What's up doc ?

I'm feeling really exhausted at the moment and I'm not sure why. It just makes my days difficult to get through. I'm trying to concentrate on solving problems for my work while at the same time having to fight dosing off on my computer, it' s not easy.
I get more and more mental blanks too, my memory is failing and talking to workmates in a coherent manner has become a new sport for me. It feels as if I'd not had any sleep for the last 72 hours.

Now it's not like I go clubbing at night, I'm usually in bed by 9h30 pm....so I really don't get it. I've thought about this problem and came up with three possibilities.

1/ I've got some sleep disorder meaning although I go to sleep, I don't actually recuperate all that well.
2/ The medications I am currently on list "yawning" and "lethargy" as a side effect.
3/ I'm so used to working shift work than my body clock is struggling to cope with the new 9 to 5 dayshift.

Unfortunately talking to my GP about it is not going to be all that helpful. I did mention it to her before, but I'm no doctor so none of the above could possibly be a scientific good enough reason. My GP came up with a few reasons of her own.

1/ You've just given up smoking, it's the lack of nicotine in your body that makes you sleepy.
2/ The medications you are taking do list sleepiness as a side effect but this usually happens only at the beginning of treatment.
3/ You need to exercise more, because exercise is good for you and will help you sleep better and make your hair grow back, cure stomach aches and make you more attractive to the opposite sex . ( Ok...she didn't say those last few words )

Not so long ago I use to exercise about 4 hours per day and smoke a pack of cigarettes as well and I still felt sleepy....so go figure !

When I visit my GP she expects me to tell her what is wrong with me....Now I'm not the one with the degree and the yacht anchered off the bahamas so how come I'm supposed to make my own diagnostic.? I try to explain how I feel only so that she can spend the rest of the appointment telling me how misinformed I am and that there is nothing to worry about.

Some doctors really bug me especially the all mighty OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST. I've seen many of them after my accident. What on earth is an occupational therapist ? ...they specialise in occupational injuries like papercuts and broken nails ?

I remember seeing this guy ( specialist in occupational therapy) who upon looking at my swollen ankle ( yes he had xray vision) told me that it was easily explainable, the reason your ankle is swollen is because you are wearing a tight sock. It obviously couldn't have been because 6 months earlier I had suffered a crush fracture of my ankle and it was taking a long time to heal....no it was the tight sock !.....he didn't explain why the other ankle wasn't swollen even though I was wearing the same sock on the other foot...I must admit that he was an insurance doctor but that doesn't give him a licence to be a total moron.

Three months after seeing this bullshit artist I underwent surgery on my ankle for some shredded tendon repairs...amazing what a tight sock can do..

And then there was the occupational therapist at my old place of work who insisted on talking to me for an hour to explain how to sit correctly at my desk, stressing how important it is to keep all objects close to my body so that no overreaching takes place . We have to minimize aggravating your wrist and your shoulder. However he couldn't see anything wrong with giving me some task involving lifting 10 kg boxes in a repetitive manner.

Occupational therapists are just a bunch of people who couldn't cut in med school and had to find shitty alternatives.

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