in being so bloody tired? I am not in my dotage!

[solidgoldbrass]

My job involves walking. Walking is healthy exercise. I have been doing it for over a year, three to five days a week. I shouldn't still feel like a wet fish at the end of a day's drop. Anyone got any tips on how to toughen up a bit?

Bathchair?

Are you tired all the time, or just after work?

Have you had your thyroid function checked?

When I had tiredness that didn't seem to bear any relationship to my activity levels, it was because my levels were low.

Probably nothing to worry about, but it really struck me how doctors just seem to fob off tired women as just being lazy.

What's your diet like? How mentally tiring is it? Some of the most tiring jobs I've had were just not mentally stimulating so I wasn't sleeping properly despite being on my feet constantly.

I hear you athinginyourlife
Yep, is very easily ignored by gp when it comes to those 'lazy complaining women' or 'want it all' types as my gp has me down as.

I hear you athinginyourlife
Yep, is very easily ignored by gp when it comes to those 'lazy complaining women' or 'want it all' types as my gp has me down as.

It's the fag-end of winter. I personally have all the joie de vivre of a limp rag.

Are you walking slowly? I always find that more knackering than a brisk walk. But if you're (say) a postie or a traffic warden I daresay you can't just power along ...

but then my job involves sitting on my arse all day and I still feel like a half-shut knife by the end of it ...

I'm 51. I work full time (at a desk but very very hard and I'm an active, if unsporty person). It isn't the work that tires me out (the menopause contributes I think), but the juggling a home, keeping everything nice, the demands of two teenage children, the shopping, the cooking, the organising. I do about 90 mins before I start work and usually about 90 minutes after work. That's three hours on top of an 8 hour day. Add (45 minutes of walking to and from). Plus busy weekends.

Being a parent is tiring, being a parent and a working woman is exhausting, being an menopausal parent with teenagers is knackering. You really really need the odd hour to yourself, good food, enough sleep and a bit of self worship. , ,

Get your vitamin d levels checked. I was so tired I was living in a fog. 6 weeks on high dose vitamin d I'm like a new woman!

My job involves standing around talking to people - Not exactly taxing - and by going-home-time I usually feel like something left behind when the tide went out ...

At least you're getting fit!

I agree with athinginyourlife, see your Dr.

I had terrible tiredness and put up with it for years.
Eventually went to the Dr, I was having to have a nap every afternon and was only 45 fgs.
Dr did lots of blood tests and it turned out I was anemic. A few months of iron tablets and some tablets to control my heavy periods and I felt like a new woman.

Go and see your GP

Go and see you GP and have your thyroid function checked. I was so tired before they got my thyroid under control that I was falling asleep during afternoon meetings. It has taken over a year to get the right dosis, but now, I am feeling normal again.

I do sleep, when it's bedtime (despite insane stress levels). I eat well, and I woulnd't have thought Vitamin D would be an issue as I'm out in the daylight all the time. I walk for between two and a half and four and a half hours a day - I'm a leaflet distributor, and most of my territory involves hills and steps. But I should be hardened to it by now, I would have thought. Only when I sit down I start feeling totally droopy, and it's hard to put in the hours on the evening copy-editing.
I'll give it another week and if I don't feel back in fighting trim soon I will get checked out.