I have had a rough six months health wise and I'm not sure how to handle it at work.
I was diagnosed with endometriosis in August following escalating period pain. Due to where it is, not much can be done about it. Lifestyle factors like losing weight, relaxation, and eating more protein could help.
I'm therefore trying to get fit with a nutritionist and coach. But, every time I exercise (even short little stretches of 10-15 mins) I get loads of pain and fatigue and brain fog two days later, not really sure why and it's being investigated...possible rheumatoid arthritis. This has been going on for years but the GP has ignored my pleas for help, it's only when I got a new one they started investigating properly. The new one is putting me on iron tablets even though the previous one said "I'm in the normal range" so hopefully that'll help....the new one pointed out that I was only just in range and if I'm getting so much fatigue it's possibly low for me.
I have good stamina with exercises I'm used to like walking but new exercises leave me exhausted.
Between these two things I feel like I'm letting work down, as between all of this I'm only energetic two or three days a week.
I work part time already 9-3.
I feel like I need to bring this up with work as it's a lot to juggle....but I have been in between line managers for all this time as the outgoing one was retiring and the incoming one doesn't answer the phone or teams for one to ones.
I guess they're happy with what I'm doing as otherwise they'd have said something? I've opened dialogue with HR instead as it was getting silly. But, I don't actually know what I want work to do about it, this is uncharted territory for me and my old, now retired, line manager would have given me some advice which I feel is lacking in the current team, and I'm having to come up with my own ideas of how to deal with this but am sort of shooting in the dark.
I really just want a few months off to get on top of it all as I feel so overwhelmed :(