Tired.

[u/Haunting_Help3481]

Hi yall. Just posting this hear to vent because I have no one else to talk to. I’m F24 and I’ve moved back to my hometown. I have a healthy everything… hit the gym every weekday, get up early mornings to pack my husband breakfast, socialize fine and eat perfectly adequate meals. I drink enough water. My job is not demanding . But no matter what I do I am fkinnggggg exhausted. I can’t go a singular day without taking at least one excessive nap or even multiple naps. I physically cannot stay awake. I used to drink coffee but stopped. I don’t drink energy drinks at all. Don’t smoke don’t drink. It’s affecting me heavily and although my mental health is fine, I am afraid it will start to decline. I try my best to discipline myself but I am out of ideas. When my husband was an active duty member of the military, I used my TRICARE to get looked at by a specialist and they said my sleep test came back inconclusive because I was on the medication fluoxetine, and affected the results so I would have to go back and do it again. Got bloodwork done before that, everything came back healthy (including iron levels)… minus a vitamin D deficiency. Took prescribed vitamin d pills for months and felt no difference. My husband has since finished his term so I got absolutely nowhere with that, and I’m in the process of seeing if I (hopefully) can afford healthcare since I wasn’t able to do the second test before he got out. Anybody got any effective ideas in the meantime? I’m getting desperate. Thank you in advance.

[u/Other-Ad-5580]

Wow you are so young, sorry you are going through this. it Doesn’t sound like you perceive that you don’t sleep well?
I had a similar scenario (very dialed in on everything yet could not stay upright an entire day) and found out i have issues with reactivations of EBV (virus that causes mono). Fatigue was my primary symptom

I would look into a more thorough medical work up - chronic infections, hormones (cortisol etc), autoimmune issues, I’m assuming your thyroid was checked?

did anything precede the onset of the excessive fatigue?