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Heyheey · 16/07/2023 22:28

I just feel exhausted all the time. I could sleep all day and still be tired. No amount of rest helps. I did a little bit of gardening today and my whole body now aches, I feel so drained. Struggling even to get up to go to the toilet as the legs are aching so much. All my blood tests are normal. No idea what’s going on with me

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RunningOutOfZzzzzzs · 16/07/2023 22:44

Ahhh, the old ‘blood tests are normal’. 🙄
Drs often say they are normal when your results are in normal range but ‘normal’ isn’t the same as optimal. You can be symptomatic at the lower end of normal for things like ferritin & vitamin B12 and feel crushing exhaustion and aches. Thyroid is another one that is frequently ignored but I know less about those results. Vitamin D can also cause exhaustion, & low folate.

Get a print out of your blood test results (or NHS online if in England) and see exactly what was tested, what your results were and how they compare to the labs reference range.
e.g Ferritin is normal between 20-300 for our lab yet nice guidelines say to treated at levels under 30. A dr would still say normal if you were 22 but you would feel a hell of a lot better at 150. I hope you get some answers & feel better soon Flowers

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