How tired arre you, most of the time?

[thesockmonsterofdoom]

I am always exhausted, I know I do a lot and I have 2 small dc etc, but have been to the docs several times over the last couple of years and there is nothing wrong with me.
I wake up tired, I could easily go to bed at 8pm most nights and I could quite happliy have a 2 or 3 hour nap in the day when I get chance.
I feel like I am sleeping my liofe away.
I am sat here now and my eyes are heavy and I could quite easily go to bed.
Is it normal, docs have tested me for anemia, diabeties and thyroid all were absolutly fine.

I was stuck in the house for 4 days last week when ds2 had D&V bug, by day 4 i was sluggish, depressed, low in energy

I needed fresh air

Yes, too much sleep can make you tired, also for me the timing of my sleep really makes me tired, during the holidays when dc are off school I always fall into the pattern of gong to bed 1-2 later and getting up 1-2 hours later, exactly the same amount of sleep but it makes me feel terrible, I discovered the perfect time for me to sleep is is 11.30pm to 7.30am, for some reason that works for me, and I feel fine despite suffering an underactive thyroid and never taking my medication

i don't think i've woken up feeling refreshed since i've had children. to be honest i think theres a little part of my brain which doesn't allow me to go into a really deep restful sleep incase i miss hearing one of my children crying. i don't know how i will cope when i go back to work and have to cope with mentally taxing situations. if you can go to bed at 8pm then try it and see if it helps. i go to bed as early as possible and our bedroom is an oasis of calm compared to the rest of the house

school run is 15minutes either way. I( also take dd2 out somewhere every morninf for a couple of hours.
I think I just need to shake it up a biot.
Herbie you poor thing.

Bloody hell Herbie that sounds awful.

I hope you get some let up from the pain sometimes - oooohhhh I do feel for you you must be a very strong person.

If you want an exersice you can do at home, buy yourself a rebounder (mini trampoline)

had thought about that, could do it while I watch corrie.

Shattered but surviving. Time of year makes it worse. I find spring and summer much easier.

DS nearly 2, I work full time. DH works every hour God sends. We are both knackered. Glad we had kids relatively early, can't imagine what this would feel like if we were both 10 years older.

I went to the doctor twice when my dds were younger as i had one 6 months and one 18 months and was working as a teacher part time. Each time she said the same thing - that i was doing too much.
Now they are 2 (nearly 3) and 4 and although i am still knackered by Thurs lunch time (when i finish my working week) i feel much better than i used to. Getting a decent night's sleep makes alot of difference. The girls sleep through now. Winter tends to make me want to stay in bed more too.

Haven't read whole thread but I feel a little tired all the time and never wake up feeling refreshed and usually fall asleep pretty quickly at night.

I think my tiredness has got much worse in the winter, i think the short days do not help one bit. (I would love to hibernate for winter!). Over christmas hols i managed to get around 4 days on my own without DH or DC's (they were all at DH's parents) and i slept for 9 hours every night and felt fabulous the whole time. So i think i actually need 9 hours undisturbed sleep to feel remotely normal and energised during the day. But the chances of that happening now that things are back to normal with DC's around are zero.Hence back to being tired all the time.

You have my sympathies ladies. I think tiredness just goes with being a Mum doesn't it?

As soon as I drag myself out of bed get up I am counting the hours until I can try and get a snooze in...

I know I do too much but who else is going to do it?!

I suffer from ME and atm, my sleep cycle has gone mad again. I'm shattered all the time
Feeling tired all the time can make you feel so ill/depressed and vice versa...vicious circle.
I'm so glad I'm not going back to work yet. I'd end up being sacked

Some of my friends take vit B6 and/or guarana, but I've not tried it.

sockmonster have you tried homeopathic remedies, it's just they sometimes work where conventional medicine fails - I've not tried it myself but have heard great things about it. It could be that your energy is out of balance, perhaps your body would respond better to yoga and meditation rather than the gym atm? sorry to sound like a total hippy !

solo so sorry to hear of your ME, one of my very good friends has this, it is truely a terrible illness. I would not recommend guarana - tried it once and got the shakes and felt horrible - only way I can describe it is itchy inside. Not good.

I am always tired as you described in you op sockmonster - it sucks.

Doctors said its stress and the life of a mum with 2 small kids. sigh.

haven't even got small children (2 teens and a 9 yr old) but I am permanently tired

It has been known for the last 50 years that Thyroid Function Tests are not reliable and that people with perfect blood tests could have advanced hypothyroidism.

found this and copied it for you:

Myth #1: The TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) blood test is the only way to diagnose hypothyroidism/low thyroid.

Facts: First, there is no perfect test in medicine?not the TSH or any other. Second, nearly a century before the TSH test was developed, doctors made the diagnosis of hypothyroidism without any tests at all. They listened to their patients and examined them. Since then, there have been many tests that have been blindly followed until they proved to be unreliable and were discarded.

To this day, there are at least three types of hypothyroidism for which the TSH test does not even test. The TSH is not a useful test for hypothyroidism caused by dysfunction of the pituitary gland or of the hypothalamus (part of the brain,) or for hypothyroidism caused by "tissue resistance" to the effects of thyroid hormone.

My conclusion: The TSH test can miss the diagnosis of hypothy-
roidism. To most accurately identify hypothyroidism, I start with the approach that has worked for over a century. I listen to the patient and look for evidence of low thyroid function. If the patient appears hypothyroid, I order blood tests including the TSH, but I also (1) check basal body temperature,1 and (2) check the urine thyroid hormone levels.2 I then interpret all test results in the context of the
individual patient.

Myth #2: Normalizing the TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) blood test is the best way to treat hypothyroidism.

Fact:Many studies have shown adjusting thyroid doses to normalize the TSH blood test leaves many patients with symptoms of low thyroid. World-renowned thyroid specialist, Sir Anthony Toft, MD, discussed this sad fact in 2002. In a speech to the British Endocrine Society, Dr. Toft reviewed some of the evidence that demonstrated that the modern TSH-centered approach was ineffective. He concluded, "...the treatment of hypothyroidism is about to come full circle"?going back to the approach that worked so well before all of our modern tests and treatments were invented.3

My conclusion: Using the patient as my guide, I focus on reversing the signs and symptoms of low thyroid function while avoiding side effects or signs of thyroid excess. When the TSH is normal but the patient continues to be symptomatic, I prefer to err on the side of treating the patient?not normalizing the blood test.

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www.thyroid-info.com/topdrs/

What do you eat in a typical day? Diet can make you tired too.

That's very true Xenia, I have to try to discipline myself to avoid the instant fix of erfined sugariness when flagging at work. It makes me feel better for a bit but the sugar crash makes it 100 times worse.

When I was found to be intolerant of yeast and gave up sandwiches at lunch time I stopped feeling sleepy after lunch. Also when I gave up junk food a year ago I stopped feeling sleepy and also stopped catching colds even. It is incredible the difference it made.

I am never sure to what extent all this is psychosomatic but certanily giving up yeast (which on a blood test was the only food I was intolerant of and not allergic even) which is in bread but also alcohol which never agreed with me anyway, made me feel much less tired.

Sweets and white bread spike your blood sugar levels up only to crash later which is why diabetics have to avoid them and most depression treatments recommend 3 balanced meals and cutting out the junk food, sugar and white flour.