This post is almost 11 years old now, so I feel like it’s time for an update:
I think people should know that if you feel like this update, especially if you feel you’ve gone from the first post to the second over time, you should try to get a sleep study and an ENT assessment. conditions that impare your ability to breathe while sleeping are far more common than many people realize, and you will not feel rested after sleep unless you get enough oxygen at night. sleep apnea is the one people know, but there’s all kinds of ways your airways might be partially obstructed enough to ruin your sleep quality. if you constantly feel tired and like sleep barely helps anything, please put sleep issues high on your list of conditions to get checked for. the fixes can sometimes be extremely simple, and the long term risks of leaving an issue like that unaddressed include chronic damage to basically anything in your body that’s supposed to be repaired during sleep, as well as a risk of silently suffocating to death in your sleep with the more severe conditions.
Sincerely, thank you for this addition, it’s an excellent point and many people could absolutely benefit from undergoing a sleep study!
However! I literally have a CPAP machine. This is not about that. :’)
yeah, it's rarely the whole picture, but I have so many friends who spend almost a decade chasing down various leads for fatigue causes and feeling like whatever progress they made eventually came undone, only for addressing their sleep issues to be what made other things stick. I'm quite familiar with the endless mess of chronic fatigue causes, and it seems like sleep issues make basically all of them worse and harder to treat. I'm sorry to hear that it's still so bad for you, may we all have the circumstances to get better be forthcoming, shit's hard enough to deal with before drowning in fatigue.
