Anyone else running on empty?

[Leodrune]

I was, up until recently a very healthy person. I eat really well, consider myself very fit snd I take care of myself.

Or so I thought. In the past week I’ve come down with a very nasty cold that has floored me. It’s not Covid, but it’s nasty. I’ve never been like this before.

I think the past year and a half has caught up with me. I worked throughout the pandemic as a key worker, not NHS, I’m the one everyone calls to offload their Covid angst and I’m just knackered. I feel like I’m running on the fumes in the bottom of my tank.

I’m sitting here avoiding phone calls from people/ relatives who want a listening ear, even though they know I’m sick.

I also reckon my immune system is shot to bits. When they were worried about everyone getting the flu, I can see why now. A weeks change in weather and according to my doctor, this nasty cold bug is ripping through.

Anyone else spent?

good advice re the mask-fitting @HarebrightCedarmoon, and yes @WillYouDoTheFandango there seem to be a lot of us in this boat...time for an un-mumsnetty group-hug I think

Yup I'm done.
Locked overseas, unable to leave my state. 4th and final round of IVF failed, one failed suicide attempt, huge work stress, not taken a break
all year. How I'm still alive is beyond me, DH even more so! Poor guy being stuck with me.

Sorry to hear so many are struggling me also..teen DC, trying to support elderly family members who have recently been bereaved...it all goes on.

Yes, have probably been running on empty for a long time: 2 DC, NHS job with stupidly long shifts, pandemic, depression and anxiety that I never quite got to the point of taking any medication or arranging therapy for (was about to do both) etc etc. Then DH died. Now haven't slept for more than a few hours for nearly 3 weeks, millions of decisions to make, wider family to deal with, the stress of phoning all the companies/ organisations to tell them and rearrange accounts and direct debits, looking after bereaved DC and trying to help them make sense of something that I can't make sense of and don't have any answers for, no idea how it will be possible to go back to work ever and how we will manage financially. I am just putting one foot in front of the other.

@badlydrawnbear

Yes, have probably been running on empty for a long time: 2 DC, NHS job with stupidly long shifts, pandemic, depression and anxiety that I never quite got to the point of taking any medication or arranging therapy for (was about to do both) etc etc. Then DH died. Now haven't slept for more than a few hours for nearly 3 weeks, millions of decisions to make, wider family to deal with, the stress of phoning all the companies/ organisations to tell them and rearrange accounts and direct debits, looking after bereaved DC and trying to help them make sense of something that I can't make sense of and don't have any answers for, no idea how it will be possible to go back to work ever and how we will manage financially. I am just putting one foot in front of the other.

Sorry to hear about your DH

Same. Exactly the same. Every day is like ground hog day...and I see no let up until after Xmas. And there's another thing...bloody Xmas. Where no doubt everything will fall to me to do. Again. In amongst DC, job, managing staff, blah blah blah. Glad it's not just me

Yes me too! Not properly ill, very mild cold, but I'm completely exhausted. I've got a massive coldsore on my lip, my skin is worse than ever and I've woken up this morning to find a massive spot on my arse (sorry probably tmi ).

It's very unusual for me to feel this tired but no amount of sleep seems to make any difference. I'm fed up!

And me.

Two young adult DC struggling mentally so need more support than normal. Ageing parents needing more practical help. Younger child still needs me day-to-day. DH and I stretched to breaking point at work, both ratty, I wake up every day feeling exhausted.

I too have a big birthday coming up and feel like cancelling the small lunch party we were planning because no one, least of all me, feels like celebrating anything.

Really sorry about your DH Badlydrawnbear

So glad I found this thread. Small child at nursery, DH and I both work full time and all of us nearly constantly ill through a mixture of toddler germs and not having been exposed to germs properly over the past 2 years (like everyone).

I'm just exhausted and completely flat despite having a job I really like and want to make a good go of, and objectively so, so much to be thankful for.

DH and I have had to make a really effort to rein in the rattiness and get the simplest things done. We're making progress but it feels like eating through treacle.

I'm another one who is usually very positive and able to find the silver linings in everything. This is probably the closest I've ever been to depression.

Sorry to hear that so many of us are in the same place at the moment. Particular sympathy for those coping with bereavement on top of everything else.

One of the things that is annoying me is the inability to shake myself out of the lethargy and gloom. Logically I can think about everything and count all my blessings. But I just can’t summon enthusiasm any more. I’m just so exhausted and worn out and it doesn’t take much to tip me over into tears.

Taking solace in big mugs of tea, rubbish brain numbing tv, and counting the days until I’ve got a week booked off work.