Is this healthy? Or is it not normal?

[Anonymous]

For about a month now I'm feeling so tired and i sleep all the time. I go to bed at 7pm and wake up at 3pm i get to exhausted and i don't know why i thought that it may be lack of iron so i took iron pills i now go to bed at 8pm and wake up at 1:30pm so it helped somewhat. I feel like I'm beyond tired and i fall asleep without knowing it. I'm healthy i had a Dr appointment the other day and they couldn't find anything wrong that can cause this. I am 23 years old a mother of two babies I'm scared has this happened to anyone? Is it a disorder? Please any ideas help my doctor is obviously stupid

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

Too much sleep. You're not awake enough, eating enough, active enough to trigger your body into maintaining a fair amount of gylcogen in the blood. The result is you feel groggy all the time. Get your adrenaline going a couple times throughout the day, and set your alarm clock and force yourself to wake up no longer than 8 hours.. do it a couple days and your daily energy will eventually restore. Ironically sleeping too much makes us more sleepy, and the cure to the sleepiness is to sleep less.

It's called oversleeping. Aside from all the stuff you neglect to do, it's relatively harmless and easily fixed. Again, just force yourself to sleep less and be active a couple days and it goes right away.

And yes it's normal. We all have things that come up in life that make us crash and oversleep and that oversleeping leads to more and etc.. til we forcefully break the trend because we have to go do this or that. E. g. I work Fri-Sun 12 hour shifts, so come Sunday I have tendency to stay up until I crash and sleep 12+ hours... then I either nip it the butt the next day, or I'm tired all week until Friday when I'm forced to be awake longer.

[Asker]

Thank you that's good to know

[gash_hound]

eat whole foods. go vegan. you'll have insaine energy and great health totally free of disease into old age.

low evergy is a symptom of endless conditions, Dr's will rarely every know whats wrong unless its stage 3 cancer, aids or some other serious thing. you could have lyme disease, lupus and 800 other things that I won't list :)

good luck

[jmr2191]

A sleep disorder is possible. See a pulmonologist or neurologist for a sleep study and an MSLT to rule anything respiratory or brain-related cause.