I'm just so tired all the time. I have to sleep in the day.

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39 years old. Last bloodtest showed lack of folic acid.

I go to sleep at 10pm. Wake at 7.30/8am.

By midday I need a sleep

I feel like an old lady.

Am trying to shake my diet up. Doing keto. Having omelette, spinach, mushroom etc for lunch. Meat and veg for dinner. Gave up fizzy drinks.

I'm hoping this will make a difference as I just feel like an 80 year old :(

Could you have sleep apnoea?

No, I don't struggle or wake up. I don't snore or anything.

Lack of folic acid will impact energy. You could be anaemic. I felt like you. Shattered, could fall asleep at any time, anywhere. Then I started taking Vitamin D spray, iron/folic herbal supplements (Feroglobin or Floradix both highly effective. Feroglobin is half the price of Floradix) and a B-complex. The tiredness almost vanished within a week. Worth spending on these three supplements (total spend about £20 for 1-3 months supply) to see if it is caused by deficiency. If you don't notice an improvement quite quickly - within a week or two, then it's likely to have another or secondary cause.

Throiyroid issue

need to have a test at doctors find out..

I don’t see how removing the energy in your diet from carbs can help you gain more energy.

Eat a balanced diet and take a folic acid supplement if you are low in that.

You can be affected from low iron levels at a point that is considered ‘normal’. I’d maybe add a supplement. As above, these are good, they have helped my daughter

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Id also add a few nuts and seeds to your diet.

You need full bloods, possibly a two or three times a few months apart. For example, lack of iron can make you anaemic and tired. But too much iron (haemechromatosis - not the right spelling) can also make you tired. If you have the former, iron supplements may help. But if you have the latter, they will make it worse and possible because dangerous. Do not try to self diagnose!

I'm borderline. Not bad enough to medicate I've been told.

Last bloodtest showed lack of folic acid

That is why you are tired. Once your levels are back up you will feel miles better.

@cerisepanther73 op has had a test. It’s in the op.

I live off carbs and feel shit. I don't have a balanced diet at all.

I'm switching to keto as that's the only time I ever feel like I have high energy!

It's hard when you are this tired but exercising can give you energy boosts. I've had similar issues and it's helped me.

What's borderline, as in what was your TSH?

Do you drink alcohol? I felt like you when I did. I also had folate deficiency (because of all the alcohol) and needed a mid-day nap. If you aren't drinking, then I'd sort out the folate deficiency and see how you feel. The fact you are low likely indicates there is something wrong with how your body is absorbing nutrients. For me, besides the drinking, I have a digestive issue that impacts how my body breaks down and processes nutrients in food. Once that was treated, along with giving up the booze, I felt a lot better.

No, I don't touch alcohol. I don't smoke cigs, weed, vape. Nothing.

Speak to your GP and get full bloods including hormones

I'm due a retest now. This was in 23.

I'm the same. Been prescribed folic acid and told that although my thyroid levels are borderline they are technically in range so no further action. I'm tired all the time! I actually have nodules on my thyroid and the dr said I have previously had subclinical hyperthyroidism. I don't see how this can be normal!

Check the NICE guidelines but I’m sure it’s to treat at TSH of 10.

Yeah that's not great, your T4 is pretty awful
I ended up being medicated as my T4 was dropping, think mine was 11 and TSH 7 when they agreed it wasn't right
I wouldn't be surprised if that's why you're tired

Im 41 and feel like this too but work 2 nights a week too. I had a bad flu in January and since I’ve felt awful. I’m shattered all the time. Although I do feel some of mine is start of peri menopause. I feel like an old woman too!

I have Hashimotos hypothyroidism and I felt absolutely awful with a TSH of 4.6, so I’m not at all surprised you’re feeling tired with a TSH of 4.2 (possibly even higher now, given that this blood test is from last year).

I’m now on levothyroxine which has reduced my TSH to 2.1, and am feeling much more energetic and healthy.

The NHS is notoriously terrible at treating thyroid disease. Healthy young and middle aged women should not have TSH levels above 2.5. In fact, my endocrinologist told me that TSH levels over 2.5 are associated with all sorts of pregnancy issues (including miscarriages) as well as birth defects, which really shows you that this is not a healthy level to be at.

Frustratingly, the NHS says that they will not generally treat hypothyroidism until TSH levels go over 10, unless you are trying to get pregnant, in which case they will treat to get your TSH under 2.5. I personally think this is a case of institutional medical sexism - women are left to suffer and feel exhausted, unless there is a potential foetus involved, in which case they prove themselves worthy of treatment.

If I were you, I would really push to get your thyroid treated.

I was vitamin b12 and flic acid anaemic I have to take both for 4 months daily and eat eggs and meat. I thought I was dying. After 3 weeks I feel so much better.

Get a carbon monoxide detector and/or get your boiler serviced.

I live in a house of 6 and it's just me that's this way. We just had a gas service last month.

Thankyou though.