Im so fed up of feeling exhausted.
I'm 38 I've been exhausted forever it feels. Have periods if energy when it feels like a weight has life then back to exhausted again. I try going to bed early but still wake up tired. I've done through periods of this for an long as I can remember. Feel generally run down a lot. Skin rashes, mouth ulcers, headaches, bowel issues. Then the joint pains when I was a child it was all my major joints. I knees, hips, shoulders, elbows, neck. Now it's mainly hips, knees and neck they grind and ache. I've been to the doctors various times from childhood to now when it's been particularly bad. They suggest ani inflammatory pain killers (though scans and blood test say I'm not inflamed) and more recently antidepressants. I do have lower iron and vid d but only borderline (docs disnt pick it up, relative doctor suggested I take some supliments after looking at blood results) I'm slightly over healthy weight (emotional eater when tired) but fit (run when I'm strong enough sometime 3 times a week and walk when ever I can) I do have a stressful work (company director) and homelife (family with difficult health issues) and two young children. But my general fatigue, pain and feeling of being run down has been with me since childhood.
I'm tired of being dismissed by the gp as it feels like there is something more than just a few aches and overdoing it. But I don't know where else to go.
I suspect I may have something like a mild ME of CFS after one consultant mentioned it in passing when I was just out of uni (and often crawling up the stairs by the end of the day) but never a diagnosis. I know if this was the case there would be to miracle cure, but maybe some of my less understanding relative would become a little more supportive.
How do you get a hot to listen or where do you go to get some help?
Thank you.