A brief history - I am obese 18 stone. Before covid I was 22 stone. I have been very fortunate that I have never had any health problems due to my weight. I am 37. I have a job that I love and I enjoy going to. It’s not stressful at all. I only have a 30 minute commute each way. I eat healthy and drink 2 litres of water a day. I don’t drink alcohol or smoke. I hit my 3 rings on my Apple Watch each day and I stick to my calories. I do on average about 12k steps a day. My weight is coming off slowly. My children are late teens so I don’t have the stress of working and trying to manage home/childcare. Everyone at home helps out. I have no stress at all. I spend at least an hour on self care - yoga/meditation/journaling. I do have anxiety and have been on medication for 4 years.
Since January I have felt like crap. Getting up for work takes everything I have. At work is fine. I’m active, happy and have no complaints with how I’m feeling. When I finish work I feel like I have nothing left to give. I struggle to cook dinner or do anything. I go to bed about 10ish and my head hits the pillow. About 5am I wake everyday with a hacking cough. I have no cough throughout the day at all.
Weekends are awful. I wake up naturally about 7 and feel like I have been in a boxing ring. Every bone hurts and my head feels heavy and fuzzy. I get up and hurt so much I make it to the sofa. I then go back to sleep. Today I slept on the sofa until 6.30pm! Everyone is living their lives and I just sleep. I struggle to even lift my kindle to read. It’s 9.30 and I’m back in bed already as I can hardly lift my head to keep my eyes open.
My Dh is very concerned and I took two weeks leave at Easter as he was concerned it was work. I struggled to even get in the shower most days in that fortnight. Everything just ached.
I don’t understand why I’m okay at work. Is it because I have to do it? I can 100% say my job isn’t too much or stressful. When I leave work I don’t think about it until I go in the next day.
I have called the doctors and I can’t get seen. It’s not classed as an emergency and there are no appointments or telephone consultations to be had. Today I cried about it. Everything is open up, the weather is glorious and I just sleep. I just wanted to plant some flowers in the garden.
I have had my first dose of vaccine- Pfizer 7 weeks ago. I have been feeling like this a lot longer so it’s not linked. I haven’t had covid and due to my job I take a lateral flow test twice a week which is always negative.
I know this isn’t a medical forum but does anyone have any ideas of what could be wrong?