To ask - Is anyone NOT tired?

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I'm exhausted! I don't know how I'm still alive.

I'm so tired i don't even know what I did today, I'll also be tired tomorrow.

I once went on holiday by myself and floated on a lilo for a week. I did nothing but float and read.

Nuffaluff

It's funny your cutting down drinking has helped, I'm thinking of upping my drinking to a few pints a week... Of youthful virgins blood.. may as well embrace my new vampiric state.

January is one of the worst months for tiredness. Make sure you get enough daylight - catch the sun when you can, even the winter sun. Science increasingly shows the importance of sunlight in our immune system - a recent report I read said that low levels of sunlight were linked to contracting MS.

I am tired. Have 2 kids that are not natural sleepers. Eldest is nearly 4 so don't think I have had a full or great nights sleep since I was pregnant with her. The youngest is a worse sleeper.
Although someone I know sent me a link about concentrated cherry juice to help with sleep and her youngest has slept though a couple of times since taking it and it's been less than a week. So giving it a go. Also read that magnesium helps with better sleep. So there are things to help of they work and also agree what some have said about good diet and vitamins etc helping. Just hard to exercise and eat well when you have no spare time to yourself!! And get woken every night and don't have the energy. I am working on it...

I'm not that tired. I sleep a lot. I often jump into bed at the earliest opportunity.

I'm not sure whether I'm actually tired or just tired of endless nonsense at work.

Roll on half term...

I AM tired but I've always been like this. Having kids has made it a bit worse.

I could quite easily spend a week in bed with lots of tv, books, sleep and food.

I wouldn't get bored I'd love it.

Vitamin D. Truly it works so well. This time of year I struggle if I forget to take them.

With them I'm superwoman. It makes me feel energised and I'm not tired.

I spent 4 decades being tired and under the weather before a chance conversation, and a resulting blood test confirmed diabolically low levels.

I am always exhausted. I think my job is to blame. No chance of getting out at lunch for some daylight. My work room is dark too. Then because I do work at home in the evening, I end up staying awake to 11.30, so that i can have some down time.

I used to feel tired all of the time. I stopped tea/coffee & alcohol since the beginning of January. All the water I'm drinking makes me feel great, I'm never tired now.

Hmm just wondering whether I should have offered sex to the Greek takeaway guy. On balance, no. Too much effort.

I find a good multi vitamin and b vitamin supplement helps, and going to bed earlier and not pissing about on the Internet, but easier said than done.

I'd like a big garden chair swing or a nice recliner in the shade by the pool though if you're taking requests.

I'm not tired as such, I sleep ok generally and no DCs but I never ever wake up feeling refreshed no matter how much sleep I've had. I can remember being in my twenties and feeling totally fresh and energised after a long sleep, now every morning I wake up feeling groggy and sort of stunned. Is it just getting older?

I'm not tired these days, but then ds is 15 and I no longer have an ill husband to care for, also my parents and in laws aren't too decrepit yet. After bereavement I dropped to part time hours and it is completely awesome. I sleep so deeply compared to when I used to share a bedroom. Never again.

Last summer I had a foot operation that necessitated sitting in the garden with my feet up and a book for five weeks, unable to go to work OR do housework and as soon as I recovered, I went on an all-inclusive holiday in a glorious Greek paradise. It was amazing, but six weeks didn’t come close to paying back the sleep debt I have accrued since DS2 was born nearly five years ago. I thought I would it would reset me, but here I am half a year later as bone-crushingly exhausted as ever. I’ve had blood tests and everything is normal but when I got home on Wednesday night, even though DH had made dinner in the slow cooker and all I had to do was serve it out, that seemed like a mammoth task and I would have cried at the prospect except I was too tired to cry.

I need, desperately need, to change my job as I know this fatigue comes from stress. I could get all the sleep and take all the supplements in the world, but I will still be exhausted whilst I’m in this career. I have constant brain fog; I forgot my own hospital appointment last week. I regularly construct fantasises around illness/injury that doesn’t cause me any serious harm but gives me time off to recuperate again. When I read threads full of people saying they’d carry on working after a lottery win to fill their days, I am incredulous. If I could afford to, I would quit work in a heartbeat and spend at least a year swimming, sleeping, reading and writing. At the end of that, I might finally have the energy I think someone in their mid-30s should have instead of feeling like I’m about a hundred years old all the time.

I thought I was tired before having a child. Now I have one that doesn’t go for more than a few hours without waking up, I haven’t slept properly for over two years.

I used to be an 8 hour min person.

Been ill since beg of Dec with various illnesses, flu, infections now vomiting bug.

Am sure being tired all the time has contributed to it.

Trying not to murder my OH when his response is that he’s tired too (which is true, but I’m too tired to hear it).

I’ve got fibromyalgia but even by my standards I’m tired. Have had nine separate courses of antibiotics for various respiratory infections since end of Oct. Am now on a phased return to work and despite only doing half days in my part time job at the moment am shagged. The 2yo and 4yo are also running me ragged. Thank God for my DH. But a nice floating and reading holiday is the dream.

We are going to need a bigger lilo...

Can I join the tired, lilo camp? Oh, to lay on a lilo and read and be brought food!!!! Maybe it is just vitamin D? Although I do need more sleep too. And probably to drink less 🍷.

LaurieFairieCake do you mind saying which vitamins you take? Is it a multivitamin or different ones?

I’m worried I might fall asleep on the lilo and fall into the pool, so I’ll be on a sun lounger poolside while you lot are floating on the lilos.

I’m shattered. There aren’t enough hours in the day if I want to have a decent length sleep, exercise twice a week, keep on top of housework (DH does most of the housework but I need to keep on top of it while he’s away through the week), keep on top of the laundry, sort the kids and have a bath/shower. I did a little experiment actually the other week, banned myself from going on my phone and didn’t go to bed until all my jobs, housework, online food shop etc, exercise, shower etc etc was done, and every night for 4 nights I didn’t get to bed until 11pm - 12.40pm. Which gave me approx. 5-5.5 hours sleep per night as baby wakes once a night at the mo. There was no TV, reading or me time on those evenings either!!

Used to be perpetually exhausted and always ill. Has improved since I cut back on alcohol, improved diet, a few very early nights midweek say 9.30pm. But mainly since I started macca root powder supplements. Really has made a difference and improved my mental health too, less ups and downs I feel a lot more stable and happy

I'm taking sanatogen A-Z it says its got 100% rda of vit d, the Bs and iron. Isn't that enough?

This thread is my home! I truly can’t remember ever not being tired.

I think my job is at the root of it but I need to earn money so can’t see how to get round it.

My DCs have always been good sleepers and DH does loads around the house so I am luckier than some, but I am still..... so ........tired......

I normally feel so tired, but I am managing to get to the end of the day recently before falling into bed tired. I've been having a lot of toast and Marmite, which might be helping.

thighofrelief101 it might not be - get your levels tested.

Vit d is notoriously hard to absorb and you may need the suspension in oil and 'megadosing' to get it back on track. Taking 100% rda doesn't mean you are absorbing enough, especially if your levels were on the low side to begin with

I took a multivitamin for years but my vit d level was 12 - it is now recommended to have your level over 50, and anything up to 150 can only benefit you further

see 'defend your life' available on amazon

www.amazon.co.uk/Defend-Your-Life-Inexpensive-Improving/dp/0984572007/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=defend+your+life&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1547765834&sr=8-1

even with gp led megadosing it took a year to get my level over 50

b12 I've been working on more recently but seems despite the multivitamin it's still too low