I have no energy and don't feel like myself
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I have no energy to do anything. I feel like I need to sit or lie down all the time. I wake up and look forward to when I could go to sleep again. Everything I need to do feels like a chore, even brushing my teeth. I am no longer productive in anything. I lack the energy and motivation. I go to bed always saying that tomorrow will be a better day and I will do everything I need to do. My body feels shaky, and I feel so unbalanced. My body aches, but I don't even know if it's real or in my head. I am 47 years old. My periods are regular but some months there is bleeding in between. I go twice a year to my gynecologist and my tests come back good. I have diabetes, type 2, and everything is under control with medication. I am also on Paxil and Wellbutrin for depression, but I have been on that for many years. This feeling I have has started over 8 months ago. I feel so alone, sad, and dont like myself or how I feel all the time. I feel extremely useless. If I do one thing, I feel exhausted. You would think I'm jet lagged. Can somebody help me? I want to feel alive again.
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Sochima822 jcort718
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jcort718 Sochima822
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Sochima822 jcort718
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Kris1012 jcort718
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Hi
My symptoms started 5 months ago. With feeling tired,no get up and go,depresin . Don't want to do anything. Everything is a chore even washing my hair. Always having a new symptom everyday, feel so useless, lonely no ambitious.
Thanks for listening glad found this site.
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chelo jcort718
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jcort718 chelo
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thank you. It's just been so hard facing the world. i am sluggish all the time. I hope this passes.
DearDoe jcort718
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jcort718 DearDoe
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sue58256 jcort718
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are you by any chance going through the peri menopause? I have started the last few months and suffer from anxiety and depression although it is under control but I feel exactly like you. i can go to bed at ten wake at six and then in the afternoon sleep for another two hours plus when im not at work. this is the third time in a month I have woke up with a migraine type headache. yes i was at the stage where the thought of even washing my hair was a chore? maybe your meds need changing my love as it sounds as if they aren't helping with the depression any more but im not a doctor ive just gone through what you are going through also if you are losing extra blood that may have an impact and as somebody has suggested you could have become anaemic its worth having some blood tests done my love
jcort718 sue58256
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i really appreciate your advice. I am going Monday to my endchronlogst, and all this will be discussed with her. I assume this could be peri menopause, but I'm not quite sure. Would these be the symptoms of it? I just want to feel alive again. I don't know who I am anymore.
sue58256 jcort718
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jcort718 sue58256
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2chr2015 sue58256
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colleen90305 sue58256
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jcort718 colleen90305
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I have to research peri menopause bc I truly don't know much about this or that there is even a test for it.
shallah24 colleen90305
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Do you have to be having your period to take the test for peri ?
I had a hormone test whilst not on period - and tests saud I was not menopausal . But have realised that these tests are not reliable - depends when test is taken etc .
I am going back to GP as I am sure I am peri , have had symptoms of nausea , anxiety and low mood , changes in period for the last year . I think the GP doesn't know what to do. But is now considering that I might be peri , it's what she does next that is vital for me as I find the nausea unbearable . Was on stugeron , which stopped working & have gone back to stematil the last few days . Just wished the symptoms would decrease .
sue58256 colleen90305
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colleen90305 shallah24
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colleen90305 2chr2015
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colleen90305 2chr2015
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I'm not sure what he checked, but I had to get blood work on day 2. I'm shocked that many other doctors don't know this.
DearDoe shallah24
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I had the nausea for quite some time myself. It was horrible. I found that real ginger anything, not ale because most of that stuff doesn't even have ginger in it and the bubbles don't help your tummy, and peppermint tearfully helped.
shallah24 DearDoe
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