Mental health or something else?

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I have borderline personality disorder. This is managed well by medication and I haven’t had a crisis in a long time.

Despite this I cannot shake the constant, bone aching tiredness. I have had this level of tiredness for a long time. I have been to the GP about it a couple of times and they have done blood tests but everything has come back normal so they say it’s a symptom of my mental health.

I can’t describe the tiredness. It’s more than just being tired. My whole body hurts and I can sleep for 15 hours and still feel tired. When I am asleep, it’s not quality sleep. I toss and turn and wake up repeatedly. It gets to the point where I am so tired I can’t form proper sentences or think straight.

I don’t want to go to the gp again if it’s just a part of my mental health but I can’t help feeling there is something more.

Any one got any advice or similar experiences?

What medication are you on, do they have a sedative effect?

I think people with mental health difficulties have a very hard time getting meaningful treatment for other illnesses, as it's so easy to blame MH. My aches and pains were put down to mental health, and it was only when I got visual signs of arthritis that it was acknowledged.

I have asked the doctor before if it could be my medication but they said it’s not one of the known side effects. I don’t want to try changing my medication because, apart from this tiredness, my mental health has been good since being on it.

Have a look at cronicfatigue syndrome.

I’d try a different doctor. It’s easy to dismiss symptoms as being part of MH but you know yourself and you know this is different. There are conditions that cause fatigue that don’t show up in blood tests, including chronic fatigue as HappyGilmore2 said, the other thing I wondered about is Fibromyalgia. The other thing is they may have missed something in blood tests. I’m having physical health issues on the background of MH and ASD. 3 lots of bloods showed nothing but I’m getting loads of headaches so a different doctor did more bloods as part of a neurology referral, these picked up low ferritin which explains my tiredness and might be the cause of the headaches.

I would push for further bloods and a rheumatology referral in your circumstances.