chronic fatigue...just another one of my problems
For the past couple of months now I've been noticing that I've been very tired all the time lately. Now this isn't something that's completely uncommon for me, or for many of you for that matter, cause I had my terminal ileum removed 7 years ago, and I know that can really mess with vitamin b-12 absorption.
However, for the past few weeks this fatigue has becoming very excessive to the point where I honestly would rather sleep in my bed while all my friends and roommates are in the living room or out having a good time. (I'm a college sophomore.) I feel like this is another huge disadvantage to me, along with my crohn's symptoms in general, and that it's really gonna hold me back in school this semester. I'm a biomedical sciences major, and I hold about a 3.6 gpa, and I take my classes very seriously. I've always been a little bit of a procrastinator, just like most of the human race, but these past couple weeks, I go to sleep early (10-11pm) and I wake up for classes, and as soon as I'm done with classes, I come back and take a nap. I wake up a couple hours later, get done what absolutely NEEDS to get done for the next day, eat dinner, and go to sleep pretty early. Normally, I'd go to the library and get work done or study, but I can't seem to get myself to do anything other than just sleep.
I started taking 1000mcg/day of vitamin b-12 about a month ago, hoping that would help to get things on track again. However, I have noticed no improvement, I've actually gotten worse since then.
I need some advice from you guys, if anyone else experiences chronic fatigue, and what you do to help it. I'm currently on a low residue diet for the past 2 weeks, have been having mostly constipation instead of diarrhea for about 6 months, taking humira 1x week, along with a multivitamin, align probiotic, and azathioprine 150mg/day. I'm sure my eating habits with my low-resi diet is not affecting this, cause the fatigue began before it, and I make sure I get protein from fish and chicken, etc. Please help! This is really interfering with my life!
For the past couple of months now I've been noticing that I've been very tired all the time lately. Now this isn't something that's completely uncommon for me, or for many of you for that matter, cause I had my terminal ileum removed 7 years ago, and I know that can really mess with vitamin b-12 absorption.
However, for the past few weeks this fatigue has becoming very excessive to the point where I honestly would rather sleep in my bed while all my friends and roommates are in the living room or out having a good time. (I'm a college sophomore.) I feel like this is another huge disadvantage to me, along with my crohn's symptoms in general, and that it's really gonna hold me back in school this semester. I'm a biomedical sciences major, and I hold about a 3.6 gpa, and I take my classes very seriously. I've always been a little bit of a procrastinator, just like most of the human race, but these past couple weeks, I go to sleep early (10-11pm) and I wake up for classes, and as soon as I'm done with classes, I come back and take a nap. I wake up a couple hours later, get done what absolutely NEEDS to get done for the next day, eat dinner, and go to sleep pretty early. Normally, I'd go to the library and get work done or study, but I can't seem to get myself to do anything other than just sleep.
I started taking 1000mcg/day of vitamin b-12 about a month ago, hoping that would help to get things on track again. However, I have noticed no improvement, I've actually gotten worse since then.
I need some advice from you guys, if anyone else experiences chronic fatigue, and what you do to help it. I'm currently on a low residue diet for the past 2 weeks, have been having mostly constipation instead of diarrhea for about 6 months, taking humira 1x week, along with a multivitamin, align probiotic, and azathioprine 150mg/day. I'm sure my eating habits with my low-resi diet is not affecting this, cause the fatigue began before it, and I make sure I get protein from fish and chicken, etc. Please help! This is really interfering with my life!
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