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I am feeling tired all the time. My hand / legs go numb when I am in same position for more than 10 mins or so. I feel lot of weird stuff when I am asleep. Thyroid, Vitamin D, b12, diabetes, iron levels, brain MRI all came up normal. So my neuro suggested seeing a psychiatrist (I was depressed during Covid) which also didn't show any improvement. I have GERD though. Anyone in the similar boat? I feel like I might a possible explanation from this thread. My doctors couldn't find anything. I am 25, work in IT. All this issues started during Covid (when I was sitting all day in front of my computer) and got worse after that.

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Same boat, I'm a 32 software developer and gamer, always spent most of the day on a computer, but since last year I'm very tired every day, I'm a father and doctors dismissed me as having some sort of midlife crisis or changes in my life even though from my perspective, I've never been happier, the only thing bringing me down is being tired. I sometimes feel dizzy when standing up, way more often and stronger than the natural dizzy you sometimes get when staying sitting too long.

The list of possible reasons is long and not all can be tested: long Covid, ME/CFS, diabetes, sleep apnea, depression, vitamin deficiencies.

I've tried to practice more sports, stopped all coffee and alcohol for a month, slept for longer, nothing changed, but I should continue some of this anyway.

There's also this documentary on long covid or me/cfs where some people have it so much worse, can't get out of bed like the Youtuber PhysicsGirl... Devastating.

Early studies seem to indicate permanent brain damage because of viruses like Covid, so there might be no chance of recovery, just learning to live with it.

Anecdotal here but last year I changed my diet radically and completely swept away my daily tiredness and cyclical cluster headaches. First year in 7 years without one.

Largely I eat leafs and meats while keeping carbs down, keeping dairy low etc. It's not easy to make this adjustment but for me, where I was at physically I would try anything. Going to bed before the kids is for the birds.

My primary doc gave me the same rigamoure that you got so I finally kicked them to the curb and started a search for a new one. Found a doc who suggested the diet change and its worked well, I'll be working on adding some foods back in this year.

I'm eating mostly carbs and dairy and it's not the first time I hear this kind of thing, so I'll work on this now, thanks!

I had tried to do it at first but it was not easy to go from 100% carbs and dairy to 0% so I went back, but I'll have to commit to it.

It's very difficult tbh, don't give up, it'll get easier after 30 days. Tips for me since I tend to integrate a intermittent fast in the morning is just make sure to drink enough water, it does a pretty good job of kicking your hunger and then you'll get into ketosis which is good. The docs will tell you as part of this you should expect to go back down to your high school graduating weight which I said no way at the time, but sure enough, to a T I'm back down to it and have stopped losing weight now and when /if I do splurge on junk I will feel it, so it makes my lifestyle easy to maintain now.

I'm sure you've looked into this, but getting dizzy while standing up is a symptom of anemia. Best of luck to you!

Yes, blood tests confirmed I missed a little bit of iron, took supplements and levels are now normal but the fatigue and dizziness didn't go away.

Thanks, it seems a lot of people have similar symptoms, hope some of the causes get better treatments, but also more recognition, feels awful going to work every day like this, and doctors not prescribing time off work because symptoms are to broad/vague and no life threatening illness is found. If I didn't have a family to provide for, I'd just stop working right now.

I'm around the same age and I've been struggling with constant fatigue for years. It's very hard to be taken seriously. I am absolutely not an expert, but perhaps you have some kind of circulation issue? I hope you can find answers.

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