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Fatigue

HP35

Does anyone else struggle a lot with fatigue? What are your strategies for managing it?

I'm asking here because I'm fairly sure it's related to autism. Social activities and any kind of sensory discomfort or pain tire me out much faster than they do my NT friends. However, it's also getting worse with age. When I was in my late teens, I could focus for hours, but these days I find myself having to take breaks during the day (I work from home) where I lie down and basically do nothing, sometimes even fall asleep, for an hour or two.

I sleep well, eat well, supplement B12, and exercise outdoors daily.

Has anyone managed to optimise their environment/routines to overcome this?

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  • Before I worked out some of my allergies, I was overwhelmed with fatigue. 

    Sugar and inflammation was the first thing to get sorted and this made a night and day change. Eventually I had to cut out gluten and grains. I'm now on a FODMAP diet and try to mind the sugar. << about 30 years of getting myself sorted. 

  • in reply to JuniperFromGallifrey

    Over the last two years I've run systematic dietary experiments, starting with only eatng rice and water and then adding one food at a time to figure out what I tolerate and don't. I managed to put together a nutritionally adequate diet and have been on that for at least six months now. It is great no to have the digestive problems I used to, and I've gained weight right up to the middle of the healthy BMI range, but I'm still tired. Maybe less tired than I was before I started the process, but still tired compared to when I was younger. And specifically more brain-tired. It's harder to focus.

  • in reply to HP35

    Have you had blood tests? It could be your thyroid or various other things. Says someone who suffers from fatigue and has never done this because I hate blood tests even though I have to have them every year for meds and could possibly ask them to check things related to tiredness... hmmm, maybe I should this year? But executive functioning...

  • in reply to AuTriker

    I managed to see a student doctor in 2012 who did blood tests (normal apparently on the iron front, no inflammation, and I don't have caeliac) but she left and every one since then has been dismissive.

    I don't remember being particularly tired then. More anxious, which I'm not so much now. I sometimes feel like anxious and tired are the only two states I have ever experienced.

  • in reply to HP35

    Wow, that's not OK! Get a second opinion or change GP?

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  • in reply to AuTriker

    I managed to see a student doctor in 2012 who did blood tests (normal apparently on the iron front, no inflammation, and I don't have caeliac) but she left and every one since then has been dismissive.

    I don't remember being particularly tired then. More anxious, which I'm not so much now. I sometimes feel like anxious and tired are the only two states I have ever experienced.