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What Causes Severe Fatigue In An Elderly Person?

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Question : I never have any energy all ways sleeping 61 years old.
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Answered by Dr. Ivo Ditah (1 hour later)
Brief Answer:
Get your TSH levels controlled!

Detailed Answer:
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Am so sorry to hear about this. These are symptoms of possible low functioning thyroid. Seen the fact that you are already on drugs for this, am of the thinking that you may not be receiving enough thyroid medication. To evaluate the efficacy of this drug, we need to control your TSH levels. Talk about this with your doctor. Also, I will suggest your doctor should review and consider taking off metoprolol as this is not helping with having low thyroid on this medication.

I hope this is guiding enough. Keep me posted on how the test results turn out. Feel free to follow up if need be.
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What Causes Severe Fatigue In An Elderly Person?

Brief Answer: Get your TSH levels controlled! Detailed Answer: Hi, Am so sorry to hear about this. These are symptoms of possible low functioning thyroid. Seen the fact that you are already on drugs for this, am of the thinking that you may not be receiving enough thyroid medication. To evaluate the efficacy of this drug, we need to control your TSH levels. Talk about this with your doctor. Also, I will suggest your doctor should review and consider taking off metoprolol as this is not helping with having low thyroid on this medication. I hope this is guiding enough. Keep me posted on how the test results turn out. Feel free to follow up if need be.