Is it normal to have daily energy crashes?

Post date: 2021-03-03 18:08:11

YANMD but I'm surveying for personal experiences to help me decide if this problem is worth venturing to a walk-in clinic during a pandemic. Every day, after I eat lunch and dinner, I experience a debilitating crash in energy. It's often so extreme that I could not stay awake to save my life. I never had this issue pre-pandemic. Is this within the realm of normal (getting older? covid blues? winter?) or should I be concerned?

I think it started happening a few months ago. After I eat, I pass the hell out on the couch. Thankfully I work from home, so usually after lunch I can lie down for a bit, maybe have a short cat nap. Today it was so extreme that as soon as I felt it coming on, I checked my calendar to make sure I didn't have any more meetings in the afternoon and then zonked out for almost three hours on the couch. It's the kind of tired where you don't even move an arm or a leg for the entire sleep, the definition of sleeping like the dead. After dinner I don't mind so much, but I'd still like to stay up so I can spend time with my partner. Sometimes even a small snack is enough to bring on a crash.

It doesn't seem to matter what I eat. I've been avoiding greasy food and it's still happening. I am in my late 30's so maybe it's age? I'm at a healthy weight. I try to stay active, although that's taken a nosedive since the region where I live has implemented harder restrictions. I can no longer play league sports, which were a big part of my fitness, but I've been trying to do at least one strenuous outdoor physical activity a week. I usually get around 6 hours of sleep a night which is normal for me. Other than that, nothing else has changed in my routine. I donated blood recently and my iron levels were normal.

Is this normal or should I go get checked out?

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