Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi everyone
If anyone can offer advice, help, or an explanation I would be so very grateful.
I arrive home from work and I'm so completely exhausted that I need a nap. I wake up still feeling totally drained and remain that way until I go to bed. Regardless of how much sleep I have, I will still awake in the morning feeling so unbelievably tired. Feeling that way all day, I get home and need a nap, the cycle continues. I then spend Saturday lethargic, by Sunday evening I'm feeling better, then come Monday it all begins again.
Can anyone help, know what this is about? I honestly don't feel like this is living at all. Does anyone else experience this?
That's how I've felt my entire life. It's exhausting. A lot of it is burnout and insomnia (trying to keep regular working hours despite my body being permanently jet-lagged).
But I did also discover that I was severely deficient in B12, and after having shots I felt amazing. I realised I had the energy levels of a 70 year old man for most of my 20s! So it's worth going to your GP and describing your symptoms because there are a number of things you can be deficient in to cause various forms of anemia or absorption issues relating to B vitamins or iron, or vitamin D, or if you are male, you might also be deficient in testosterone.
Thank you Untoward! Jet lag is exactly how it feels, sorry you experience it too. I will definitely mention it to GP next week when we discuss the antidepressants.