hi Mel, good comments by Tony and Wednesday as thyroid does create many extra problems which could make you tired, but I feel as though now you have been put onto a disablity pension surely does change your thinking, especially when you have been in charge of management roles, but you feel as though you have let yourself down by feeling as though you're not capable of being in this role once again, this may not be true, it's a stage, where you have come to a point in time where depression has taken over how you think and what you are capable of doing, at the moment.
The feeling of being tired is a prerequisite of being depressed, plus it also makes you unable to do your daily chores which you have done once before without any concerns.
Everybody is different, but for me it makes me tired from the time I hop up, people say that this depression taking over my body, true, but I'm not depressed and haven't been for a few years now, I do know that the medication I have to take needs to be inexcess of the normal amount, which certainly contributes to being tired, but before I had to take all of this medication I could sleep at any time where ever I was, because I was always tired and felt exhausted.
I do take vitamin B tablets but for me they don't stop this tiredness.
The pain and suffering you are having can only be told and understood by people who have been through it themselves, and that's us who are on this site, because other people think that you are lazy, that's far from the truth, but you have t take it day by day, don't look at the vast future, because plans in advance don't come true.
Don't punish yourself for feeling this way and go to your doctor for regular blood tests, but what concerns me is that you haven't mentioned any antidepressants (AD), however I presume that your doctor has prescribed some to you, and if so they need to be reviewed, especially if you aren't feeling any better, and that's now. Geoff.
