Check your thyroid levels, make sure you're getting enough vitamin D, and if it persists, discuss it with your doctor. I went YEARS and I do mean years of just accepting that I was going to be "tired" (my thyroid was fine, so was my vitamin D), so my doctor just wrote it off as "depression", which I have struggled with in the past, but this was different. Last year I found out I have a genetic condition to which one of the symptoms is extreme fatigue. Thankfully, I've been in treatment for a year and my activity level is back to normal. Have your doctor go over ALL the possible causes and don't stop until you get answers. I waited far too long to get mine.
Quoting Mrs_Incredible:Check your thyroid levels, make sure you're getting enough vitamin D, and if it persists, discuss it with your doctor. I went YEARS and I do mean years of just accepting that I was going to be "tired" (my thyroid was fine, so was my vitamin D), so my doctor just wrote it off as "depression", which I have struggled with in the past, but this was different. Last year I found out I have a genetic condition to which one of the symptoms is extreme fatigue. Thankfully, I've been in treatment for a year and my activity level is back to normal. Have your doctor go over ALL the possible causes and don't stop until you get answers. I waited far too long to get mine.
Sure. I've had depression since I was a pre-teen (diagnosed) and couple suicide attempts. I'm very familiar with the feeling of depression and this was different. I WANTED to be able to have the energy, but I couldn't even walk through half the mall without needing a nap. It was ridiculous. I was basically taking my kid to school, napping when we got home (myself and my toddler) and then laying on the couch supervising him playing. So unfair to him. Anyways, I have hemachromatosis. It's a genetic condition in which the liver cannot filter out excess iron from the blood (causing many issues, the worst of which being organ failure, but in the early stages extreme fatigue). It was caught because my father went into liver failure and they didn't know why (and after weeks of testing they figured it out). I was lucky in that my levels had just started rising over the previous years and hadn't gotten high enough to cause any damage. Hemachromatosis is treated by bloodletting, so I donate blood every 4-8 weeks, depending on where my levels are. My blood is fine, it's my liver's inability to filter the blood. So as long as I tell the blood donation site (which I do) and my iron levels are safe for donation (which once I got on my maintenance program - about 6 months, they were), I'm able to donate blood to help others who need it instead of dumping it in the trash. I was so relieved to find out that this was an actual issue and not just me not having energy. Seroiusly though, fatigue can be symptoms of underlying illness, so speak with your doctor.
Quoting ZakkarysMom:
Do you mind if I ask what kind of genetic condition? If you dont want to answer I completely understand. I do have depression. Ive had that for about 13 years.
Quoting Mrs_Incredible:Check your thyroid levels, make sure you're getting enough vitamin D, and if it persists, discuss it with your doctor. I went YEARS and I do mean years of just accepting that I was going to be "tired" (my thyroid was fine, so was my vitamin D), so my doctor just wrote it off as "depression", which I have struggled with in the past, but this was different. Last year I found out I have a genetic condition to which one of the symptoms is extreme fatigue. Thankfully, I've been in treatment for a year and my activity level is back to normal. Have your doctor go over ALL the possible causes and don't stop until you get answers. I waited far too long to get mine.
Quoting Mrs_Incredible:Sure. I've had depression since I was a pre-teen (diagnosed) and couple suicide attempts. I'm very familiar with the feeling of depression and this was different. I WANTED to be able to have the energy, but I couldn't even walk through half the mall without needing a nap. It was ridiculous. I was basically taking my kid to school, napping when we got home (myself and my toddler) and then laying on the couch supervising him playing. So unfair to him. Anyways, I have hemachromatosis. It's a genetic condition in which the liver cannot filter out excess iron from the blood (causing many issues, the worst of which being organ failure, but in the early stages extreme fatigue). It was caught because my father went into liver failure and they didn't know why (and after weeks of testing they figured it out). I was lucky in that my levels had just started rising over the previous years and hadn't gotten high enough to cause any damage. Hemachromatosis is treated by bloodletting, so I donate blood every 4-8 weeks, depending on where my levels are. My blood is fine, it's my liver's inability to filter the blood. So as long as I tell the blood donation site (which I do) and my iron levels are safe for donation (which once I got on my maintenance program - about 6 months, they were), I'm able to donate blood to help others who need it instead of dumping it in the trash. I was so relieved to find out that this was an actual issue and not just me not having energy. Seroiusly though, fatigue can be symptoms of underlying illness, so speak with your doctor.
