Am I going mad? Or is there something wrong?

[babyfedleaning]

Am beginning to wonder if I should go to the doctor as I keep doing stupid things. But I am also mum to two boys aged 3 and 8 months and wonder if it's just tiredness. I can't quite put my finger on it but just recently I have been a lot clumsier, things like dropping clothes pegs when hanging up the washing, tripping over. I have had scratchier eyes, headaches and a bit of blurred vision lately so at the weekend I went to the optician to see if I needed a new prescription. I read the eye test chart as normal - except it wasn't normal because I read each line from right to left and didn't even notice I was doing it. It was only when the optician turned round to check the chart and see what it was I was reading that I realised. I felt so shocked! I always read left to right. Tonight I was labelling an envelope and stuck the stamp in the corner. And again realised after I had done it that I'd stuck it in the left hand corner. It sounds ridiculous but it has proper freaked me out. I just wondered if anyone else had experienced this and could reassure me.

[DoristheCamel]

I had similar abd other symptoms for about 9 months when I was eventually diagnosed with low iron and ferritin. Extremely low.

It coukd be this or it could be a whole host of other things. Make an appointment with your gp and ask for full bloods to try and get to the bottom of this.