Advice please

[Vicky1110]

Hello,

Posting here for traffic, sorry.

So, I'm just looking for some advice or anyone who has had a similar thing - I went to the doctor's about 10months ago regarding this and was told I'm getting old (I'm 30) and I have young kids so it's expected.

Basically, I am always exhausted. Not just general tiredness, but run down with no energy. I get plenty of sleep and I sleep well most nights, go to bed 9/10ish and get up 7ish (my kids only wake in the night if they're poorly). I always wake up and feel like I haven't slept at all, I often feel like I'm getting a heavy cold but then it never develops. I can do the school runs fine in a day and a couple of household chores but anything over this (e.g. a trip to the supermarket or some extra household chores - it feels like I only have a limited energy supply and my battery seems to drain alot faster than other people) and they next day or two I will basically spend in bed sleeping (although it feels like the sleep makes no difference), and then after a day or two I'm back to normal - well my version of normal, still being exhausted but not so exhausted I can't get up. My memory is also shot to pieces, when it used to be really good (like people would actually comment on how good my memory was) but now I can't remember why I'm pouring a glass of water half the time. I'm also sore/achey muscles alot, like I'll wake up and ache even though I've done nothing strenuous.

I am slightly overweight, but I do eat well (all the green stuff), I take vitamins. I have always been fit, I don't tire easily through exercise (as in it doesn't make me huff and puff going upstairs or for a walk). About 6 months ago I was doing a 30min hiit session 5 days a week with no trouble, but now that would knock me out for a couple of days.

Any advice or experience with this would be welcome! I don't feel I can go back to the doctors because they just brushed it off as being old with kids. Tia x

Go back to the GP. If you are getting plenty of sleep and you’re only 30 this isn’t normal.

Get your thyroid checked. Google hypothyroidism. Also, while getting the blood test for thyroid get Vit D, all iron related & B12. So dismissive of the gp. I know it's hard when you feel like this but please do push for these tests. (Get copies of all results too).

@3girlsmama I had a full lab run last time and everything was in the normal range, like in the middle not even on the low or high side. (I have access on the NHS app to all my results, present and historic. I think that's why they just said you're getting old, it's life.

@Duracellbunnywannabe that's what I thought, but they didn't seem to think it was out of the blue or have any other explanation to offer 🤷

If a GP was doing what they get paid handsomely for, they would.have ordered blood tests to see what was going on. Getting old at 30? I had 3 young children at that age and bags of energy (knackering though it was!!)
Definitely go back and tell them nothing has changed and you are not happy with the "diagnosis"

Why have you posted this twice? Wasn't the advice on your other thread good enough?

@BIWI as stated at the top of this post I posted here for traffic because on the original post it just seemed to be going down the list with no responses. I posted it here before anyone responded on the other post. And I value all of the advice on both threads.

I wonder if you were fobbed off because it was around the time there were blood collection vessel shortages. But I would definitely go back, speak to a different doctor and explain the dramatic difference.

You may just be anaemic.