I’m Drained All The Time. Advice/tips Please?
I feel drained all the time. advice/tips please?
I’m 26 years old.
I’ve quit the smokes and the weed (and dabbling in speed&coke) a dozen times in the last 3 years. About a month after quitting I’ve experienced a huge peak in energy levels. I’ve quit for the final time in the new year but feel as sluggish as I did when I was up to no good.
My diet is perfect. I eat a wide and varied amount of the best and most nutritious foods. Organic and locally sourced as far as is practical. I drink rarely. I exercise from time to time but not as much as I used to because of the low energy levels and corresponding lack of motivation.
I’m very tall, slim and lean.
I work about 70 hours per week, but my work is not physically demanding at all. It is not even that mentally demanding most of the time. I often work through the night so I get little sun, if any in the week, seeing as the days are very short here and outside of summer there is almost always complete cloud cover. (I have just started taking a Vitamin D supplement)
I have a history of thyroid problems in my family. My sister has an overactive gland, my mother an under. The men in my family have a history of heart, kidney and liver disease but this is mostly alcohol related.
I developed ecxema at 21 and it has stayed on my elbows and flares up occasionally in patches elsewhere.
I will soon go to a doctor for a full medical before you suggest it, but what I’m looking for is some cheap advice before hand like… oh I don’t know,
eat a high GI diet,
take a certain type of suppplement (I’m not crazy about these and would like my diet to be as natural as is possible)
do a certain type of exercise
read a certain book
train my mind in some manner
take up meditation
or yoga
Or tell me briefly how the above affected your energy levels.
Any help would be appreciated folks as this is beginning to depress me and I was a fairly happy-go-lucky guy all my life. Am I just getting old???!?
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I take sublingual trivita vitamin b12 b6 folic acid. it is like taking a b12 shot but without the shot. You should take a multi vitamin every day also. I take a few other vitamins also but B is the main one for energy. You could just take a vitamin b complex for energy but this Trivita sublingual has been amazing for me. You are young. Another thing that gives energy is eating green vegetables every day and complex carbyhydrates versus white flours. Have your blood sugar checked.
I would consider “mental” fatigue, or simple boredom with life, as primary factors. You need to get more variety in your life and do something you enjoy.
Life is short. Enjoy the ride anyway you can!
I am prone to anemia…which makes me sooo tired, no matter how much rest I get. Try taking some iron pills. They may make you a little nauseous at first, so take at night w/ a glass of orange juice (or something else with vitamin C).
Dont leak
THYROID.
I just found out I was hypothyroid, way bad. I was so tired I could barely make it thru a day. Just dead tired exhausted ALL THE TIME. found out about the TSH while checking for lipids. Night and day after being on Synthroid 2 wks. Go to doc. I thought I was just just getting old, but thought if I felt like this at 54 I didn’t wanna live to 60. GO SEE MD!
Weed definitely affected my energy levels… I smoked it at least 2 times a week for the past 2-3 years and then for about the last 8 months I smoked it like everyday, and then for about 4 months I smoked it all day everyday. So I finally stopped about ehhh 4 months ago… and it took a while for my energy to come back but it has.
I suggest WORKING OUT I know you’re tired but honestly you’ll feel a lot better after you do it, I know I always do.
And yoga or pilates will help a ton along with just lifting weights and jogging or biking.
And maybe instead of just working out at a gym, go for a really nice hike or bike ride because it feels great to be out in the fresh air and will also give you energy!!
Good luck!!