Extreme tiredness

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Can anyone give any insight into my extreme tiredness?

I've been tired a lot for quite a while. This last couple of weeks, however, I am absolutely shattered.
I feel really strange...like I can barely move my arms and legs.

I am booked into the doctor's in a week's time, but I was just wondering if anyone has ever experienced this.

It sounds so trivial- I'm only tired- but I can barely function. I have a full time job and kids so I'm getting on with it because there's no choice, but I'm wondering how much longer I can keep plodding.

For full context- I have a DH who absolutely does his bit, and my kids are not tiny, so I shouldn't really be this exhausted.

I'm literally dizzy with the effort of typing this

Anaemia? I was tired and told the doctor the pavement looked comfortable to sleep on. She did face and bloods and I had really low iron stores

B12 and Vit d deficiency also.

Glandular fever?

Folate or B12 deficiency....breathlessness is a frequent symptom of low Hb/iron & you don't mention that. Folate deficiency made me think I had early onset dementia. Forgot words for things, forgot what I was talking about mid sentence. Felt like I was walking through sand. By 4pm I could barely function....after a week on Folic Acid I felt way better.

I had low iron in my last pregnancy (low enough to need an infusion) and I didn't feel this bad.

Do you think I need to try to get in to the doctor sooner? I suppose I just need to see if it gets worse.

I have a bit of breathlessness actually. I was putting it down to anxiety. I occasionally have panic attacks which often start with shallow breathing. I have to add, though, that this definitely feels physical rather than anxiety related.

Interesting about the brain fog....I was putting that down to the tiredness, instead of counting it as a separate symptom, iyswim.

Could be vitamin d deficiency. I went to the GP at the end of last year with exhaustion and not coping at work. She did some blood tests and it turned out that I was very low in vitamin d.
Having said that, the treatment was 8 weeks of very high dose vitamin d, and I am still so tired I could cry most days 😟 So I don't know what else might be wrong with me.

Been to the doctors this week with this. Diagnosed with low vit b12. Changed my diet and bought multivitamins. Doctor said if no improvement in 3 months i can have b12 injections.

How old are you? Could be perimenopause?

Pregnant?

Vitamin D or B12 deficiency maybe? I recently experienced similar and my bloods flagged this up. I was quite shocked at how terrible I felt over something that has been fixed with supplements from my GP. Hopefully blood tests will find a cause for you.

Get your thyroid function checked. T4, TSH, T3free.

All of that but also ME/CFS.

Youwint know until you have gone to see your GO and had some blood test done.

Perimenopause , iron deficiency or thyroid - wild guess though (based on personal experience of all of the above giving me all of the above - am not medically trained!), but you really should get it checked out sooner if you can.

Sounds like me when I had anemia. I was so tired I could hardly function and I got breathless walking up stairs despite being fit

I felt like this and had glandular fever and extreme anaemia - quite the combo. If I were in your shoes I think I’d be trying out of hours rather than waiting a week - then if it is anaemia (or another deficiency) they can start treating it right away.