Worn Out: Excuse # 4351
I didn't blog last night like I usually do because I was worn the heck out. For the last couple years I have had server bouts with tiredness. I'm tired all the time and it seems that my body requires at least 12 hours of sleep. I mean last night I got home from work at 6pm, I had a granola bar, went to bed, and woke up at 6 am this morning.
Yesterday I was just feeling blah. I happened to be fixing something for somebody at work when I over heard a gal talking to someone else about how she had just gone to the doctor for what sounded like very similar symptons. When I got finished with what I was working on I asked her to give me a little more detail on what her doctor had said. She told me that she was in the pre stages of diabetes. Diebetes!!!! Not good, there's history here for me.....
***Background*** A few years ago I worked with a guy who was diabetic and one day he wanted to give dear old me the finger prick and test my blood. First off, I'm scared of nothing...nothing that is except needles...It's not as much scared as it is hate...yea I hate them...Anyhow we tested my blood sugar and mine was reasonably hight...could it have been the two 64 oz Coca Cola's I drank every day? Well, I stopped drinkig Coke and went to Diet Coke (Yea I know I know "Diet Coke is worse for you".)
It was either during this time or possibly even as much as a year before this that I had started experiencing the serious tiredness. I had in the past and continued to have my thyroid checked out because it too could have been causing the problem. The doctor's had scheduled me then for a Glucose Tollerance Test. Yea....I didn't show for it.....So I never got resolution on that.
Okay so that all being said, I have a doctors appointment on the 10 of December to have a full physical to get checked out. Then hopefully I can begin feeling better. This tiredness prevents me from doing a lot of things. With tiredness comes lack of motivation and desire. So I got to get this thing nipped in the buttox.
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Something similar happened to me a while back - lots of lethargy. I've always eaten pretty healthy, and there isn't much diabetes in the family, and it wasn't that. The thyroid level had dropped out of the normal range, but not enough for them to want to do anything about it, so they said to come back in three months for another test. In the meantime, I checked out some alternative treatments and specifically did a bunch of yoga things that were to help with that, and when I went back my thyroid levels were back in the normal range and I wasn't to go back again to be tested. So, if it is your thyroid, take heart.
Of course, maybe it was that I didn't like my dissertation topic and the time and the situation involving the committee that I had and changing all that may have helped.
Posted by: Andrew | November 20, 2003 03:45 PM
Hello. Found your blog via Andrew's. Sorry can't find anything "about you". Perhaps I can't see for looking and will find it another time. Just wanted to say sorry you are suffering such tiredness. You don't say if you are experiencing any other symptoms. However, if this is affecting your life and curtailing usual activities, I am wondering if you have a mild form of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFIDS in the US). I'll look in again and see how you are getting on. Good luck with your doctors appointment.
Posted by: Ingrid Jones | November 22, 2003 02:07 PM
I have known some people who have had troubles like this. In a couple of cases it was Sleep Apnea. Basically it means that you stop breathing many times through the night, which triggers you to wake up to regain breath. Often times, hundreds of times a night. But usually you don't remember all the times that you wake up.
http://www.sleepapnea.org/geninfo.html#defined
If the other things show nothing, maybe look into a sleep clinic to make sure you are actually sleeping as much as you think you are.
Posted by: SMooSH | November 22, 2003 02:44 PM