Question: I have often struggled with fatigue in my life. I was an excellent athlete in my youth never wanting to slow down but once I stopped, I felt the exhaustion. Now as a 55 year old teacher I don't exercise regularly and more and more I feel that it would be impossible to do so. I am literally so exhausted that I feel hung-over all the time. I wake up and feel this way upon waking. I ache in my chest and ribs, in my upper back and to a lesser degree everywhere as though I have a chronic flew. I am weak but can force myself to to house cleaning and school work as long as I can rest after. The rest seems to do little good. My throat feels slightly sore all the time and from time to time I have a coughing spell that goes away and stays away for about a week. My sinuses have always been a problem making a relaxing massage not relaxing at all because my face becomes filled with pain. My chest feels heavy most often and I find myself struggling for breath when the stress load of teaching gets to be a bit much. Each night I hope that I won't wake up the next morning feeling like I'd tied-one-on the night before but the feeling seems to be intensifying and by lunch time I feel done-in. Coffee seems to be my only option but it has consequences that cause even more fatigue and weakness such as UTI infections and quick onsets of hypoglycaemia. I'm fighting off a UTI infection without an antibiotic because they cause me to have yeast infections. I'm taking probiotics because last year may my stomach flared up with such pain that I was immobilized by it. The doctors did massive blood tests and found no abnormalities. The drugs they prescribed did nothing for the intense pain that would suddenly overcome me. I looked elsewhere and found that probiotics and digestive enzymes with my food were the remedy. My stomach is very sensitive though especially to antibiotics and pain killers. I've tried to give you as much info as I can think of. Do you know why I'm feeling flue-ish and exhausted?