I know Reddit isn’t a replacement for actual medical advice, but I don’t have my next physical until October. This isn’t *urgent* per se, but it is affecting my daily life. I’m not sure if chronic fatigue is more of a physical or mental health issue. It is affecting my work. It’s also affecting just my everyday life. I have no desire to do any physical activity. I don’t mean just the gym. I mean fun stuff I used to like like dancing. I’ve also noticed over the last week that after work, I just crash in bed. I don’t eat dinner. I’m not hungry. I don’t even want to cook, which I usually enjoy. I don’t want to go and do hobbies. I just come home and crash at 6:00. Sometimes I set a 20 minute alarm so that it’ll just be a nap…but I usually sleep through that. I end up waking up around midnight, realizing my nap turned into more like a full night’s sleep. But what am I going to do at midnight, especially if I have to work again the next morning? So I might get up, watch a 15-minute YouTube video, and then go back to bed.
I wake up on time, but then half way through the work day, I’m exhausted again. I work from home, so I can kind of get away with sleeping on the job. I shouldn’t. My employment is actually in jeopardy…for different reasons. But I just can’t stay awake and productive for ten hours a day.
I don’t know if I should just wait six months until I can see my PCP or look for some sort of sleep doctor or something. Or maybe just talk to my therapist about it…I’m supposed to see him in a month. Hopefully I’ll still have a job by then.
What are your thoughts?