Okay, I feel like an idiot.

[xiphias]

Right.

People are mentioning how "sleeping" helps being "tired."

Yeah.

Seems to me that I should have twigged on the fact that if "sleeping" doesn't help being "tired" for me, then I'm probably defining one of the words wrong. Or at least differently than other people. Or that there's something that I should probably mention to my doctor.

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[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Sleeping usually makes me worse. So does refraining from sleep when I haven't had enough recently. It's kind of a problem.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

From this and the other post (where you mention the things you associated with "tired"), yes, talking to your doctor sounds like a really good idea. What you're experiencing and parsing as "tired" is much more extreme than (dare I use the word) normal.

But it's not idiotic. Sometimes these Blinding Flashes of the Obvious are exactly what we need to make us realize that sometimg is wrong, and it's not just a case of being lazy or stupid or (fill-in-the-self-deprecating-description).

Wishing you well as you chase this down.

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Sometimes these Blinding Flashes of the Obvious are exactly what we need to make us realize that sometimg is wrong, and it's not just a case of being lazy or stupid or (fill-in-the-self-deprecating-description).

Oh yes indeedy do. Or a case of "it's just stress," as if there could be anything "just" about it, but I digress.

Good luck on getting it figured out, Xiphias.

signed,
Been There
and had the "tired" turn out to be arthritis, fibromyalgia, a damaged and untreated hip injury from years before, and attention deficit disorder, and had the "just stress" turn out to be, well, three things that they had to operate for. Which makes me hasten to add that I hope your stuff is much smaller and easily dealt with than mine. (Still, finally knowing what it was and that I wasn't just a wuss was a big relief, and I wish that relief for you.)

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Sleeping does not necessarily help with tired. A lot of times I feel no more rested after I sleep than before -- sometimes even worse. (my doctor thinks I may have sleep apnea). Yes, I would mention this to my doctor.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

A good night's decent sleep helps. Poor sleep often makes it worse, napping can be a good thing if you can't get a good night's sleep - and often its only when you actually discuss things you assume you are experienceing the same way as other folk do that you spot the differences, glad you have realised there may be something wrong, good luck with the doctor *hugs*

[blackavar.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I assume you've checked into some of the the common things, like sleep apnea or depression, which can both result in tiredness during the day.
One of the things that really should have made me realize that I was starting to get depressed in my recent bit of fun was unreasonable weariness. I was busily thinking that I was merely working too hard.

[angelovernh.livejournal.com]

well, I am concerned by how you defined 'tired' yesterday. That is far beyond and different from what I think of as 'tired'. I think you should definitely discuss this with your doctor. Best of luck!

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Don't feel like an idiot. It is natural to assume that what you feel is normal, until informed otherwise.

It has taken me ages to learn the idiosyncracies of my body and how it responds to things like food, sleep, water and exercise... and would have taken me even longer if skipping a meal didn't have dire consequences.

Numbness and dizziness are certainly worth getting checked out by a doctor.

When I'm very exhausted I do get dizzy sometimes but I do not get numb. When I am that exhausted it can take me a few weeks of going to bed at a set time every night and waking up at a set time every morning to get myself back on track and feeling less drained.

It will help if you can figure out other things that are possibly linked to the dizziness and numbness and weakness and pain. For example, is the pain on exertion? after exertion? Are you more dizzy in the mornings or the evenings? When you're feeling numb, does moving around help or make it worse? Are your moods affected as well? Keeping a symptom diary for a week or two (but don't put off the doctor's visit for it!) might be very useful.

Also, if you can try to figure out some sort of time of onset of symptoms it may help. Think back to when you were a child. Has it always been painful to be tired? How old were you when you started getting dizzy, as opposed to just sleepy?

Good luck.

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Ian, you, like most people, generally base "normalcy" on what you yourself have personally experienced and seen. You only find out that something you've seen or experienced isn't "normal" when you find out that it don't work that way for other people.

When I was little I thought it was normal to live in suburbia, to have a yard to play in. I knew it wasn't normal to get picked on or go to Hebrew school because most kids weren't picked on and most kids didn't go to Hebrew school. My parents rarely touched in front of the kids, same with their friends, so I assumed it was fairly normal for married people to not touch all that much. And on that count I was wrong *shrug*.

For that matter, both of my grandmothers outlasted their husbands by a fair bit - one by over a decade, one by close to *3* decades. Neither, TTBOMK, ever dated after being widowed. And I assumed that was normal for a very long time. Yeah, it was a shock when I found out this was nothing even remotely resembling normal.

Just food for thought.

[navrins]

Do you consume lots of sugar? I used to, and I was sore all the time, and I thought that was normal (at least for me). As my sugar consumption dropped, I stopped feeling sore all the time.

Just a thought.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Sugar can certainly make me achey. And shaky, and dizzy, and miserable...

[acromonkee.livejournal.com]

Hey, fatique and tiredness are two different things.

[city-glitter.livejournal.com]

It sounds to mme like you have sleep apnea, but I'm not an expert. Yes, you should definitely mention this to your doctor...

Best of luck either way!