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Tiredness and Fatigue

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SMJYellow · 23/02/2019 12:01

I get tired easily. It's not a normal tiredness. I feel hungover even though I don't drink to bring that on.

I don't know if it's my work that's causing me this exhaustion or something else. I work as a childminder for a family but it turned into more like slavery than anything else. The parents trying to extort as much as possible out from me.

I used to have a daily energy drink but I gave that up. Around about the same time, I started taking a range of vitamins for my oral health because I had some dental issues. I had a few weeks where I felt more energy, my head and energy was better. I came down with a heavy cold the week before last and fell off the wagon with my vitamins and minerals.

The past week, I felt completely drained. I don't know if it's because stopping the vitamins and minerals, or the work that I have. On tuesday I worked from morning until 9.45pm - the parents let me home at. On Thursday it was morning til after 11pm at night. So they are long days. This definitely isn't the first time I worked these long kind of days. I f eel if it was any other job, I would get a lunch break in the day where I could digest a meal and finish at a reasonable time in the evening.

Does anyone else suffer from tiredness, exhaustion, fatigue?

Did you find anything that helps?

OP posts:
SMJYellow · 23/02/2019 12:15

I got blood work done last summer at the doctors and that came back all good.

OP posts:
SMJYellow · 26/02/2019 18:24

Every morning I wake up I feel hungover

OP posts:
SMJYellow · 26/02/2019 18:25

Even though I'm not drinking to gain a hangover

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fruitandve · 26/02/2019 19:27

Hey Op, sorry no one has replied to you. I'm afraid it sounds like your employers are seriously taking the p out of you in relation to your hours. I think you're exhausted and overworked which is why you feel this way.. you're just reacting to your circumstances! Can you have a word with your family and say you cannot continue like this?

LovingLola · 26/02/2019 19:35

You have posted before about these people. Have you been able to make any headway about finding other work ?

theworldistoosmall · 26/02/2019 19:45

Do you have a contract with the family that stipulates hours? You need to enforce them and if no-one is there to collect at X time, send them a text saying you are contacting SS and do it. They are taking the piss.

Get your bloods done again. I have amenia. Last week it was also picked up that I have Pernicious anaemia (I don't absorb B-12), even though I have regular blood tests

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