Hi Mike,
Sorry if you have mentioned it and I missed it but have you had your a thyroid function checked? I have an under active Thyroid and feel like you very very often, have just had my Levothyroxine increased.
Hello Chis,
I was tested last year for throid with a blood test and was ok.
I can sympathise, I find it can come on very suddenly and it a feeling of exhaustion, perhaps your GP can give your bloods an MOT?
Good idea, the next month or in january I'll have to make the annual test with choleserol, transamynase and so on - I'll talk about this with my GP and see what exams should be done.
As for living alone, I don't but do suffer from Depression and Anxiety, some days don't want to do anything, however, even if I get out for a bit of fresh air and a little walk, even if just up road and back I find it does wake me up a lot and also peps me up generally, of course, I don't know whether you are able.
I normally go walking to work and to make errands, and I like very much the return journey from work, a bit less the walk to go to the office. By the way in the office on these days the heating system is out of control and the temperature in the office is 29 C and nobody can figure why, I suppose that the super complex computer-controlled system of temperature control is designed badly and sensor are malfunctioning and are too few. I suppose that high temperature in winter is not a good thing.
It's easier said than done when you feel low and tired though. As for the sleeping, sounds daft but is your bedroom too hot or too cold?
The temperature when I go to sleep is around 20 C and in the morning before the heating start is on the 18 C range, feels ok.
I have slept better since I had a cooler room and got blackout linings for the curtains, I also cut out evening drinks after 9pm so I hopefully don't have to get up at all, or only once during the night for the loo.
My bedroom has wooden panels that shuts the window, but unfortunately I live in a noisy place, with tram lines and an underground train track where freight train are travelling in the night, I could feel the vibrations. Even now and then some idiot driving too fast crashes on the pillars in the middle of the road, and the siren of the ambulnce wakes me up.
The problem is that I wake up early even when I'm at the house in the country, where the only noises are barking dogs.
I've think also the problem is sleep deprivation that self sustains.
I hope you manage to find some help. If you are very low, talking therapies can help too, I referred myself rather than go through GP and I am a very private person, but was able to have telephone sessions based on CBT for my low mood and it really helped.
Take care, people on here are very supportive and it's often easier to say how you feel than to family or friends.
I'm writig here because I find people here (and aldo on DUK) very supportive because being all diabetics we all know the beast. Having the anonimity of a screen and a keyboard is really useful, and I found in the '90 that sometimes keyboard a screen could help to express better the problems one has.
With friends, I have a small problem, with the new tecnology I find a bit difficult making an old fashioned telepone call to chat. When I call my elderly relatives they're quite happy to hear me and we make some small talk. With friend of my age is really difficult, even if I'm sure they remember payphones and rotary phones.
Mike