Extreme Fatigue

hodmom2011

Help! Anyone have advice on how I can fight this extreme fatigue I feel? I have no motivation to do anything. Seriously, I have to talk myself into taking a shower some days. I am a nurse who works weekend nights and then stays at home with my 2 1/2 year old during the week. My hubby is a great help but since he works night shift through the week, I am left to do most of the child and home care. I have a constant headache and have to take Zofran to keep any food down. I was not like this at all with my first. I know part of it is stress (we are moving in a month, I am in school, and a wife and mom). I sleep 10 hours a night and wake up feeling hit by a train. I have tried to stay away from caffeine but most days I end up drinking a can of Coke (only 35 mg of caffeine) to keep me from falling asleep while my son is awake. I nap when he does somedays but most of the time I have to do homework. Any natural supplements I can take to help fight this? (My hgb is great so I know it is not anemia). Any advice would help. Thanks! Praying for you all as we battle the "yuck" to get the precious end result!!

beccam1230

Oh my goodness.. You are a busy lady! I know how you feel in terms of fatigue, some days I wasn't even able to get out of bed. Especially before I got my zofran and I felt like death. I would usually drink coke for 1) the caffeine, and 2) it helped settle my stomach. But it didn't really help too much for fatigue. Naps didn't do a whole lot except make me feel worse than I did before I went to sleep. Once I was on zofran, I felt way better in the way of sickness but I was almost more tired than before. So I looked it up and there were several instances of severe fatigue with zofran. So that could be it... But I would say its more likely that it just ran it's course. Come 16 weeks and I stopped throwing up and I managed to get up and start doing things again! Energy surge, woohoo! Probably because I was into my second trimester at that point and not because I stopped the zofran.

Anywho.. Now we are in the middle of moving and it's so frustrating that I can't set my house up as fast as I would like to because I get tired so fast!

So while this isn't actually advice or suggestions, I wanted to commiserate a little :-) and to remind you that it will get better! With everything going on for you, maybe it would help to try to just sit back and relax for a bit every day. You deserve it! Good luck with everything and I hope you start feeling better soon.