Have a question!!!

Before you had your surgery did anyone have low energy even if they took vitamins?  I take a multi vitamin and a super b-complex every day.  And I had update blood work done a couple months ago and they said nothing was wrong there.  But I still have no energy to do hardly anything.  And it sucks cause it makes me sometimes feel like a bad mom cause I don't have energy to do things with my daughter. 

Thanks

Vickie

vickie,

I was always taking naps during the afternoon cause I was so tired.  I had no energy to do nothing , couldnt get motivated to do nothing and my blood work was excellent.

In fact my doc said I had the most healthiest blood work he has ever seen for me being 348 pounds my blood work was perfect in everything .

When I started to eat right, exercise , and so far have lost 40 pounds I can tell a huge huge difference .

Im not taking naps no more.  I go to bed around midnight and Im back up around 8 the next morning .

Thanks so much!!! 

Any chance it could be depression?  I was having a really hard time with depression a few months ago, actually it was for a total of maybe 6 months started mild but was very bad towards the end.  It turned out to be a combination of my birth control (Mirena) and a few other factors in my life.  My family would talk to me on the phone and tell me they were worried about me and my friends said I did not seem like the same person.  I had no energy, no motivation, no desire to do anything.  My doctor was going to put me on anti depressants but I was afraid to, my husband was deployed and I needed to take care of my kids.  For awhile I just felt so lost and one day I realized that I needed something to change.  When I went in to have my Mirena removed my doctor was very concerned with me, she had me promise not to hurt myself and to call if I needed anything.  She did not think it was Mirena that was causing the problem but felt like she needed to take it out if I insisted.  I have no family here (hubby is military) so I couldn't ask anyone for help.  I didn't realize it was as bad as it was.  I had my mirena removed and within 2 days I was doing better, within 3 I felt like I it was the first time I had ever seen light or smiled.  I had vicious migraines, insomnia, high bp and swelling, a week after it was removed everything was closer to normal again.  I saw my doctor a week later and she said I seemed different, she said she noticed the change in me right away and couldn't believe it.  Ive seen her several times since and she comments everytime on how healthy I look compared to before.  She never believed that Mirena could react that way, I guess it was releasing way too much hormones and causing all kinds of bad symptoms.  I have more energy now and motivation to do things that before seemed pointless.  I never thought I was depressed until a friend pointed it out and told me to see my doctor, I decided it was worth a shot and Im so glad I did.

I am not depressed but I do have BPD(borderline personality disorder) though.  But I have had that forever but here lately my energy level keeps goin down down.  I don't know if my weight is due to lack of it or not.  

Vickie - Any chance you might have Fibromyalgia - a chronic pain and fatigue syndrome?  There is a forum on here for that.  Unfortunately, I was diagnosed with this condition 21 years ago.

Turtle - You sound like you have Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome (thick blood), like I do.  I had migraines and a brief round of hormones brought on blood clots in my lungs.  Might be worth checking into. 

Good luck to you both.

Carla- I don't think I have that cause I am not in any pain just no energy. 

When you say that you had bloodwork and 'they said nothing was wrong' -- what EXACTLY did they test for?

Did they do a Vit D panel, thyroid, Vit K, Potassium, Iron/Ferritin--????

A deficiency in any of these can be a cause of fatigue.

Most doctors do a CBC --- which does not generally include a nutritional panel.
If you don't have copies of your own bloodwork, call and ask them to mail you a copy (or go by and pick one up) --- keep your own medical records.

Vit D 3 has a 'normal range' of 30 - 100, but most docs now want it to be above 80 -- so if yours ws 31 it would be considered 'normal' by the range, but still very, very (too) low.

Don't remember what all the checked for but I know it is what most drs have you get blood work for though. I will call Monday and asks for a copy of it.   

 I also found my self very tired before ...

I think that was from sleep apnea... Apparently I had that real bad before... After I had my sleep study and got a cpap machine, I was no longer tired during the day....    
Now I do not use the machine... and I am fine