meltycat

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[–] meltycat@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago) (1 children)

I have a fitbit and it says my sleep's fine. No abnormal oxygen variations.

Also it's possible you age slower than most women. Not all old men are as lucid as David Attenborough, for example.

And women are clinically considered to be geriatric at 35 or older. Geriatric. I'm 31, so I'm not in my prime anymore. https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/geriatric-pregnancy

[–] meltycat@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

I only take caffeine pills occasionally. Not every day, and when I go through a long period of not having them I'm the same.

[–] meltycat@lemmy.world -1 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago) (3 children)

I've wasted doctor's time enough. And sleep apnea wouldn't explain why this was gradual and started happening as I approached my thirties. Just like I'm getting old and aren't that far off from being considered geriatric for a woman. (I'm 31, so a little under 4 years off) https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/geriatric-pregnancy

When I was in college, I could not sleep all night and still ace college from 8 till 5. And then do lots of stuff after I came home. And my BMI is still 20 so it's not that I've gotten fat.

[–] meltycat@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

Never had Covid.

[–] meltycat@lemmy.world -1 points 20 minutes ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago)

I know people are trying to be more positive about ageing in women, but 35 or over is clinically considered geriatric in women: https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/geriatric-pregnancy

I'm not yet considered geriatric, but I'm absolutely not in my prime anymore.

It's just something I need to get on with. I accept that I'm getting old for a woman. I've seen lots of doctors and had every hormone, vitamin, blood test etc under the sun and they're all normal. I'm not going to waste their time anymore.

Stimulants are good.

[–] meltycat@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago)

I have, multiple times, had every blood test, everything's normal!

Can be solved, at least temporarily, with occasional high-dose of caffeine pills, but even 400 mg, even back when I was first trying caffeine pills when I never had coffee because I hate it, I don't feel buzzed, just around 70% to 20-year old me. Which makes me think I need a stronger stimulant.

[–] meltycat@lemmy.world 0 points 26 minutes ago

No. This started when I entered my thirties, which is how I know it's age related.

[–] meltycat@lemmy.world -3 points 33 minutes ago* (last edited 32 minutes ago)

https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/geriatric-pregnancy

At or after the age of 35, a woman getting pregnant is clinically considered a geriatric pregnancy. I'm not yet considered geriatric in the medical world, but I'm not in my prime anymore, and that's okay.

[–] meltycat@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago (5 children)

My BMI is 20, I only have caffeine occasionally in the form of pills, I'm not stressed, and I don't even snore.

[–] meltycat@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago (7 children)

I've talked to loads and my tests have returned normal!

[–] meltycat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

My iron and Vitamin D levels are fine. They were checked recently along with various other things.

 

I sleep 10 hours a night but still need to nap constantly during the day. Even 400 mg of caffeine doesn't buzz me, it just makes me feel 70% close to my normal, high energy 20s self. My daytime fatigue is so severe I've been mistaken for being drunk (even though I don't drink), and I experience a dream like brain fog around friends unless I use caffeine pills to seem present.

I know this is part of normal aging for a woman in her 30s, but it's frustrating to constantly need naps when I haven't even done anything. Sometimes you just have to biohack. Still, I feel a bit jealous of how men age differently and seem to keep loads of energy.

 

I’m nowhere near as smart as I was when I was 15. This thing with mispronouncing words and getting sentences wrong happens to me all the time now and I find it so much easier to communicate via text than actually speaking. Most of the time I feel like I don’t know what’s going on and I actually thought today was Wednesday! Hooray for ageing! I miss teenage me.

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