Ah, the joys of being a woman in her early thirties!

Women doctors also disbelieve women patients. It took 4 years and upwards of 20 different doctors for me to get my diagnosis.

Being sleepy to the point of acting drunk is the most concerning that I read from your description. That's really what made me reach out. Just concerned for you!

Being sleepy to the point of acting drunk is not a normal older woman thing. It simply isn't. I'm sorry.

Also jesus christ. Early 30s IS your prime. Or at least not so far from your prime that you should be resigned to feeling this way forever.

LOL 30's is not older woman. Girl get help. Like honestly. Everyone here is telling you that you aren't normal and you are either lying to yourself or delusional (oh, it's both).

Have you had a sleep study? Sleep apnea can cause literally everything you're saying. The way you're feeling is not normal or healthy at all. I'm 30, my wife is 29. She's chronically ill with a connective tissue disorder, is constantly in pain, and suffers from fatigue and brain fog and she doesn't even feel like that every day, nor does she get so exhausted she seems drunk

This is not OK. My Sister in Christ, please seek a medical professional.

Male here, so might not be applicable: I felt like you described about a year ago. That was shortly before the big crash. I don't like the word burnout, but two naps per day, three to five cups of coffee and loads of sugar just to function is a good indicator your tanks are empty and you are running on fumes and stress alone. Its been a year and slowly reducing sugar and getting off caffeine for a month let me feel the deep tiredness again. I'm slowly gaining back the ability to even sleep through the night. If you can, reduce stress, keep sleeping as much as you can and cut off caffeine slowly. I stopped cold Turkey and it gave me a migrante so hard I nearly called an ambulance. What you describe is not normal and please take care of you.

Also way back in reddit times, there was a poster that had somediseases they only found because he started to nap constantly. I don't remember the details but I thought I might have that. 9 months of reduced work and stress and lots of sleep, I'm slowly coming back to my senses.

Yeah, I’m with Velma here. This is absolutely not normal for women in our 30s. I’m older than you and it sounds like I have a lot more energy than you.

I’m 42 and sleep 9pm-4am, drink a cup of coffee in the morning, one more just after lunch (because I love coffee), and I never need a nap. Even on days that I’m highly active, no naps. When my partner didn’t realize he was brewing decaf for a week, I didn’t get abnormally tired, just minor caffeine withdrawals. I honestly don’t think I’ve taken a nap since my late 20s when I was working overnight shifts.

Maybe consider a device that monitors your sleep. I do have some restless nights and my Apple Watch catches it. Usually I just take a melatonin the next night and I sleep like a baby.

It sounds more like all those doctors have wasted your time. Find one that actually cares enough to fix whatever is wrong with you because I promise, just like every other person on this post, what you are experiencing is not normal for the vast majority of women.

Just like I’m getting old and aren’t that far off from being considered geriatric for a woman. (I’m 31, so a little under 4 years off)

That's for pregnancy, please be for real.

Get a real sleep study done, not just your boyfriend watching you. It has nothing to do with aging slower, but if you are so tired you get mistaken for drunk after a full nights sleep, there is absolutely something going on that you need to look into.

You can have all the normal blood tests in the world and that doesn’t mean there isn’t something wrong. It took a couple years of blood tests and scans coming out normal for doctors to find out it was cancer causing my dad’s skin rashes, they only found it because of a chest x-ray for something entirely unrelated.

In the medical world, a geriatric pregnancy is an old term that was used to describe a pregnancy in a person over the age of 35. Nowadays, doctors use the term advanced maternal age (AMA) instead.

The pregnancy was called geriatric, not the woman. What you describe is not normal. Every women over 60 I personally know, sleeps less and is less tired than you seem to be. You may not be infected with something, but this is not normal, and if you are annoyed by it, you should do something about it.

I hate to say it, but this post and all the comments from OP reads very much as a man pretending to be woman to poke fun at aging women and call us old in our 30s.

Like, it doesn’t make sense. Velma PLEASE MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!!! 💚

Early thirties is not old.

Still, I feel a bit jealous of how men age differently and seem to keep loads of energy.

It’s this part at the end that really caught my eye and made me think that way. Like what ?!?!

And like…that’s the only posts this account has. It’s all “hahaha I’m an old woman”

?!?!??