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.
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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.
Never had Covid.
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.
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.
No. This started when I entered my thirties, which is how I know it's age related.
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.
My BMI is 20, I only have caffeine occasionally in the form of pills, I'm not stressed, and I don't even snore.
I've talked to loads and my tests have returned normal!
My iron and Vitamin D levels are fine. They were checked recently along with various other things.
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