Recently I have been sleeping a ridiculous amount. 18 hours per day. Doctor has had thyroid tested and nothing is showing.
Any clues? What medication can be prescribed?
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Did your dr. check your iron levels? Not just your hemoglobin but your ferritin levels along with it. Anemia will make you feel like you can sleep all day.
Manchester,
You are not menopausal by some chance??? (sorry, just joking...)
Well it could be anything from dehydration (do not wait to become thirsty to drink...by then it is too late...you need to keep both your water and mineral levels up to not 'wilt' from exhaustion.)to iron levels like Marianne said and 100 other causes...Do you snore at night? Have sleep apnea (guys tend to get it more than girls for some reason but it disturbs the sleep cycle and makes you exhausted), infection can be a cause too...an underlying infection that is simmering but not obvious can be a major factor for exhaustion...If there is no pain, no fever and no other symptoms then you need to have blood work done to check out the underlying possible causes...I was permanantely exhausted when I had a staff infection that just would not quit...it took a lot of time and antibiotics to get rid of it and get my energy back...
For now, keep up the healthy eating, fruits and veggies, juices and liquids and call your doc.
Sharon
You are not menopausal by some chance??? (sorry, just joking...)
Well it could be anything from dehydration (do not wait to become thirsty to drink...by then it is too late...you need to keep both your water and mineral levels up to not 'wilt' from exhaustion.)to iron levels like Marianne said and 100 other causes...Do you snore at night? Have sleep apnea (guys tend to get it more than girls for some reason but it disturbs the sleep cycle and makes you exhausted), infection can be a cause too...an underlying infection that is simmering but not obvious can be a major factor for exhaustion...If there is no pain, no fever and no other symptoms then you need to have blood work done to check out the underlying possible causes...I was permanantely exhausted when I had a staff infection that just would not quit...it took a lot of time and antibiotics to get rid of it and get my energy back...
For now, keep up the healthy eating, fruits and veggies, juices and liquids and call your doc.
Sharon
Another possibility is depression. Good news: no blood test is needed to rule it in or out!
Also Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia are possibilities. Please look them up and see if you have their symptoms. Fibromyalgia has a chronic fatigue component to it and I have Fibro. There are varying degrees of it just like any other disease or health problem. 
Also vitamin D and B12 which I'm petty sure was checked.
Also vitamin D and B12 which I'm petty sure was checked.
I suffer terribly from sleep paralysis. This is usually when i'm waking although it has recently started to happen when falling asleep also which is even more terrifying as it feels like your literlly dying and if you let your body sleep while your brain is awake you will never wake up.
Horrible
Horrible