How do you stop being tired?

[mousme]

Adulthood seems to just be an endless state of tiredness punctuated by sleep. I cannot say that I enjoy or recommend it.

For the most part I have been really careful about sleep, especially when I was working shifts and by necessity was getting a lot less sleep and less quality sleep, so I was very protective of the sleep I was getting at the time

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[sirena73]

I know I'm just a person on the internet so take my un-asked for advice with a handful of salt, but I think you should make a doctor appointment and not wait for the sleep study. That level of unrelenting fatigue could be a warning sign of something else going on, so please get checked out soon. <3

[mousme]

Oh, no, I agree with you. I have been to my new doctor (my old, excellent doctor got burned out by the pandemic and left medicine entirely) and she is unfortunately firmly in the "it's normal to be tired because you're a middle aged woman and there's nothing we can try, but sure, I'll send in a request for a sleep study, I guess," camp.

Out of desperation I have made an appointment with a naturopath at the end of this month, because they're allowed to order blood tests and the like to check hormone levels and other things. I am not usually a seeker of alternative medicines, but right now conventional medicine is shrugging at me and refusing to try, so alternative it is.