Feeling exhausted

I'm the same. My GP thinks is due to arthritic pain and pain medication
I'm retiring from work this Friday as just can't do it anymore

I'm sure your GP will do blood tests

Enjoy your retirement Ziggy and hope you get sorted.

Under active thyroid can cause that, also type 2 diabetes. Best get checked out

Do get it checked out LaCrepuscule.
I ended up with tablets for under active thyroid and B12 medication.

Enjoy your retirement ZIGGY62

I’m feel exactly the same, especially over the last couple of weeks, sleep well but sitting here feel totally wiped out
I had a blood test about five weeks ago and everything was normal apparently 🤷‍♀️

Is it our age? I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t tired. My life is busier than my mum’s was in mid seventies. Do we do too much

Personally I'm wondering if I seem to need too much sleep currently might be because acid reflux has been playing up badly for a while and I suspect it might be disturbing my sleep (unbeknown to me). Working on it - just managed to find a decent (alternative) health book I think finally on it and so maybe I can get a good handle on it now. So maybe an illness is disturbing your sleep?

I think stress might be another factor - I keep working and working at removing the causes of stress but remove a couple and up pops another one and I feel mentally tired at forever having to deal with "Issues" - rather than just getting on with my life. My current house took so long to renovate too (11 years!!!!!!!!!) and a lot of that was not down to me. Trying to remind myself that the "bad neighbour" issues I've had since moving here seem to be substantially resolved finally and hopefully life will be "peaceful" now at last. So maybe it's an ongoing stress situation or a stress situation you've perhaps got a handle on at last - but it is wearing whilst dealing with it?

Get checked out it could be a number of things some serious some not so serious you re still young and should still be running around if you have no underlying health problems It could be as simple as a vitamin deficiency but it could b e a number of other things some more serious so get a good check up

It could be a number of things as suggested above. But, just a thought, have you enough interesting things to occupy yourself? I don't mean housework. I find if my mind is not stretched in some way I get easily bored and then tired. Like you, I felt listless some time back but blood tests revealed nothing. I did wonder if I had had a virus of some kind. So did the doctor.

Yes a GP checkup. Hopefully a full blood count to include iron levels, vit D, B12, thyroid.

And if they tell you over the phone the results and say that everything is normal, go back to the GP to discuss further. I was told results were normal...and they were not.

We are at the end of a dismal long cold winter and the news is constantly worrying and upsetting which can make you feel worn out. Hope you get some answers and some help.

I feel exhausted. I think we all need some sun but yes, get your bloods checked.

Thank you all, seems I’m not alone. I do have plenty to occupy me and have a good social network but I keep having to cancel things which makes me feel like I’m letting people down.
Luckily I’m quite happy lying on the sofa reading so I’m not bored and have managed to remove most stresses from my life and the dog needs taking out for walks so I do get some exercise. But not near enough.
I’m concerned that feeling like this will make me depressed (I’ve been there in the past,) so really want to find out if anything’s wrong. With spring here, I just want to be out and about.

If you want to spring into spring get your bloods check ?
If nothings wrong you can carry on doing what you want to do as much or as little but you don’t want to miss the two weeks of summer do you !!!

I have suffered a viral spiral, one thing after another finishing with a grand finale of influenza. Have been feeling exhausted for some time though bloods show nothing amiss. Have you suffered colds/coughs over winter. I think can be very draining as we get older. Book your bloods asap.

I had awful tiredness found out I was anemic and put on iron tablets.

This could be a thyroid problem, but I think it is just as likely that it is just the end of winter catching up on you.

You say you are 67, does this mean you are recently retired? The change from working to retirement can take some getting used to, on the other hand still going to work at this age can be very tiring too.

Do make an appointment with your doctor - there is no point in just putting up with feeling tired all the time.

I’ve been retired over a year and this has only just hit me. But I’ve been making an effort today to keep busy and the sunshine helps and feel a bit less tired. Might get my bloods checked anyway.

Well. I am 80 years old and I don’t get enough sleep.
I have difficulty getting of to sleep sometimes and I always wake early and can’t get back to sleep.
Very annoying.

I attend a weekly yoga class and after that I’m wiped out and have to go to bed for a nap.
I seem to be perpetually tired.

Have blood tests done, but slightly anemic. No mention of any medication, so left it.

If I haven’t had enough sleep I might as well go straight back to bed because I can’t function. I feel so tired sometimes I think that I could lie down on the floor wherever I am and go straight back to sleep. I do, however, also suffer from motivational tiredness when I’m faced with a mountain of stuff that I just don’t want to do.

I’m so glad I’m not the only one with this problem!! Last year or so feeling increasingly lacking in energy. I thorough bloods done very recently - all clear. I have no problem sleeping. I am on quite a lot of medication but have been so for the past 5 years and it’s not affected me like this before. Only got a small house but doing housework just exhausts me, changing my bed is a killer!! I have 2 dogs. Walking was a great pleasure, now it’s to be endured!! Anyone has any suggestions I’d love to hear them.

I had the same issues with low energy and all encompassing tiredness, my GP advised it was a side effect of my medication. After struggling for months I gave in and retired early doing what I can on the good days and the off days just rest. I had loads of blood tests including thyroid, but nothing indicated a problem so have had to accept this is how my life will be going forward.

I was the same, get up in the morning and do just one thing and then have to go back to bed and sleep. It was lack of iron, in fact it was so low I qualified for an infusion of iron given over two weeks. Felt like Wonder Woman afterwards. Also lack of the sunshine vitamin was another reason.

I am another saying get yourself checked out.

A friend of mine kept saying they were feeling tired, and was it normal?
I said it was difficult to say, me not being her, but it didnt sound quite right[for her].

She got checked out and had two heart problems.

My OH is tired all the time. He went to donate blood but was refused due to anaemia. Saw GP who is repeating blood tests in a month, but told him not to take iron meds! We eat a very good diet including liver, beef, chicken broccoli citrus fruit etc every week so I am worried but haven't told him.
OP see your doctor xx