Supplements for Energy & Fatigue

What’s your height, weight, and exercise habits?

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I need something that will energize me to get motivated to exercise.

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Being in better shape will do this.

What's your general age? Low T could be a reason. May be worth getting it checked out if you haven't lately.

I'm not an expert but I do pretend to be one on message boards.

Depression?

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Can it never be just general laziness? Get off your arse and do something. Report back on 90 days if symptoms persist

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But big pharma can’t sell you a pill for that. Need to keep the stock price up

Do like the rest of us and pound a Monster, Reign Storm, C4, or Ghost and walk inside a gym.
Move around for an hour
Go home
Repeat the next day
In a week or two you’ll know what to actually do in the gym

When i left the mines, I gained a lot, just from not walking everywhere, lol. Decided 2 months ago to start back at gym and eat better. Tired of being a fatass. And will hopefully have grandchildren in the next few years. So, I want to be able to do things with them, Lord willing.

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What's your general age? Low T could be a reason. May be worth getting it checked out if you haven't lately.

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I had all the symptoms (low energy/drive/motivation) but I work out and exercise 4x/week.

Got my T tested and sure enough - very low end of normal.

I got prescribed provigil awhile back and like it. Shouldn't be hard to get with sleep apnea

I second the rec for provigil. It works great for me. Most of my career as an icu nurse has been at night, and I got tired with fighting the intense fatigue and sleepiness that I had on my days (what y'all call "night") when I didn't work. I have no problem staying awake on my work days(nights) because it's busy as frick, but on my days off I'd struggle to feel fully awake and I often had no drive to do much and it felt like life was just ticking away. I'd often only make it halfway through my "day" and just feel so damn tired I'd go back to bed, ("why not? it's 0123, what is there to do? just go to bed, frick it") and then that would throw off my sleep schedule.

I take modafinil, the generic, and I have enjoyed it's subtle impact. It's not stimulating, it doesn't impact my HR or BP, no jitters or "up" feeling like I hear about from stuff like adderall, vyvanse, ritalin etc, it just makes me feel fully awake and alert and in the mood to do shite. It's most wonderful benefit that I've discovered is that it is the most effective sleep aid I've taken so far in my life. By keeping me awake and active for a full day, it has helped my sleep hygiene quite a lot. I go to bed and get out of bed at more consistent times and get a longer sleep in while I'm down because there are no more naps. I'm not a guy that can handle naps, it throws everything off.

TLDR: I sleep better when I'm supposed to sleep because I'm more wakeful when I'm supposed to be awake. One supports the other. Sorry, I know your question was about a supplement and this is a prescription medication, but I never found any supplement that really dealt with fatigue/sleepiness. 20 years ago I would have said caffeine because it worked like a charm for years, until it didn't. I began to adapt to caffeine and had to chase higher and higher doses until it's too much and it's jacking up your HR/BP and messing with your sleep. It was a dead end. Modafinil fixed me right up.