My DH sleeps so much, and yet is always tired. This isn't a marital problem (it doesn't annoy me or anything like that) and there aren't any kids going unattended, but I'm more wondering if this could somehow be an extreme side of "normal range", or always indicative of a health problem?
He often goes to bed before 9pm, because he's just that tired. It annoys him, as he's worked a full day (office job, not physically tiring) and would quite like to do some more stuff in the evenings. He falls asleep right away in bed, and while he often seems unsettled in the night to me, he's really fast asleep, and nothing wakes him up. Gets up between 7 and 9 am on weekdays and really struggles to get upright and function. (It's a bit unreal to watch. I'm tired in the mornings, too, but I'm not unable to keep my eyes open or to sit up to drink my coffee without constant prompting!) Then gets through the day by drinking about eight cups of coffee.
He wasn't like this in his 20s, although was never a morning person and always liked his sleep. In his early 30s he was put on a longterm medication, which has the initial side effect of making you sleepy, so the increased tiredness seemed only natural. Only it's never really stopped. (He's on a small dose now, and according to his dr, after years on it, it shouldn't have any such effect.)
I dragged him to see a GP about this, and he's had all the appropriate blood tests, which were fine. GP was worried enough to basically ban him from driving, too (luckily he commutes by train anyway), and referred to the sleep clinic, thinking it might be sleep apnea. He's had the home monitors at night to test for it, but they've actually not detected anything at all. According to the monitors he's slept peacefully and has no dips in oxygen levels. He's going to have one more attempt at getting monitored by the sleep clinic, but I understand that's just to completely rule out sleep apnea.
Is this just what his "normal" is now, then, if it's not sleep apnea? He's otherwise generally well and healthy, and no one's mentioned any other health possibilities.