ilikeapplejuice: WHOOPS! My liver just ran out of B12. Seven and a half years of veganism. Hooray! Brain fog! Brain fog! Paleness! Shortness of breath! Brain fog! What were we talking about? … I’m mostly in the theoretical phase, but i’m looking into blood work. I’m also going to start taking one of them sunnilingual B12 thingies of some kind. Another thing… thing that… I… phew. Hold on. I gotta go lie down for a minute.

xWhenIMetHer: I was in an absolute brain fog for my exams today.

ilovemylab: Does anyone else here have to take naps every day? I do every day when I get back from work, I fall into a deep sleep for 1-2 hours. I’ve also had brain fog.

VeganPhoenix: Hey, I have that brain fog thing too. Major dizziness. Problems to concentrate. And I mean really. I can’t think of the right words, even in my first language, and I constantly type completely different words from what I mean to say (e.g. if they start with the same syllable, I just keep on typing some wrong word). I can’t remember stuff, and I don’t look where I’m going (so I fell down once on my way home from work, right in the middle of the sidewalk). Finally, I went to see a doctor - and right now I’m waiting for the results of my blood test, which I’ll get tomorrow. The doc said there’s a high probability it’s either iron deficiency or B12 deficiency, so ha ha.

Stella: I have felt a little tired and experienced trouble focusing, small memory lapses, etc. over the past few months.

VavoomKitty: I’ve been taking mega doses of b12 for a month now, and my doctor thinks getting that up will make my memory problems go away. I still can’t remember if I fed the cats dinner or not.

Veg_eric: I usually take 1000mcg a day of b12 (solgar nuggets), but I can still have “brainfog” or tiredness due to (work) stress.

rabidchild: I generally sleep 7-9 hrs a night and still have trouble getting through the day without a nap. I wish I knew some way to fix that, because it really is highly annoying.

BluePlasticStraw: The constant fatigue that my doctor had attributed to anemia has failed to resolve, despite taking iron supplements every day. I’m trying to lose weight but it’s hard to exercise when I get tired just walking across a parking lot.

KarynMC: I turned on the wrong burner and exploded a Pyrex that my roommate had left on the stove. The thing is, I’ve always been accident prone, but where I bruise myself, not like I’ve been lately, where I’ve sent myself to the hospital with burns or made dangerous Pyrex bombs. … I just talked to my mom and she was like “You were tired! And you get brain fog! Stop doing stuff when you’re overtired!” But I am tired a lot! … I get these dizzy headaches, and those have led to me crashing off my bike and denting my car, just because my coordination stopped existing. Brain fog/insomnia make me much worse, but my endocrinologist insists that they have nothing to do with my thyroid.

Pop!: I had a doctor appointment yesterday, and was absolutely sure that I was hypothyroid, but my levels are in the “normal” range, and my doctor kind of attributed my exhaustion to working too much. But I’m young and (other than the obvious) healthy. Also, although my job is fairly intense, I only work about 25 hours per week.  I am positive that something is off, and I’m getting really frustrated because I don’t want to do anything, and have no pep whatsoever. I’d be desperate if I had the energy.

Vulchy: I have been checked several times for hypothyroid and have always come up normal on blood tests. I find that when I eat shitty, especially if I don’t eat my dark leafy greens, I am EXHAUSTED.

caterpillar: Sleeping 14 hours a day and then being too tired to do anything productive when you are awake isn’t much fun. I almost miss being an insomniac. I will be on holidays soon so I guess sleeping all day might be an alright idea, but until then it is making it hard as fuck to study for exams. Luckily the standard isn’t very high, so at least I shouldn’t fail anything.

Drake: Right now I go to bed at about 10pm, wake up at 6am to walk and feed the dogs, go back to bed at about 8am, and sleep until noon when I feed my dogs again. Then I play video games after I watch General Hospital. If I can be bothered to shower, I do it at about 4pm. I am also upgrading a couple of my marks in my grade 12 classes by correspondence because I want to go to university starting in May, but at this point I just don’t feel like I can make it until May. Not that I’m suicidal, because I’m not, but I just… I don’t really know how to explain. It just doesn’t feel possible.

linanil: Seriously, I’ve been in a funk for the past month, it seems. I am always cold, don’t want to get out of bed in the morning, especially when it was dark in the morning and I just overall feel blah. Is it too early in the season for SAD?

tahinitoo: I too am depressed often and exhausted beyond normal. My blood tests come back normal. Also, my hair started thinning. It is definitely frustrating. I find that if I exercise every day, it helps. Even if I think I am too tired to move, I do it anyway.

James-Lee: I get migraines like every other day, sometimes more often. … I feel horrible. I’m so cold, and tired. I’m sleeping 15 hours a day and still tired. I can’t drive anywhere because I fall asleep. Horrible headaches, and a foggy head. I’m so sick of it. It makes me feel like a bad mom. I want to be more energetic and with it for my son. This sucks.

Fooze: I have many of these symptoms, particularly extreme sensitivity to cold and being fatigued all the time and non existent sex drive. After the docs told me things were normal I just thought I had to live that way.

Koalaborg: I struggled with excessive sleepiness for years and two years ago finally went for a sleep study thinking it was narcolepsy. Blood work showed that I had an underactive thyroid. For years my family was convinced that I was just tired from studying or working too hard - I couldn’t convince them that falling asleep everyday at random and inappropriate times (like driving on the interstate) was probably not normal and even happened after a lot of sleep. I feel a lot better now that I am medicated.

antiyogadog: Doesn’t it seem like a lot of people have problems with the thyroid? Is there some common factor causing these problems? Seems so crazy.

ilikeapplejuice: Thanks for replying, everybody. I just wish I could focus on the screen and read what you all wrote.