Quoting ZakkarysMom:
Do you mind if I ask what kind of genetic condition? If you dont want to answer I completely understand. I do have depression. Ive had that for about 13 years.
Quoting Mrs_Incredible:Check your thyroid levels, make sure you're getting enough vitamin D, and if it persists, discuss it with your doctor. I went YEARS and I do mean years of just accepting that I was going to be "tired" (my thyroid was fine, so was my vitamin D), so my doctor just wrote it off as "depression", which I have struggled with in the past, but this was different. Last year I found out I have a genetic condition to which one of the symptoms is extreme fatigue. Thankfully, I've been in treatment for a year and my activity level is back to normal. Have your doctor go over ALL the possible causes and don't stop until you get answers. I waited far too long to get mine.
I'd much rather know there's a problem and confront it head on than to not be here for my kids because I was too afraid. I'm not trying to be rude at all. Like I said, it could be something simple like your thyroid or vit D levels, but you won't know unless you speak with your doc.
Quoting ZakkarysMom:
Honestly Im afraid of what it could be. Its not my depression. Today I walked to the store like 4 blocks away pushing my boys in the double stroller..after I got home..8 blocks total..I was completely exhausted. Ive had other health problems..complete heart block in 2007..and a pulmonary embolism in 2009. I just dont want to have anymore health problems.
Quoting Mrs_Incredible:Sure. I've had depression since I was a pre-teen (diagnosed) and couple suicide attempts. I'm very familiar with the feeling of depression and this was different. I WANTED to be able to have the energy, but I couldn't even walk through half the mall without needing a nap. It was ridiculous. I was basically taking my kid to school, napping when we got home (myself and my toddler) and then laying on the couch supervising him playing. So unfair to him. Anyways, I have hemachromatosis. It's a genetic condition in which the liver cannot filter out excess iron from the blood (causing many issues, the worst of which being organ failure, but in the early stages extreme fatigue). It was caught because my father went into liver failure and they didn't know why (and after weeks of testing they figured it out). I was lucky in that my levels had just started rising over the previous years and hadn't gotten high enough to cause any damage. Hemachromatosis is treated by bloodletting, so I donate blood every 4-8 weeks, depending on where my levels are. My blood is fine, it's my liver's inability to filter the blood. So as long as I tell the blood donation site (which I do) and my iron levels are safe for donation (which once I got on my maintenance program - about 6 months, they were), I'm able to donate blood to help others who need it instead of dumping it in the trash. I was so relieved to find out that this was an actual issue and not just me not having energy. Seroiusly though, fatigue can be symptoms of underlying illness, so speak with your doctor.
Quoting ZakkarysMom:
Do you mind if I ask what kind of genetic condition? If you dont want to answer I completely understand. I do have depression. Ive had that for about 13 years.
Quoting Mrs_Incredible:Check your thyroid levels, make sure you're getting enough vitamin D, and if it persists, discuss it with your doctor. I went YEARS and I do mean years of just accepting that I was going to be "tired" (my thyroid was fine, so was my vitamin D), so my doctor just wrote it off as "depression", which I have struggled with in the past, but this was different. Last year I found out I have a genetic condition to which one of the symptoms is extreme fatigue. Thankfully, I've been in treatment for a year and my activity level is back to normal. Have your doctor go over ALL the possible causes and don't stop until you get answers. I waited far too long to get mine.
She's cheating on him
- ZakkarysMom
on Jul. 28, 2012 at 10:58 PM