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.

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    Yeah, I’m with Velma here. This is absolutely not normal for women in our 30s. I’m older than you and it sounds like I have a lot more energy than you.

    I’m 42 and sleep 9pm-4am, drink a cup of coffee in the morning, one more just after lunch (because I love coffee), and I never need a nap. Even on days that I’m highly active, no naps. When my partner didn’t realize he was brewing decaf for a week, I didn’t get abnormally tired, just minor caffeine withdrawals. I honestly don’t think I’ve taken a nap since my late 20s when I was working overnight shifts.

    Maybe consider a device that monitors your sleep. I do have some restless nights and my Apple Watch catches it. Usually I just take a melatonin the next night and I sleep like a baby.

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        I’m nowhere near as smart as I was when I was 15. This thing with mispronouncing words and getting sentences wrong happens to me all the time now and I find it so much easier to communicate via text than actually speaking. Most of the time I feel like I don’t know what’s going on and I actually thought today was Wednesday! Hooray for ageing! I miss teenage me.

        Looking at your other posts, you seriously need to see a doctor. Something is wrong.

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          Everything’s normal! I’ve seen multiple doctors and had every blood, vitamin, and hormone test under the sun, and then some. Everything comes back normal. I’m just not in my prime

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            You’re acting drunk, mispronouncing your words enough that you have to text and can’t speak properly, and need constant naps.

            Come on now. I know it sucks to push doctors for answers, I know it sucks to have to stop and take care of your health, but this is serious.

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              I really don’t believe this is actually a woman and I fucking hate saying that. There is too much “not in my prime anymore”. Like every single comment has that, it so reads as a guy making fun of women getting older.

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                Nah there’s no way this is a woman and I also hate saying that. No woman is seriously pushing that our DNA degrades so much in our 30s that we’re literally geriatric.

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                    You’d think these types would get tired of the same jokes over and over again.

                    Women being ancient at 30 years old? Please, it’s not even clever!

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              I’ve seen multiple doctors for years. This is just something I need to get on with. Every blood test came back normal. And, like the meme I posted suggests, caffeine does wonders.

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        And women are clinically considered to be geriatric at 35 or older. Geriatric. I’m 31, so I’m not in my prime anymore.

        For pregnancy It says it right in your link.

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        In the medical world, a geriatric pregnancy is an old term that was used to describe a pregnancy in a person over the age of 35. Nowadays, doctors use the term advanced maternal age (AMA) instead.

        The pregnancy was called geriatric, not the woman. What you describe is not normal. Every women over 60 I personally know, sleeps less and is less tired than you seem to be. You may not be infected with something, but this is not normal, and if you are annoyed by it, you should do something about it.

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        Get a real sleep study done, not just your boyfriend watching you. It has nothing to do with aging slower, but if you are so tired you get mistaken for drunk after a full nights sleep, there is absolutely something going on that you need to look into.

        You can have all the normal blood tests in the world and that doesn’t mean there isn’t something wrong. It took a couple years of blood tests and scans coming out normal for doctors to find out it was cancer causing my dad’s skin rashes, they only found it because of a chest x-ray for something entirely unrelated.