Does anyone else just feel ‘off’??

[Rayi]

Weird feeling, I’ve been like it all afternoon

I feel as if I could sleep for a week. Very heavy and very tired with little motivation to do anything. Still have so much Christmas things to sort and plan.

I’m eating fine and taking supplements inc vitamin D, and getting enough sleep mostly

Armchair diagnose me - what’s the matter? Anyone else feeling this way lately?

I think it's because the good daylight has now well and truly disappeared. Makes you want to hibernate and just sleep the winter away.

I feel like this every winter as we go through December and into January. Then thankfully the days start drawing out again in February and I magically feel my mood/health improve.

Try taking vitamin C and D - they do help.

Started two weeks ago for me. Expected I’d be fine within a couple of days but I’m still really unwell. Stomach aches and associated outcomes, cough which started dry and is now very productive and when I have a coughing fit I sometimes feel as if I’m going to throw up. Rattly chest, massively swollen glands which have forced my tongue to thrust forward and now I’ve got constant toothache too. Sinus pain. Debilitating headaches, earache and sore throat. Spiking temperature. Desperate to turn a corner, it’s slowed me right down and is ruining Christmas prep plans.

I feel like this but I'm getting over an awful virus (NOT COVID I DID TEST FFS), had a hefty week at a new job and don't get time off until the 23rd but am also working 24th and 25th...yet have to do all the shopping, cooking, decorating, present buying etc.

I'm also nearly 40, single, childless, a carer for disabled parents, oh and due my period on Xmas Eve - woop!

Life's just a mess and I'm sinking.