Hi ,
my situation is that I have been ill constantly since October.
I work in a busy A&e as a nurse .
back in September/ October there was a big shamble for a band 6 position. Won’t go into much details but it did stressed me out immensely and I also came out it feeling massively undervalued. The manager has now left after all of that . I just didn’t want to go in anymore but I powered on. Every annual leave I have been falling ill .
in February I got ill again with some form of virus and basically this time I haven’t really recovered. I powered through as I had AL coming up in March and again I have been ill, coughing , temperature, beyond exhaustion.
in the last 4 weeks I have seen GP 4 times , had bloods taken , payed for a private GP and also payed for a private chest X-ray as I convinced myself I must had had “something” . I have been feeling so tired , lost my appetite , had pins and needles everywhere . Bloods ok, chest X-ray ok. Iron a little low .
anyway nobody knows what’s going on but they seem to have put it down as some form of post viral fatigue …
I was also working nights for 3 months straight , from December through February and kept saying I really needed some time off work.
I am now at the end of my AL and I feel like my appetite is just about slowly coming back , I’m hoping I will be feeling a bit better soon but I can’t face going back in yet , I just know it’s gonna drain me as I still feel I have very little energy .
could it have been all stress?, I’m sort of scared they’ll just say I have just been off for two weeks so can’t be work related stress, no excuse to not go back . They are always short staffed as well so I am dreading calling in .
do you think there is a chance of them signing me off with stress ? Feel awful but at same time I honestly don’t know where I’m gonna find the strength to go back in this time .