Tired (of being tired)

All I have been able to talk about on my posts for the last week or so (perhaps even the last month?!?) is how tired I am in the afternoons. I am definitely tired of being tired all the time. Sure, I now have work stress, the monthly cycle coming on, and weather that can't seem to make up its mind, and possibly my thyroid med needing to be adjusted, but really, why is this the one symptom that sticks out for me? Admittedly, it is a lot better than feeling depressed and crying each day, but this is ridiculous.

Going back to pre-thyroid issue awareness, I would always fall asleep each night, waiting to see the weather forecast on the 10pm local news. I'd fall asleep just before the weather and would sleep right through it, for about an hour so I'd also miss the weather on the local 11pm news. This would happen just about every week night. Then I'd end up not being able to sleep until 2am, could barely get up at 6:15am. But amazingly, I'd be fine at work. No problems, not even after a long walk on my lunch break. It would catch up to me on the weekends though. I'd end up sleeping in until 9 or 10am, then often just laying there trying to decide if I should get up or not. On the rare occasion I had to be somewhere earlier than 8am, I would always manage to get up on time for that.

Nowadays, since I have to take my Levoxyl at the same time each day, I have learned to adjust for it. When I started my Levoxyl regimen, I was taking it at 9am, but I was also out on leave. Now I take it at 6am. So if I go to sleep really late on a Friday or Saturday night, I can still manage to get up at 6am the next morning to take my meds, and have recently been able to go back to sleep, but only so long as my total sleeping hours isn't over 5 hours. I don't know, perhaps this could all be sleep related. Hopefully on my next post I'll have something else to report, other than the fact that I'm still tired in the afternoons.