Energy and aches

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Can anyone recommend any vitamins or supplements to take?

I always wake up in a morning feeling achy and unrefreshed, takes about an hour for me to come round. Then the headache starts which lasts nearly all day. When it gets to about 3pm I start feeling tired and burnt out with no energy at all.

Any tips please

Also I'm 40 years old with a 3 and 2 year old. Prob the reason I'm feeling exhausted

Is this a new thing or has it been going on a while? I only ask because I had the exact same symptoms and it turned out to be Covid.

@Watto1 I had covid in January and it does feel a little like that, just not had bad.

It's been going on a few months now

*as bad

Sounds like perimenopause. I started taking hrt at 42 , I was hitting a wall at 3pm and hobbling around. I have so much more energy now. My children were a similar age.

@Thissucksmonkeynuts

Sounds like perimenopause. I started taking hrt at 42 , I was hitting a wall at 3pm and hobbling around. I have so much more energy now. My children were a similar age.

I was thinking that in the back of my mind. How did you find out it was?

I was thinking this myself at the back of my mind. How did you find out you was? @Thissucksmonkeynuts

Bumping due to losing my post yesterday

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When I felt like this, it turned out I had a vitamin D deficiency. And it became apparent at about this time of year.

You can start supplementing (everyone in the UK should be taking vitamin D, we just don't get enough sunshine in the winter) but I'd go and get checked by a doctor, because the dose they put me on was huge! And it was a six month course.

I honestly thought I was pregnant I was that tired (my DH has had a vasectomy, so zero chance). I also realised that my son's school was at the bottom of a hill. I'd never noticed before because I never felt so tired that getting to the top of the hill was a problem iyswim?

I even bought a TV for my bedroom because I couldn't be bothered to sit downstairs.

It was awful, but it was just a vitamin D deficiency!

I had so many of the symptoms, including dizziness that was hindering daily life and a change in visual perception that made work difficult. I went to the gp and because NICE guidelines for prescribing hrt are to rule out other causes in the under 45s I was sent to a neurologist, a audiologist and for loads of blood tests. Nothing came back as causing my symptoms so she prescribed hrt and I was starting to feel better after 24hrs. I'd previously been under the continence nurse for a truly twitchy bladder and it was blamed on breastfeeding 🙄. It's almost completely gone away after 12 months of hrt .

Thanks for that. Yes the constant dizziness is affecting me more than anything. I'm struggling with day to day tasks.
I've been and had some bloods took this morning so see what the results say Friday