Go see the doctor. This is a medical issue and you should see the doctor. See the doctor.
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“I’m sleeping very well”
People cant assess themselves for sleep issues, you are asleep, you cant tell whats happening. If you have central apnea you might be ‘waking’ 30 or 60 times per hour and never have a clue its happening. But the side effect is you never get to the recuperative level of sleep the body needs.
The last thing you should be doing is consulting Lemmy.
See a doctor.
See your doctor. This is not normal aging. Getting a Hypothyroid diagnosis can take years if you are one of the people for whom the blood test is garbage. Insist that your doctor get the full T4, T3 testing done. Sleep apnea is also one that can be hard to diagnose but leave you feeling fatigued.
You don’t have a husband or live in partner that might be drugging you? In this day and age, it isn’t as far fetched an idea as it once was.To tag onto the partner drugging you- had ur drinking water changed? Construction nearby or mold growing somewhere? My town water is currently potable but for a little white had too much haloacetic acid. It came under federal guidelines and was considered drinkable but fluctuates with rainfall amount, and fed guidelines are pretty generous anyways and not the best metric.
People have also noticed that I’m moving slowly. I don’t drink alcohol, so this isn’t a hangover. It started rather gradually but is getting worse.
This symptom here is the most concerning. There’s no way doctors are hearing that symptom and telling you everything is fine.
Are you the same user who posted about feeling this way and chalking it up to being over 30 years old and a woman a month ago or so?
- See a doctor
- [If outside of the US] See a physcatrists about why you posted this on Lemmy Instead of seeing a doctor
- [If inside the US] demand Medicare for all
Do you have a carbon monoxide monitor? If not, get one ASAP.
+1, this sounds like a medical issue and not at all typical aging
Keep trying with your doctor, get another doctor if you need to. Doctors, even female doctors, are notorious for dismissing women’s health complaints.
Change doctors as many time as you need. It’s fucked up but one will listen
I’ve had to escort my wife to an embarrassing number of doctor’s appointments just so they’d take her symptoms seriously. Just her symptoms, not even her, the patient! Those are the appointments where I almost always end up impatiently telling the doctor, “don’t tell me, tell her,” or, “don’t ask me, ask her! She’s the patient,” because they’ll try to talk to me the whole time.
Here’s the same thing I tell my wife: blood tests are literally the least a doctor can do while still technically treating you. If your doctor is not putting their hands on you, thinking for more than a few seconds before responding, looking up your symptoms, suggesting specialists, or naming possible treatments to try out, then they’re not really listening to you. If your doctor isn’t listening to you or can’t think of a cause, ask to see a specialist.
/rant
Also, if you trust that your doctor is listening to you and is trying their best, then consider seeing a physical therapist, performing a sleep study, and a neurologist. I’d start with the PT and go somewhere that is cool with doing general assessments rather than requiring doctor’s orders. They might even refer you to a neurologist. Schedule your sleep study and just follow through with that. If your insurance doesn’t cover sleep studies, online CPAP companies will often roll the cost of your sleep study into your CPAP.
Did you have covid? Long covid has made people lethargic and I have some friends who only recently fully recovered.
Either way this is serious issue and you should see a doctor. This is not normal aging.
You need to see a doctor and get blood labs to start figuring this out. I’m an old woman and I can say it’s not just age. If the first doctor dismisses you, they may be suffering from Female Symptoms Dismissal Syndrome and you should try another. Could be anything, including something serious like MS.
Omg go to the fucking doctor?!? No “could be B12 but I’ve been getting supplements” NO. Wtaf are you doing? If it’s not B12 you would know because the doctor checked and your b12 was normal. Wtf are you doing asking the internet?
Do you have to communicate like this?!
32 is way too young for those issues to be normal. Honestly the symptoms you describe sounds like a thyroid issue to me. When’s the last time you saw a doctor and had some bloodwork done?
“Is it normal to feel completely different all the time from how ive felt before”
Ragebait used to be believable. Tinfoil hat says this is a misogyny bot
Women becoming decrepit and old at 30 years is such an unbelievable trope these days.
It could be sleep apnea. It could be allergies (sometimes you acquire them later in life). Could be that aliens are abducting you late at night and taking turns batting your titties around and you have amnesia about it.
I saw replies saying you got a TSH test done. While this is the “gold standard” used for testing thyroid function, it’s easily misleading. TSH levels are somewhat relative and do not tell the whole story. Doctors often label subclinically low TSH as “normal” but you may not feel normal.
The way hypothyroidism is diagnosed is dogshit these days and it’s quite common (1/4 women, more common as you age). If you have only seen an MD and one who is not specialized in endocrinology, I would get a second opinion. My experience is that nurse practioners and DOs are more likely to take this seriously than MDs.
While it’s possible it’s something else, I wouldn’t rule out hypothyroidism strictly from TSH. You can also request a wider thyroid panel that tests free/total T4 and T3, plus thyroid antibodies such as TPO. TSH only tests for the hormone telling your thyroid that your body needs hormones, it does not test for the hormones themselves. Additionally, it does not test for whether you have a thyroid autoimmune disease. This could lead to all your symptoms.
I’ve been through this struggle and known plenty of others who have as well (Hashimoto’s, began in my mid/late twenties). Modern doctors underdiagnose the disease because of they leave it at a TSH test and will often shrug you off with a vitamin D prescription. Go to someone who specializes in this, check your symptoms against those of others and pay particular attention to how they describe how they feel. Trust your intuition about your own body and what feels normal.
Brain fog, body aches, feeling cold all the time, lethargy, waking up feeling like you can never get enough sleep or like your brain is awake but your body isn’t, depression, hair loss, weight gain, poor appetite…these are all signs to look for, but unfortunately are shared with many diseases. You thyroid hormones control so much of your energy and everything surrounding it.
If this ends up being the problem, you can take a simple and cheap thyroid hormone replacement daily and everything will improve. There are natural and synthetic replacements, if you are put on one type and don’t like it, try the other one. Synthetic T4 and T3 or armor thyroid/natural pig thyroid (contains T1-T4).
Good luck and I truly hope you can find how to feel better!
