How tired do you feel on a scale of 1-10 most days?

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How tired do you feel most days with 1 being on your knees with exhaustion and having to nap multiple times per day and 10 being brimming with energy?

I have been feeling very fatigued lately and I’m only 36 and don’t have kids. Not sure if this is just normal tiredness for my age considering I am going through a stressful time with unwell parents and am probably quite depressed. I don’t drink coffee and the last time I had my bloods done a couple of years ago everything seemed fine other than low ferritin which I’ve been taking high strength iron for.

i’d probably put myself as a 3 or 4 on the scale as I feel very drowsy throughout the day with heavy eyes but I can just about make it through without any naps.

I’m just over 10 yrs older than you and I’m about 5-6 but that’s because I’m working pt, 3 teens, caring for elderly relative, doing pretty much all household chores.
Get a blood test again. A lot can change in a couple of years. Do you sleep well? If not, have a look at magnesium.

Worth speaking to the dr and getting bloods done again.
My thyroid was fine one year, underactive the next. Same for B12.

A few years older than you I am always around a 5-7 energy level. I can and will nap whenever I am able to. Consistently require 9-10 hours sleep a day and never fully feel recharged. I take multiple vitamins and have no known health conditions. Partly I think it’s how busy we are our minds never really shut off for long.

I’m 46, have an 11yo and I work 3 days a week. I’d say a 7 because I take tamoxifen which makes me tired.

I'm 66. Probably 9. I get 6 to 7 hours sleep on average, exercise daily and don't nap.

Interesting. So it does seem like I am experiencing unusual tiredness then and sounds like I need to go back for more blood tests

2 on a good day. I’m middle-aged, menopausal with one giant fibroid (hysterectomy due this year) and a teaching job, a husband, elderly parent and PIL. I volunteer at Scouts. I volunteer to teach Bikeability at DC school.

Crunch time in life, I guess.

Probably a 3 or 4 going by your scale - I do need a sit down and gee myself up multiple times a day!

35, fat, 3 kids, work part time, bloods all generally fine 🤷‍♀️ just life!

I have 2 dcs, a 2 and 5 year old. I’m 40 years old.
Small business I do from home.
Days are busy and I’m on my feet a lot, but I don’t really feel tired till my head hits the pillow at night. I’m still breastfeeding, my 2 year old wakes up a couple of times in the night but is half asleep and goes straight back to sleep, as do I. It doesn’t take me long to fall asleep.

I’ll say an 8.5/9 for energy level most days.

3-5 generally. 7 on an exceptional day

Exercise regularly early 40s 2 kids toddler and kids

Same age, and the same here.

7 or 8, wake between 5 and 6 am feeling well rested. My chronotype is Lion ( so best early in the day) but manage to get through the day without a nap most days and do 2 evening activities each week. Yoga daily run 3 X a week plant based non UPF diet 7-8 hours sleep each night 49 and in perimenopause. DC aged 18 & 21 work 50 hours a week.

1. Ferritin level 3. Home educating four children. Two year old still waking multiple times a night. Feel like I could sleep standing up sometimes.

I rarely get through the day without a nap or at least near misses. Three kids in school so school run but no job, volunteer two nights a week. Scored 16 on the daytime sleep test which isn't good. Bloods all totally normal.

It's not really an accurate assessment scale because it entirely depends on someones life and activities.

Probably a 6/7 most days
Im 41, one teen, one young primary age child. DH works away.
Excercise twice a day 4 days a week and once two days a week
Work full time
Sleep average 10.00-5.30 no naps i don't have time to.

I don't take naps but I am usually really quite tired most days, maybe 4 or 5 on that scale. I have been on and off anaemic since my teens though which has an impact on that, and hypothyroid for many years and I have struggled with insomnia since I was a small child. I am really good at pushing through the tiredness though, probably because I'm so used to it, but my constant yawning is a running joke at work. And my silliness when I get really tired.

Around 7? I’m 40, 7yr old twins and work full time.

I think you’re experiencing an excess of tiredness at that level, OP.

1-2. I'm 47. Chronically anemic, peri-menopausal, work full-time, three children one with a debilitating physical condition and one with significant special needs.
I've started seeing a private functional medicine specialist but it's not name any difference so far.

Yeah OP I’d get checked, I don’t think that’s normal. I reckon I usually run about a 6-7 but I have 4 DC inc one toddler, 2 DSC (so 6 altogether), dog, work PT and am just generally ridiculously busy - your level of tiredness seems very extreme. I’d put myself at a 3-4 currently but that’s because I’m pregnant again and exhausted by it so I’d definitely get some kind of investigations done if I were you.

Definitely get your blood tested every year. It could be lack of iron, vitamin D, B12. Anything.

1. Provided I don't eat wheat, which acts on me like antihistamine.

I will be the oldest here, never sleep during the day. Go to sleep at the earliest of 1 am, up at 7.30 without an alarm.

There was one day last week, when I was so physically tired in my limbs, I went to bed at 10 pm. I had dismantled a tumble dryer to remove it from the pantry. Reassembled it, then "walked" it down steps and out of the garden for collection.
Then unpacked the new one and refitted it in the pantry. Then cut the lawns.
I take no prescription drugs, only supplements. I am very much, you are what you eat. I am also very lucky. I remind myself of that every day.

My daughter remarked that I'm abnormal. 😀
I pointed out, that as she works in a hospital, she only sees old people who are sick.
She said she sees lots of old people such as visitors and I'm are not a normal old person.
I'd take not normal over abnormal any day.

56 years old. Three years remission from breast cancer so on medication for that. I sleep for about 3-4 hours on and off a night. I'm teaching 4 days a week but soon to retire from teaching.

I'm pretty knackered most of the time but do seem to function ok so I figure I must be getting more sleep than I think.

@PiggyPigalle My daughter also thinks I'm unusual for having nomral blood pressure and not being on prescription meds at 66, but she worked in pharmacies for a couple of years.

I’m 41, I’m probably so tired i could vomit at 6pm about 3 times a week. Otherwise I’m about a 5 baseline I’d say.