I sleep 10 hours a night but still need to nap constantly during the day. Even 400 mg of caffeine doesn’t buzz me, it just makes me feel 70% close to my normal, high energy 20s self. My daytime fatigue is so severe I’ve been mistaken for being drunk (even though I don’t drink), and I experience a dream like brain fog around friends unless I use caffeine pills to seem present.
I know this is part of normal aging for a woman in her 30s, but it’s frustrating to constantly need naps when I haven’t even done anything. Sometimes you just have to biohack. Still, I feel a bit jealous of how men age differently and seem to keep loads of energy.
I know this is part of normal aging for a woman in her 30s
Is it?? I’m not saying you don’t lose energy as you age, but what you’re describing sounds closer to a medical problem than the norm. If you’ve had conversations with your doctor and had bloodwork done then it might be normal for you, but if you haven’t checked for vitamin deficiencies you might want to. I felt similarly shit when my vitamin D was through the floor.
It’s normal! I’ve been checked up, I’m not overweight, all my bloods are fine.
Normal for you I guess, unfortunately, but no-one else.
Drinking warm water in the morning might be a nice start to the day. Also, if you’re not consistent with your caffeine, you go through withdrawal symptoms that sound a lot like that.
Get a second opinion, please. Doctors will often not really believe women when we communicate our symptoms.
Not saying it will definitely help, but if you’re not even feeling it the caffeine dependency might actually be making you feel worse rather than better
I don’t have caffeine all the time. I only take it when I’m going to go out with friends or with my boyfriend so I’m fully lucid. I might end up switching to Adderall since I’ve heard that’s a lot stronger than caffeine is.
Please, don’t. If you don’t have a direct doctor’s recommendation, any “I think I will start using drugs because I think I will feel better” is just wrong
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If you sleep 10 hour each night and still feel tired, it’s time to visit a doctor before you end up in the forever box.
I’m 43 and I’d say that there is definitely not normal. You might want to go see a doctor.
My daytime fatigue is so severe I’ve been mistaken for being drunk (even though I don’t drink), and I experience a dream like brain fog around friends unless I use caffeine pills to seem present.
As an older woman, this is not normal. Please see a doctor!!
I have an autoimmune disease that comes with chronic fatigue. I understand the struggles. This is far beyond normal.
This reads like undiagnosed sleep apnea to me. You should really talk to your doctor about getting a sleep study done. You don’t need to be overweight or anything to be affected by sleep apnea and it can get worse as one gets older. I hope it’s nothing too serious/just some fatigue!
What are your consumption habits, i.e. when are you drinking your caffeine? The bioactive halflife of caffeine is about 6-8 hours, so it’s in your system affecting your mind and body long after the caffeine buzz goes away. My personal rule of thumb is all the caffeine I want before noon, but a hard cutoff at 1pm
I take my caffeine pills about an hour before I’m due to go out. Outings can be 8ish hours, but even when the caffeine is at peak amounts an hour after I take them they don’t make me feel buzzed or hyper, just sort of close to normal. And this is at 400 mg.
If you’re taking 400mg at noon, you’ll have 200mg in your system at 6pm, and 100mg at midnight. 100mg+ in my system by bedtime will negatively and noticeably affect my sleep in those situations. You could be exhausted due to the time you’re consuming caffeine
