Ever since I started T I've been exhausted ALL THE TIME. It's horrible trying to get up in the morning for class. I wake up but feel sick when I try to get up. I've also been nauseous pretty much every morning. It's driving me crazy and really affecting my school work/class attendance. Any suggestions besides going to bed early (already do that) and exercising some (do that one too)?

I wake up nauseous sometimes in the mornings; I'm also sleepy all the time.  I just got tested for sleep apnea...I do have it and at time my oxygen levels dropped pretty low.  I'm pretty sure that's where some of my nausea and headaches come from when I wake up.  I'm not sure what it would have to do with T though. 

Quote from: JesseA on October 26, 2010, 01:08:32 PM
Ever since I started T I've been exhausted ALL THE TIME. It's horrible trying to get up in the morning for class. I wake up but feel sick when I try to get up. I've also been nauseous pretty much every morning. It's driving me crazy and really affecting my school work/class attendance. Any suggestions besides going to bed early (already do that) and exercising some (do that one too)?

Talk to the doctor about it. T does not effect everyone the same way. What's normal for your body might be getting thrown way off by the dose your on. Explain the symptoms to the doctor and that you've only had them since starting T. It could be you have something else going on hormonally or something else entirely but if it just started happening since T then it's at least likely that has something to do with it and your first step should be to go over it with your doctor.

As others said talk to your Dr ASAP. But have you also increased your calorie intake? T affects lots of body tissue and increases metabolism a lot. If you are starting T driven male puberty you need to start eating protein like a male going through puberty. But make sure it's balanced good diet you want muscle not fat. I'm the opposite for obvious reasons. My food intake has about halved since AA.

Cindy

Thanks you guys, my next appt. is in a week so Ill talk to my doctor then. It's been taking a toll on me and Id like to get to the bottom of this as quickly as possible.

Oh, and I have been consuming what seems like crazy amounts of food. Im always hungry and always eating.

Are you getting enough sleep? I know you say you're going to bed early, but teenage boys are known to go back to sleeping for 11-14 hours a night (like young children) at the beginning of puberty. Try going to sleep on a weekend with no alarm and see how long you sleep - then see if you can allot that much time every day.

Nausea can be a symptom of sleep deprivation, or of waking at a bad time in the sleep cycle. Nausea and heartburn are my body's primary indicators that I haven't slept enough and/or that I've been up too long.

jmaxley, as far as sleep apnea: if I recall correctly, men are more prone to it than women, though I'm not sure anyone knows why. I imagine vocal fold thickening and accompanying throat/laryngeal changes could have something to do with it.

Yeah I've gotten to where Im getting between 12 and 16 hours of sleep a night and still absolutely exhausted the next day. Before T I needed 9 hours......I just need a lot of sleep in general but this is getting crazy.

Yeah, check with your doctor. First thing I'd suggest is to have your thyroid levels checked.

Sleep is not about how many hours you need. If your body keeps wanting to sleep over 12 hours it's probable that you're not getting sufficient rest out of your sleep, which means you're not getting proper deep sleep. Something's interrupting your cycle.
(Take it from the man who hasn't had a "good night's rest" in over a decade.)

If it persists you might face some really bad problems down the line.

If you can work out what interrupts (a smell, a sound, something uncomfortable, too hot, too cold, anything of that sort) and can remove it, then that may be enough.

It's more than possible, it's likely, that T alone has not caused this (unless it's causing muscle-twitching directly), but has contributed to it by creating a change in your system which causes you to be more vulnerable to some interruption or another.

I feel the same way, except that I feel less nauseous when I wake up than when I used to. Then again, I've always had relatively extreme problems with that all through my life. Like I said, however, they're decreasing now that I've started T.  I am however requiring much more sleep than normal.  Sometimes a ridiculous amount.  Followed by complete contentment at just staying in bed for a good long time afterward.

that MMPI test on another post has various questions about being tired, sleeping badly etc so if any of you guys who have sleep problems were to take that test some shrinks would probably say you have mental problems.
the MMPI was put together before there were such things as FtMs and testo therapy.