r/chronicfatigue

Hi, I am a 28 year old male. I am trying to understand why I get very tired from very small activities.

This has been happening for the last few months.

Examples:

\- I cleaned my room for about 30 minutes and felt completely drained after

\- Even riding a scooter for 30 to 40 minutes makes me very tired

\- Driving a car for 30 to 40 minutes also makes me feel the same way

After these, I feel like I have no energy left at all.

My symptoms:

\- Get tired very quickly

\- Extreme fatigue after small work

\- Deep “bone tired” feeling

\- Pain in thighs, arms, buttocks

\- Shin bone pain sometimes

\- Whole body feels weak and heavy

Lifestyle:

\- I have a mostly sedentary lifestyle

\- Doctors told me to start being more active

My blood test summary:

Doctors said everything is normal, but I still feel very bad.

From my report:

\- Platelets: 103 (low)

\- Hemoglobin: 14.4 (normal)

\- MCHC: low

\- RDW: slightly high

\- Vitamin B12: normal

\- Vitamin D: normal

\- Thyroid (TSH, T3, T4): normal

\- hs-CRP: 1.9 (a bit high)

\- IgE: 436 (very high)

Other tests like sugar, liver, kidney are normal.

What doctors told me:

They said reports are fine and I just need to start moving more because I have a sedentary lifestyle.

My question:

Does this level of tiredness sound normal for a sedentary person, or could something else be going on?

Could it be:

\- poor stamina only

\- problem with red blood cells even if hemoglobin is normal

\- inflammation or immune system issue

\- allergy related problem (IgE is very high)

\- low platelets causing this

\- something like chronic fatigue

This is affecting my daily life a lot.

I would really appreciate guidance on what I should check next or what I might be missing.

P.S. Recently got diagnosed with Cough Variant Asthma.

I think I've come to a recent realization that it seems likely my chronic fatigue without PEM and no signs of anything obviously wrong on my medical examinations could be caused by chronic stress.

It all started 3 years ago or so when a bunch of super stressful stuff happened in my life including the beginning/first noticing hypersomnia from severe sleep apnea, though I didnt know it existed yet and didn't get treatment for it until over a year later after that. It's supposedly well treated as of now. But I still feel exhausted and weak all the damn time, and I tested positive for SIBO (which can be caused by chronic stress) which gave me some mild gasterointestinal issues and worsened fatigue episodes from time to time that last 7 to 14 days. That mostly went away after doing a round of metronidazole antibiotics, but it feels like it's coming back after only 6 months post treatment and I had another bad episode of excessive fatigue recently.

Mentally I am fairing very poorly. My fatigue makes it difficult to work which causes financial stress, makes it hard to socialize and date which causes stress from loneliness and current events make it feel like theres no hope for the future and I have nothing to look forward to and my family has pretty much collapsed and I don't know why the fuck I'm even alive anymore. I don't want to die and I'm so scared of death, but I feel like the universe is forcing me to make a choice: die or suffer immensely and that stress is feeding back on itself and I can't stop ruminating over all of this it's like the only thing I think about anymore and... I don't know how I'm supposed to fucking live like this, I'm beyond lonely and miserable and hopeless and I can't fucking take it anymore I don't want to die, but I need to die, but I don't want to die. Ahhhhhhhh!

So yeah, stressed the fuck out. I don't really have any evidence if this is for sure causing the fatigue, but the factors contributing seem to make sense.

Hi everyone! Am I the only one who gets so tired that it's hard to even speak because making sounds and opening my mouth is difficult due to being so tired and fatigued?

Hi, My name is Ben. I've always been very sporty and was a pro alpine skier for Germany.

About 11 months ago I got really sick and I never fully recovered.

I have been to dozends of doctors and physicians none of which helped me. I am on a strict program for pacing but whenever I do just a bit more than I crash.

I don't have a diagnosis for Long covid / chronic fatigue / CFS but doctors suspect it and my symptoms include:

- raised Resting HR after activity

- raised Body temperature after activity (mostly in the morning/evening)

- general sense of fatigue

- sore throat

Whenever I train a bit harder like an athlete needs to my body just cant handle it.

It's been extremely frustrating for me, my family, all my trainers and supporters and I really want to get back to doing what i love.

Skiing and Sports are my life so if anyone has any advice on what I can do I would highly appreciate it.