These are my symptoms. What is wrong?

[MirabelM]

For as long as I can remember, I have very little energy beyond going to work as a teacher, sorting out my two kids, house and husband and general day to day stuff. I'm sick of feeling soooo tired. My exhaustion is now affecting my kids and husband.

Symptoms include: fatigue, exhaustion, never waking up refreshed, irritable, very low mood, tearfulness, slow weight gain, brain feels heavy sometimes and cannot juggle thoughts or tasks.

I've had blood taken recently and awaiting results but I'm worried. I'm worried there'll be something majorly wrong but at the same time worried there'll be absolutely nothing physically wrong so I cannot fix it.

Please help. I just feel like crying.

I had many of these symptoms when I had a B12 deficiency. And then again when I had a vitamin D deficiency.

Sounds like me a few months ago. I was diagnosed as low in Vit D and folic acid.

Iron tablets

Berocca was a bit of a life changer for energy for me.

Also sleeping separately to my husband, I snore and annoy him but also am a really light sleeper so he woke me every time he moved. After 20 years I actually sleep deeply! (Love him dearly)

You sound exhausted. It might be a health issue and it's good you're getting it checked out, but I wonder if you simply have too much on your plate.

@SomeOwlsCoo

Sounds like me a few months ago. I was diagnosed as low in Vit D and folic acid.

I was as well and I think it did help. I haven't taken for ages though, which is stupid.

If they checked your iron levels make sure they also check ferritin, OP. That's what caused most of these symptoms for me.

My vote is under active thyroid, particularly with the hair thinning and feeling low. How is your immune system? Do you catch lots of bugs or are you generally healthy and well otherwise?

I genuinely can't live feeling like this. I'm not living. I don't think it's depression as such but I'm down about how I feel physically.

Bloods were only taken on Saturday.

Immune system seems fab. Omicron is currently ripping through my house and school and I'm negative!

Sounds very much like low iron, just going off my own experience. My ferrous iron was 5 and I was told by one doctor it should be over 50 to feel well.

I had these symptoms and it was b12 deficiency. Could also be long covid?

If the GP says my results are normal, I will cry.

As far as I know bytheway, I've never had Covid.

Hypothyroidism
Vitamin D deficiency
Iron deficiency
B12 deficiency
Perimenopause

You need to be screened for all of these.

@MirabelM
I have felt like this for a few months. I'm not sure if it's teaching or Long Covid? I also felt so beyond knackered with omicron. And tested positive on PCR but negative on LFTs.

Sounds like me before diagnosed with underactive thyroid, very unlikely to be anything sinister.

Another possible symptom is tinnitus and hearing issues since Dec 2019.

What is the blood test called for looking at menopause etc? Just want to see if itys on the list

You could take Vit D anyway - official advice is we all should through winter. Without supplements I can barely wake up in the morning.

HeyBlaby, did medication help? I feel like I'm losing the plot!

There's a link between tinnitus and B12.

Is there scribbling? Interesting. Thanks. @ScribblingPixie

Thanks for all the replies. So appreciated. I've thought aboutlong Covid but despite 3/4 of the family having Covid and being in school, I've never tested positive.

Do you feel the same in the school holidays as during term time OP?

I only ask because when I was teaching I too struggled with feeling exhausted all the time. The only times I felt “normal” were in the school holidays.

I no longer teach and am able to get to work at a reasonable time and my working day is generally much less full on. Weight gain could be explained by eating snacks to keep going if you are feeling tired?

I'm another voting for low iron/ferritin!

Can cause exhaustion, hair loss, tinnitus, depression.

I like you got private tests done and I was so relieved that there actually was something wrong with me!!

When you do get your results, even if a result is "normal" it may not be optimal.

Let us know how you get on?