Hi ladies....forgive my absence I have had a busy few weeks.
I was doing wonderfully the past couple of months and then wham......I feel like I have been hit by a bus! I keep dozing off.....even at a friends the other night....watching a movie and I fell asleep sitting upright! What the heck?? Yesterday I needed two naps....I literally could not keep my eyes open......people were at the door, doorbell, buzzer, phone and I heard not a thing?? Very unlike me. Despite how much I am sleeping I do not seem to be alert at all. What the heck is going on now? I almost ran to the doctors figuring I must be in kidney failure or something....I know I know....lol. Anyone else find this happens? It is really starting to bother me now. I have an event tonite and literally just want to stay home even though I cannot......just want to lie down and sleep for days. Grrrrr. Tell me I am not alone here.

you are not alone.I have been feeling like this since the last 5 days.I just cant get enough sleep it seems.I hit the snooze buuton for over an hour this morning and I have been in bed and asleep by 9 each nite and I just feel so tired too.My body and my mind...I just wanna sleep. ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz

i went to that place for an entire year.............could not wake up, so to speak.......i was told it was chronic fatigue sydrome///yet i looked at what my doc wrote on my chart...........depression, yet it certainly was not........that was 25 years ago!

same here glad that it not just me

In my late 30 and into 40's I could sleep a whole weekend away easily. Now a nap sounds so fabulous, but, they come few and far between. I have to take a xanax to fall asleep at night usually around 12:00am, I wake up to use the bathroom 1-2 times a night, but, usually am able to fall back to sleep and I sleep until about 9:00 am. But, I know feeling fatigued is not as lovely as I think it sounds to you ladies.

Try not to get too concerned about this. It was my response to dropping oestrogen which I think in turn caused my thyroid all sorts of grief. I did not have thyroid disease but it jolly well felt like it. Take a look at hypothyroidism symptoms and you will immediately think......YES! That is just like me! I could usually manage until I sat down and then I would drop off to sleep alarmingly quickly. I even diagnosed myself with narcolepsy at one stage. Lol! You know how it is girls...........he he he.....
I used to sink down in to such deep sleep that I think that I would have been oblivious to a fire alarm. Oh, and then trying to wake up was a real challenge. Talk about waking the dead................................ and one more piece of advice don't look in the mirror when you have just woken from one of these naps.......................not a pretty site!

Wow, I'm so glad you posted this! Recently, I took a hypothyroid self test on the internet and had a score of 53%. (with a recommendation that I see a doctor) I noticed that most of the symptoms are the same for perimenopause. Also took a diabetes self test because after eating lunch, I go into a food coma, and if I lay down, I fall asleep for about an hour. Now with it getting dark at 7:30pm, I have to force myself to stay up until 9:00. So, I'm hoping that it's all due to a drop in estrogen! All is such a mystery.
Thanks, XIII!

jem

You gals always know how to make me feel like I am not crazy......we can all snooze together? lol. Have had my thyroid checked more often that not.....its so frustrating. Oh well I guess just give in to it....and SLEEP. LOL. Thanks girls.........I feel much better now!!

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Add to it, the now darkening skies of fall and my "curl up in a ball and sleep" response really kicks up....I get sooooo bummed when I look outside at pitch dark and look at the clock and it's 8 pm....geeshhhh....I'd be out on one of my daily jaunts around the woods at that time in the summer....

Now, I just want to cuddle up and sleep....

The autumn clouds are forming over my psyche......

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... what .. did somebody say something ? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I am sleepy ALL THE TIME!!!

No motivation to do anything at all!

If I do get any motivation whatsoever, it's in little, tiny spurts. I do what little I can and then I am totally tuckered out!

I have been on high doses of iron supplements for almost 4 months. Have seen SOME improvement, but not enough.

What do I do??

Just spent $60. on Acai Berry supplements. You think that helped??

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Not one bit!!

Hi Ladies:

Tidalwaves -- last winter I had my first experience of prolonged time w/o periods (exactly 3 mos). However, during that time had "phantom periods" -- I did the exact thing you are describing, just dozing off! I blush to say I spent 80 dollars on symphony tickets & kept falling asleep thru the performance. My H even asked me if I was getting the flu!

I also have queried info about hypothyroid, tho just did have testing done, even special testing done & all neg. But I still look at symptoms & wonder....but I also can recover my energy if I don't just sit around. It seems if I get blood flowing, I am feeling nearly normal. I put in a topic called "pseudo fatigue" that describes my experience more fully...

This board has helped tremendously... I feel better knowing I am not suffering from serious illness...truly I would rather be tired & get some sleep than have insomnia. But my fatigue is not debilitating, merely vexing....hope you feel better soon....WV

Yes, WV, it seems to be a very common occurance during this time of our lives! Does it EVER end??? I see so many older ladies out running around like there is no tomorrow! NOT ME!!! Must be from my interrupted sleep at night. I'm a night person anyway, but I cannot go without sleep like in my younger days! I must be trying to make up for all the lost sleep. Who knows!!!

I'm with you. I couln't nap or fall asleep for ****. I take Klonopin at night to help me to sleep and get up also to go bathroom 1 or 2 times.