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Is this it now?

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toomuchtooold · 02/04/2019 22:16

Light-hearted - you honestly don't need to diagnose me, I'm most probably fine, but -

These last few weeks I can't stay awake till bedtime. I keep falling asleep watching the telly at about 9 o'clock. I've always been a bit of a night owl so it feels very strange. But I'm totally knackered. DH tore the ligament in his knee about 8 weeks ago, he was on crutches for about a month, then in for surgery, now back on crutches so he needs help with stuff and can't do much around the house. Also DD1 got scarlet fever/strep throat when he originally did the injury, then DD2 just got it just now, and in the middle I've had some hideous virus and now onto a second cold. I feel like we can't catch a break at all. I have a tendency to pick up chest infections due to childhood illness, and a couple of years ago when DH and I were not working extremely long hours I got ill with a chest infection that just wouldn't clear and I decided to pack in my work and go back to being a SAHM, and I know that with kids in school I have a lighter load than a lot of people but I am just so bloody tired. My periods are also starting to play silly buggers, I'm 43, is this what it's like being 43? Anyone else feel the same? I feel like I've been tired for about the last decade.

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Palominoo · 02/04/2019 22:17

You might be lacking in Magnesium or iron.

Have you had a blood test?

BeautyQueenFromMars · 03/04/2019 09:18

Go to the gp and ask to have your thyroid and vitamin D levels tested. I felt exactly the same, and discovered I had an underactive thyroid and very low vit D. Six weeks and some medication later, I am feeling much better.

birdling · 03/04/2019 09:20

Take a pregnancy test, just in case.

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