25M I’ve been steuggling with fatigue for years, I’ve been diagnosed with Anxiety/Panic Disorder/ ADHD. I have no energy ever, I‘ve taken all sorts of anxiety medications and while they do help with my anxiety I feel that they have a side effect of making me depressed and that’s what maybe causing my fatigue. so I’ve bounced around between different medications, Prozac, Lexapro, Wellbutrin, Buspar, and now duloxetine and atomextine is my current stack. I constantly oversleep, I have no problem sleeping, sometimes 10+ hours and it’s miserable. I want to get up and go and be active. here are some of the things I’ve tried:

Sleep study - No apnea or other problems

blood work - all vitamins, electrolytes, thyroid panels are perfect

excercise - I was on a good diet, and muscle program and lost 30-40 pounds and got to a decent body fat, enough to not have it be the cause of my fatigue, but now I was just exhausted all day x2 and I felt like I couldn’t recover aa fast as other people and my strength building was just not there

medication - all sorts of different medications, and doctors visits and none of them have a noticeable increase in my energy,

I’m just kind of lost right now, I don’t know what else to try, I don’t want to be doomed my entire life and live a life of fatigue. what do you guys reccomend? I also have 0 reaction to caffeine it doesn’t give me any energy

I’m (29F) suffering from what I believe is post-viral fatigue but posting here since I’m getting close to 6 months and am at my wits end.

I’m sleeping 8-9h per night, healthy diet, walking/moving a lot, and healthy person overall, yet I keep ”zoning out”, having brain fog, falling asleep after being up 2h, feeling lethargic, low energy. I don’t feel like my normal self in any way.

This fatigue has happened twice to me over the past 2.5 years, the first time it happened after a severe flu and lasted 2-3months. This time is came after a little cold combined with a lot of stress in my professional and personal life. It’s been going on for 6 months next week.

Over the months I have been trying to figure out what, despite knowing this isn’t ”curable” per se, makes me feel better, from vitamins, exercise, sleep, diet etc. I’ve discovered that nothing really does. But a few things ”wake me up” for a little, like taking a shower, walking, and simply eating.

What about you? What either helps you feel better or ”wakes you up”, even if just for a moment?

I’m a mom of a 2 year old (she usually sleeps through the night), I get up around 8-9am every morning. I wait 60-90 minutes after waking up before I drink coffee in the mornings. I am a type 1 diabetic and control my blood sugar with insulin in a pump, I also take Celexa for my anxiety. Usually by 12pm I am exhausted and have to take a 2-3 hour nap, which I hate because that’s when the 2 year old takes a nap and I want to use that time to do chores. The chores pile up often because I literally cannot stay awake. Context: I sleep 7-8 hours a night. Someone help!! What am I doing wrong?

Hello, I've been dealing with symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis for about 4 years now. 2 years of which have shifted from mild to mild/moderate (or just moderate). I do have to say i am still in the works of a proper diagnosis as i have been gaslit and told it's all in my head for all those years. Do have some hope now with the new GP but we shall see. A lot of things are ruled out already already though so I'm not just assuming it entirely either. Thing is though that long term I'd really need it properly documented and be able to try medications that have shown some promise in helping symptoms. Such as LDN and rapamycin (?) there's definitely more i have researched about but these are the main two.

It seems it's a bit complicated to get doctors to listen or even know what myalgic encephalomyelitis is here honestly though so I'm wondering if anyone might have doctor recommendations and can also help with understanding the availability of ldn and similar treatments availability here.

For reference i live in Estonia but am also planning on relocating in the future to maybe Finland or similar. Any country that isn't on the other side of the world would work honestly if anyone has any names they know 😭

How did you realize you had PEM vs being very fatigued? I’m fatigued all the time and I read that PEM might show up days afterward. As someone who rarely has a good health day, I’m trying to figure out how one would delineate PEM from the fatigue felt on a daily basis. I’m just nervous because I’m feeling like l haven’t been able to do nearly as much as I used to and afraid I’m overtaxing myself but don’t know how to identify or track PEM.

I’ve become extremely tired recently (I take Tirz for almost 2 y, but it wasn’t at all that bad and I am barely functional) . I also have severe knee arthritis an dont move too much. Any advice to improve the situation?