I’m 50 and have had this for years. I’m 10-15 lbs overweight, but my bloodwork numbers are good. I’m exhausted due to a combination of factors listed above: perimenopause, intensive parenting, stressful job, plus longish commute.

Perimenopause

Anonymous wrote:At your age I had very low iron and low thyroid. I was done by 5 pm. I’m now 56, no period, take levothroxine, go to bed by 10:30, that seems to help

According to the my doctor my thyroid is fine. My last thyroid test was in 2022 and it was 1.58 which my doc said was within the range. I will have him recheck it.

At your age I had very low iron and low thyroid. I was done by 5 pm. I’m now 56, no period, take levothroxine, go to bed by 10:30, that seems to help

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Anonymous wrote:How do you manage an hour of a highly intense workout when you are exhausted?

I have this question too. I have POTS and am exhausted all the time. I cannot walk a block without needing to stop and take a break because I'm so fatigued and dizzy. So maybe you have POTS, but it doesn't totally make sense to me that you can work out hard for an hour each day but you're also exhausted all the time. I'm not saying I doubt you! I'm saying I can't square those things. If you have POTS, you're exhausted all the time, from my experience, not just at the end of a long day.

I get exhausted at the end of the day. Not all the time, every day. For example, I fell asleep at 1 am last night. I woke up around 9.30. I drove to get my hair done, then had to run some chores. I was all ok. I got home around 3:30 and was very hungry. I ate dinner. Did some chores at home and by 6 pm I felt terrible exhaustions. It is physical exhaustion when I cant even watch a show. I need lay down and do nothing. I took a nap and I was feeling the tiredenss. I had 30 minute nap and feel better. It does not happen every day. Yesterday, for example, I did a lot of things plys ran 4 miles in the evening and I was perfectly fine.

It's puzzling.

I would get a colonoscopy.

Could it be dorsal vagal shutdown? This the freeze response that comes after a long period of "fight or flight".

Anonymous wrote:I feel this way. I’m 41.

I blame intensive parenting. Moms didn’t used to have to do so much.

Now society is structured around the expectation that we over function for decades.

I’m so worn out.

So true ! No wonder young women are saying no to motherhood. It's become so much harder - both in terms of the expected "work" of mothering and raising kids in our world today. No wonder we are exhausted.

Have a sleep study done. You might have sleep apnea.