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

Have you done a sleep study?

Before I got my CPAP I had more energy on 2h of sleep than 10

I’m just going to shake my head, go back to work, finish the day, then have a drink.

Have a good one Velma and I’ll catch you somewhere else later 💚

Haha same here and you too

_You_ won’t be considered geriatric for about forty years. You might have a geriatric pregnancy, but that’s just the terminology. Like how an eighty year old can have juvenile diabetes, it doesn’t mean they’re a juvenile.

You probably haven’t yet reached your mental prime yet, but yes, you might be at a disadvantage sprinting against a 22 year old at the same activity level. That’s only really relevant at the highest levels of athletics though, and you can still be healthier than you were in your twenties.

I’m older than you are, and my sisters are more than a decade older than you are and none of us is experiencing this. None of our doctors (in three very different areas) prepared us for this. If it were normal, even if we didn’t personally experience it, wouldn’t our doctors warn us about it? All of the women in this thread are telling you that they didn’t have anything like this, isn’t that something to consider?

You might not have anything that is showing up on a test you’ve had done so far, but isn’t it worth looking further into whether you could have normal energy levels?


Even if they don’t find anything wrong, making your doctor understand that you’re not experiencing a normal level of fatigue might let them help you. I had a carpool buddy with idiopathic narcolepsy, which just means they don’t know what causes it. He was prescribed stimulants and worked with his doctor to figure out lifestyle adjustments that helped (like carpooling, so he could drive while alert in the morning, but didn’t endanger himself in the afternoon. He’s the only person I’ve ever seen be so tired that he sounded drunk while sober after a full night of sleep.

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Lmfao. That's the only time 9gag has ever managed to make me laugh!

If you have ADHD, I recommend Adderall as well

The woman’s DNA is not involved. Women are born with all the eggs they’ll ever have. By the time a girl enters puberty, her eggs have already degraded to a degree before it was even possible to use them, because that’s just how things work. That doesn’t mean she’s somehow past her prime before puberty even starts.

I think this is still in line with the other commenters, since the main point was to go through a doctor for it. The doctor could figure out if stimulants would help, as opposed to other underlying issues like anemia

I agree with literally everyone here that this is not normal aging and stimulants are not the solution.

How many 31 year olds do you know that had to start taking adderall to stay awake after sleeping 10 hours?

I'll second this. My girlfriend's 38 and very much like this. A couple months ago she did a sleep study and learned she's a narcoleptic. The good news is, she's now given time to nap at work.

This is because caffeine is addictive. It's actually caffeine that makes you feel this way. It makes you more tired long term and the caffeine starts to become less effective. Drinking caffeine brings you close to what non caffeine drinkers feel as normal, but overall you're more tired more of the time.

35 or over is clinically considered geriatric in women

"geriatric" was an old, now antiquated term for just "if you're past this age, you're at a higher risk of complications with pregnancy". It's not used anymore. (as the article you linked states)

"geriatric" is a loose term with no defined age range, but I can assure you 99.99% of people would not call you even remotely close to geriatric because you're in your 30's.

I’ve seen lots of doctors and had every hormone, vitamin, blood test etc under the sun and they’re all normal.

Then that should probably indicate to you that something else is the problem. For example, those tests don't indicate if you're getting enough physical activity, if you're eating too many 'processed' ingredients known to cause complications in high quantities without directly affecting vitamin levels, if you have a sleep disorder, if you're having too much caffeine, if you're breathing in air pollutants, if you have any number of genetic disorders, if you have certain damage to your organs, etc.

Stimulants are good.

Talk to a psychiatrist. If they think it would be good for your situation, then it is probably good. Until you do that, you have no clue if it will help you or hurt you. It could improve your situation, or it could make you forget to eat, make your sleeping worse, give you worse brain fog, withdrawal symptoms, extreme anxiety, or even a heart attack.

Stimulants are controlled substances for a reason. Please, talk to a health professional qualified to issue prescriptions for stimulants, specifically about the possibility of stimulants for your particular issues. (i.e. don't just ask for tests, suggest the option. Doctors are willing to consider options when presented with them by the patient saying they want it, especially since a big barrier to people improving their health is often unwillingness to participate in a given habit or schedule of meds)

Oh, and consider a sleep study. That can catch many things that won't show up on things like blood tests, and is very, very, VERY relevant to your specific symptoms.

Many conditions are never identifiable through blood, nutrient, or physical analysis of your body via scans and tests, and are only identified through symptoms, trial and error with different medications and known coping techniques, identifying changes after altering behaviors, etc.

The symptoms you are having are not normal or to be expected, they are clearly very impactful to your life, and the fact more basic tests like blood/vitamin tests haven't identified an obvious cause signals you could possibly have a major underlying condition that could potentially be extremely serious.

Please, talk to a psychiatrist if you want to see if alternative stimulants could help, and get a sleep study done to understand how your body handles it and provide actual insight to your doctors.

Sounds like she has cancer or needs to are a doctor. If I've learned anything is that sleeping 10 hours is an indicator of so many bad things

I missed that detail, valid

Caffeine is drug and like all drugs you start to become immune and start needed more. For those of us in cannabis we have what is called a tea break. A tea break is when you stop using your drugs for a month or two to reset your drug tolerance. I would suggest not using caffeine for at least a month and see if that helps before having to go to a doctor if you are in the US.