I here you!!! I used to be able to get up early in the morning, do my pet sitting then go to the office for over 8 hours and then do more pet sitting at night. Now i can barely have enough energy just to do my pet sitting. I have not been back to the office since May. When will all this pass and we all start to feel good again!!!!!!!

It's very frustrating to hear that this can last so many years. I am single with 3 kids and a grandchild so I have no choice but to work. I have never gotten child support. I just keep plugging away with the hopes that I will get thru this quickly.

I feel ya completely; but I never thought that what doctors always scream about excercising to give you energy was true.Guess what? It does help...I've been walking for the last six months - started slow, couldn't do more than 15 minutes.Worked up to 2 miles in about 30-35 minutes.Started lifting weights,dropping pounds,eating better. Have more energy, but still wake up with the damn sweats!!Ugh!

Kate, you are so right. I just started to exercise about a month ago, and like you I did just a little bit at a time, but the more I do, the better I feel! I still get tired, but I do notice a difference. I really had to push myself at first, but if you do it everyday your going to feel better. Really!!!! Smile

I just finished my undergrad last year and at that time I used to believe that sleep was overrated. Now I can't sleep to save my life and I'm kinda glad I got all that practice at functioning as an insomniac...ok, functioning may be a relative term, but at least I can make it from point A to point B as a zombie.

I feel like a slug most of the time. I am fortunate that I do not work outside the home. But I get so tired that I have to sit down when doing the daily chores. I used to be a tornado now I am just a slight wind. I don't know if exercise will work for me I walk everyday with the dog and still don't feel I have the umph to do much around the house. It doesn't last anyway with 4 kids and 4 pets.

Boy do I know how you feel. I have to take a nap about 2-3 o'clock everyday. I use to be able to get up at 6:30 am, get my boys together for school, take younger son to school and pick up (I work at home), clean house, do laundry, etc. Now the fatigue gets me most days. I have been exercising about three times a week, taking vitamins, iron pills, bellydancing classes, swimming classes just to stay active, but the fatigue hits me and out I go. Let's not talk about the night sweats and lack of interest in sex. Thank God my husband is understanding, but sometimes I just go with the flow when having sex within him. Not as much enjoyable because I am so tired. This too shall pass as they say. DebbT.

I feel your fatigue. Granted I have Fibromialgia, but still I haven't felt this kind of exhaustion since I was pregnant. And it really started after the hysterectomy. I am a stay at home mom of a kindergardener and a 3 yr old. It is fatiguing in itself. But I am having trouble keeping up with the common everyday things that us as stay at home wives are suppose to do as our job. My husband just wants a hot home made meal ( I cook about once a week now.) Excersice litterally puts me down for two or three days due to the fibro. I can't think of anything else but a well balanced diet.
Good luck! God Bless you all!

This is funny just this morning I told myself that when I got on the computer today I was going to look to see if anyone had written about fatigue. I used to be the Wife and Mother that every man and child would dream of but now FORGET IT! I used to wake up at 4:45 to be at work by 7:00 then come home pick up the kids from daycare cook dinner, clean the house, workout for an hour, and then get the kids bathed and ready for bed. Before I went to bed I had to get everyone ready for the next day with clothes lunches etc. Now cup of soup, white rice and bean and cheese burritos if their lucky. wrinkled clothes for school and they are now eating in the cafeteria wether they like it or not. I wake up at 6:15 and run out of the house I do my hair and make-up there if everyone is lucky. My husband has been living off of Subway $5 sandwiches for about 6 mo. now he said he is going to be able to take Jareds place on the commercials. My house is another story. I used to have OCD when it came to my house now I have WGAS (WHO GIVES A SHIT) about it. I can honestly say I have made a 98 degree turn for the worst. I used to hate naps because I would wake up feeling like I missed out on something but now my eyes will shut when ever they get a chance. I feel as if I have narcolepsy.
Anyways girls there has to be a light at the end of the tunnel. What's cool is when we are feeling better and we do get our energy back we can still play sick so everyone will still help us to get things done. Then we can enjoy the me time and actually do something for ourselves.

Good Night!
Desiree'

Feeling tired all the time is almost worst than the hot flashes, at least I know they only last a few seconds and I can sit in front of the fan when I am home, but the fatique doesn't go away. I am taking vitamins and iron, I get light headed just walking up the stairs. I did notice an improvement when I was exercising guess I will try walking again when the weather cools off, I am in Florida and I can't stand the heat during the summer.

I've always had this problem -- well at the very least since I started having periods many years ago. It's gotten worse in the past year. I am a tutor at a private school and I have actually fallen asleep while teaching! The other day I fell asleep at my daughter's church. My husband asked me how I could fall asleep when the minister was so loud. I had no answer to that. I just had a sleep study done and I'll find out the results next week. I still think many of my recent health problems are periomenopause related. Even though blood tests show I'm in periomenopause, the doctors say I should not go on hormones. My neurologist even told me that going on hormones would not help my sleep problems. I would love to have more energy to do things in life, especially the required ones.

Margo