Is this a normal way to feel?

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I wake up most mornings feeling exhausted and achey/in pain. I have had back pain since forever. Most days I feel so lethargic and just shit. Thyroid normal. Diet could definitely be improved. I sleep an average of about 6 or 7 hours but normally wake up once during the night. I'm early 30s and sick of feeling like this!!

i feel like this but i snore and wake up coughing a lot.. you may be snoring yourself or you maybe suffering from sleep apneoa. do you sleep on your own ? if you do then it will be difficult for you to know if you do stop breathing in your sleep. you can download sleep recorders that will record any noises you make at night. I was horrified to hear how much i was snoring and coughing. go back to your doctors and ask to be sent to a sleep clinic maybe.

I would say that a bad back and a poor diet alone are both things that would leave most people feeling knackered, lethargic and achy in general. It's really hard to get comfortable and sleep well if you've got a bad back, and diet (annoyingly) does often make a big difference to how well you feel in general. Would going to a private physio be an option to get your back looked at?

Maybe it's your mattress.

It could be due to inflammation from too much sugar.
Cut it right down and be amazed at the difference.

Do you exercise

What sort of things do you eat now, OP?

I am 49 and find I get more aches and pains if I don't do yoga regularly. I have been going to a regular class for 6+ years now and it has made such a difference to my strength and flexibility.

I'd recommend going to the GP and asking for a full blood count check to see if anything obvious is going on - low thyroid, low iron etc.

In the meantime try adding easy veg and fruit to your meals and take something like Floradix which is iron plus vitamins. A banana or defrosted frozen berries with breakfast, cherry tomatoes, celery and cucumber sticks with lunch, broccoli and peas with dinner, a pear as a snack.

Vitamin D also can really cause pain. Ask your GP to run bloods and also then view the results with the ranges yourself

Could literally be anything causing your issues. You may have bad posture and food intolerances. Or you could have anything? Saying this after finding out i have an intolerance to dairy after having spent 40 years suffering from migraines, irregular sleep patterns etc.

2 years later, no dairy, no migraines, sleep pattern markedly improved, in summary feel so much better.

Have you seen anyone about your back? Chiropractors? That'd be my quickest suggestion to see if your back is easily remedied.

What kind of exercise are you doing?

How much do you weigh - I lost weight and it really helped as I wasn't snoring so much in the night.

No, but that’s exactly how I felt in my 30s when I had a vitamin D deficiency. I literally thought I must be dying. They tested me for all sorts of autoimmune diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, etc. It was the vitamin D. Within 4 weeks of high dose supplementation, I felt normal again.

Incidentally, I now have stage 3 cancer and am on cancer treatment that makes me quite ill. This is the only other time in my life I’ve felt so unwell, so it goes to show you that it can make you really seriously poorly.