I don’t feel non-drugged until well after 6 PM. I’m sleeping very well. I even tried caffeine pills and even caffeine doesn’t budge the “just come to under general anesthesia” feeling. I’ve been under before, and that retch-y feeling is the same. People have also noticed that I’m moving slowly. I don’t drink alcohol, so this isn’t a hangover. It started rather gradually but is getting worse.

Someone suggested it could be low b12, but I’ve been having the sublingual spray for months and there’s no improvement.

Am I just getting old and this is something I’m gonna have to put up with for the rest of my life?

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    2 days ago

    Keep trying with your doctor, get another doctor if you need to. Doctors, even female doctors, are notorious for dismissing women’s health complaints.

    • fartographer@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 day ago

      I’ve had to escort my wife to an embarrassing number of doctor’s appointments just so they’d take her symptoms seriously. Just her symptoms, not even her, the patient! Those are the appointments where I almost always end up impatiently telling the doctor, “don’t tell me, tell her,” or, “don’t ask me, ask her! She’s the patient,” because they’ll try to talk to me the whole time.

      Here’s the same thing I tell my wife: blood tests are literally the least a doctor can do while still technically treating you. If your doctor is not putting their hands on you, thinking for more than a few seconds before responding, looking up your symptoms, suggesting specialists, or naming possible treatments to try out, then they’re not really listening to you. If your doctor isn’t listening to you or can’t think of a cause, ask to see a specialist.

      /rant

      Also, if you trust that your doctor is listening to you and is trying their best, then consider seeing a physical therapist, performing a sleep study, and a neurologist. I’d start with the PT and go somewhere that is cool with doing general assessments rather than requiring doctor’s orders. They might even refer you to a neurologist. Schedule your sleep study and just follow through with that. If your insurance doesn’t cover sleep studies, online CPAP companies will often roll the cost of your sleep study into your CPAP.