Utterly exhausted.
Is it possible that past lack of sleep is catching up with me? that is what it feels like. Can lack of iron in pg and then breastfeeding catch up with me even though i stopped bf'ing 3 months ago, and eat well (most of the time?) and even though I had HG in pg, and did not have low iron (it stayed good all the way through)
My DS is 19 months old and now sleeps through (mostly). I sleep well most of the time, have nights when I wake up a lot, and no matter what time I go to bed, or wake up in the night if the kids need me, I wake at 6am or so, and then doze.
But, recently, I have been almost unconscious, rather than sleeping, that is how it is feeling. I hardly move in my sleep I am so tired.
It does come and go and I have days when I am ok in the daytime, just hits me at about 7pm. I am in bed by 9pm latest, on good days. I rarely stay up as I struggle to keep my eyes open.
And today, I struggled to get up, i struggled to wake up. And I had to get up for work, and even as I lay there knowing I was going to be late, I just dozed off again. My head and my body just refused to move.
I have been tired all day, like proper yawning and sleepy tears. I am normally fine, even after a bad nights sleep, in the day time, plenty of energy just slow down earlier. But not at the moment.
I have spent all afternoon struggling to get off the sofa after work, forced myself, and while i was moving about, my eyelids just wanted to shut, I have had tears streaming down my face from feeling exhausted, my bones feel weary.
And now, I feel so tired, I am almost past tired, if that makes sense. I actually feel a bit hot and have a headache I feel so tired. I feel quite tearful, have not had tea and no energy to cook it. I am going to bed soon and i know I will be asleep in minutes.
Why on earth am I feeling like this? It started when I started running about 2 months ago? but i have not been running for a while so it is not that. I eat well, most of the time. I am drinking more water than I used to. It started before the weather became hot but on and off and currently it is worse than ever. I am drinking less coffee, but not suddenly, so not caffiene withdrawal and don't think i drink too much either. I drink alcohol about averagely, 3-5 glasses a week. I smoke rarely, around 1-7 rollies a week (normally with wine). I am relatively fit and healthy so what is going on?
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I am so tired I could cry.
Pavlovthecat · 04/07/2011 19:46
mama - ah, you just made me think of something. I do get hot in the evening. I have been suffering from swollen feet recently, and the other extreme of bad circulation in my feet - i looked down the other day to see them looking blue! 
but colour returned to normal after I wiggled them and moved feet/bent toes.
But with all that, I also remember - i had the contraceptive implant in about 3 months ago...i am going to look up side effects...
I actually feel more physically tired now than when DS was at his worse sleep wise. It was weird as my body found a way to cope with that, it took its toll on my skin and my mood and I sacrificed a lot to get sleep whenever I could, but I never felt drop down tired. Right now I am forcing myself to type as I want some ideas of why, and I am refusing to go to sleep at 8pm, but earlier, 3pm in fact, I actually dozed off like I do in boring meetings at work, when pasta was cooking for kids tea!
Well I have sarcoidosis. First Symptoms were swollen ankles and feet, pain in joints and complete exhaustion. I am not a doctor but just saying. My feet were so swollen I could barely walk. It's more common to lose weight though, u lose your appetite with it. Coughing, chest pain or trouble breathing are other symptoms. It's quite common in women 
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i just looked up side effects of nexplanon [sigh]
common (not very common) side effects include Fatigue and weight gain
rare (not very rare) side effects include sleepiness, hot flushes and achey muscles.
All info suggests seeing GP if any side effects are present, and get blood pressure checked.
I have no time and am too tired anyway 
, off to google sarcoidosis too! then bed for a sleep
Oh yes that gets trotted out everytime here too. Good enough they do do the blood form.
The only advantage to all this is thar work keep commenting on how pale and tired i look ~Im sure i got an extra break last week because of it. The trouble was i was that tired i couldnt fully enjoy it.
You might want to consider Coeliac disease. After my son I was like you, so tired I could cry (often did) and there came a point when I knew it wasn;t the tiredness of being a new mum.
A got a blood test which showed postive for whatever the markers are for CD, and then an endoscopy. Within 2 weeks of going gluten free, I could nto believe hoe much energy I had it was amazing.
That has changed now and I am much more tired lately, but that's probably my crappy lifestyle.
Worth checking, but if you want to get tested for CD, don;t go Gluten free until you've had the tests as you start to get better very soon (although it can take many months to revcover) so you still want to be eating the pasta and bread until the doc says otherwise
Sorry, meant to add, I hope you get some rest tonight, I know that a good sleep does not guarantee you will not have fatique.
Oh, there is always chronic fatique syndrome too. there is always something to worry ourselves silly with when googling out symptoms
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