Is it normal i'm exhausted all the time in my twenties?

Every day, I feel like my arms and legs are weights, my eyes burn and I struggle to keep them open 24/7, I have severe migraines, my neck always aches, my back always aches. My sides are always in serious pain, my nose is always stuffed up, I get 4 hours of sleep ever night, my brain is fogged (feels like I can't think straight, I forget my friends and coworkers names etc).

IIN? I went to three doctors. One diagnosed me with hypothyroidism and I am on a high dose but actually started feeling worse even when I went to check again and my thyroid is normal, my other doctor said I had insomnia and that I just need more sleep but I wake up from all the pain, how is that insomnia? I told her this and she said it might be my bed, I bought another bed, It did nothing. The third doctor says I have adrenal burnout (he's holistic), tells me I should supplement and that he can monitor my diet.

IIN?

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  • shuggy-chan

    it can be alot of things, from stress and over worked. To diet (food allergy and intolerance included) work out habits.

    Even your bed if it isnt comfortable to you makes you restless in your sleep.

    more detail would be needed to try to begin to help

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  • clevelandashkenaziatheist

    Don't go to holistic doctors. Science is too important here. Go to a high powered research hospital. Keep seeing different doctors until someone knows or cares how to treat you the right way. Don't just medicate yourself or diagnose yourself. Find an expert. Not all doctors are expert. I work with, am related to, and am friends with a lot of doctors, and they usually don't know or don't care.

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    • Thanks and that's true. Most doctors I've seen all juts want to write me a prescription for anti depressants or give me a high dose of sleeping pills but that's not smart. I do feel that this holistic doctor is my best bet so far but it's scary when you don't know for sure. The holistic Dr I'm seeing now is looking into all things and wants me to do a thorough blood test, saliva test and more to see possible chemical/hormone imbalances in my system. The reason I decided to see the one now is from a recommendation of a friend. A while back, she had headaches all the time for several years and he went through everything and found out what she had, put her on supplements, told her to eat less of this, more of this and her headaches disappeared in a month.

      But yeah, I'll have to keep trying to find more doctors that seem to care as they are certainly hard to come by. They just want a simple solution of taking lab made pills that are completely unhealthy for the body anyway and probably do more harm than good.

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    • peaceandlovebro

      Don't tell her not to go to holistic.

      My brother had fatigue all the time, not as bad as the OP, I'm sure but he had it for a while. He quit his job because of it and just used his savings to live for several months. All his regular doctors said it must be depression but he didn't believe that as he said he wasn't depressed.

      He went to a holistic Dr as a last resort and he monitored his food intake/diet and gave him a saliva test. His saliva showed his adrenals (energy organ) were low and he put him on raw adrenal for just two months and my brother slowly started getting better. It wasn't a placebo effect either as my brother kept saying he was still fatigued for the first two weeks and told me he didn't believe this would cure him but it did. My aunt also saw a holistic Dr for her diabetes and he completely reversed it and after 9 years of having diabetes, she no longer has it.

      Most holistic Dr's get to the bottom of it and treat the cause rather than the typical doctor treating just the symptoms. They just want to write prescriptions.

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  • Rusted

    You sound a lot like me up until recently.
    Ever since middle school I've had problems staying awake during the day, regardless of how much sleep I've had. It has affected my grades in college, which doesn't help my mental state since this makes me feel horrible. I've had trouble with memory and have generalized anxiety and depression.

    I surfed the internet for possible causes, which we all know is a bad idea. I went to a number of doctors over the years for various health problems: insomnia (since childhood), headaches, GI problems, and concentration issues to name a few. I can't tell you how many times my thyroid an iron levels have been checked.
    To cut this short, here is what I have discovered in the last 8 months or so:

    - I have sleep apnea. I did a sleep study at a local hospital for one night and found out that I stop breathing at times during my sleep. A CPAP machine has drastically improved my energy levels during the day. SA is often associated with obesity, but that's actually not the case for most people. Mine is due to the fact that my air passage and mouth are smaller than they should be.

    - I have ADHD (I suspected this in high school but waited until my last year in college to check it out; bad idea). I believe this is what has caused my anxiety and depression, which tend to make a person exhausted.

    - My back was misaligned. I started to take Vyvanse for ADHD, which allowed me to sit still and study for hours at a time (which I had never been able to do). However, this started causing back pain and, eventually, neck pain. My friend suggested I see a chiropractor, as this helped her with her headaches. After a full examination we found that 8 of my vertebrae were misaligned (subluxation is the term) and putting pressure on a number of discs (C1, C2, C4, C5, T5, T8, L4, and L5 were all the ones that had, over the years, been twisted out of place). Also, my left hip was 6 mm lower than my right hip (1 mm is acceptable, but a difference greater than this causes problems with posture, walking, running, etc.).

    I was told by my chiropractor that back and neck pain are usually the last symptom of subluxation, but people don't think to see a chiropractor until this point. HERE is the reason why subluxation is a problem: nerves travel through the spinal cord and exit through vertebrae to various parts of the body and are responsible for keeping our bodies functioning properly. When the spine becomes misaligned (as it does over time for everybody) nerves get pinched. For me, the nerves that exited through the vertebrae that were out of place led to specific parts of my body that were causing me trouble.

    So, when a nerve gets pinched it is unable to function properly between the brain and its destination in the body. For example, when nerves that lead to the intestines are stressed/pinched you will eventually have noticeable problems (bowel movements, bloating, cramping, etc.).

    Over the past few months I have received treatment to realign my spine and strengthen my back, neck, shoulder, and hip muscles (by strengthening muscles along the spine you will keep your spine in proper position). I have felt so much better recently because of this. I can finally stay awake during the day and am getting better at focusing. I plan to continue going to a chiropractor at least twice a year from now on for an adjustment. Regular adjustments will prevent excessive misalignment.

    TLDR: Go to a chiropractor for a full exam, including x-rays, to determine if subluxation of your spine is causing problems elsewhere in your body.

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  • Karmasbitch

    Before you do anything, PLEASE remember to zip your trousers up. It embarrassing to forget

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  • imadragon

    My first guess would be stress, depression or something else, but I am not a professional. You are the one that would know best, since the doctors didn't help, maybe you could read about different things on medical websites and then talk to a doctor if there is something you suspect it might be.

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