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 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.
Homegirl, full respect here. I don't know you, but I want you to love life. This just seems like a lot of caffeine and a lot of sleep and no result. Which, to me, indicates something not OK.
I respect that you want to manage this yourself. Get specialist perspective, please. Maybe going the other way is the solution. Less might be more. Or maybe try that out and see if getting down to 100mg a day as one cup of coffee is better.
I've been to several specialists who did every test under the sun and they all came back normal. I got a second, third, and fourth opinion. All normal, at this point I'll just be wasting doctor's time.
It's just something I need to get on with. I don't like coffee. I take caffeine in the form of pills.
Have you done a sleep study?
Before I got my CPAP I had more energy on 2h of sleep than 10