What careers/jobs best suited for constantly tired people?

wasted my time.

Nasa will pay you $18,000 to lay in bed for 70 days. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/need-some-t ... or-70-days


I think it is possible to get disability benefits for sleep apnea, my parents were telling me someone they knew received long term disability benefits for sleep apnea.

Why isn't your treatment working?

Can you get some kind of therapy 'on the house' even short term? You seem obviously depressed apart from anything and that can really affect not only your confidence but ability, plus you do need to go farther for help (like here - lots of experienced and smart people) with Cpap, even if previous tries didn't help. You shouldn't be living like that nor having to sound that way. Give yourself one more chance at least!

Are you sure it's only sleep apnea that is responsible for your fatigue?

It would help if you could post some data--people here can take a look and see to what degree poorly treated apnea may be a factor.

But it may not be just apnea that's the problem. Conventional medicine is rotten at issues like this. Try to find a functional or integrative MD who can think outside the box to help you figure this out.

There are hundreds of thousands of people just like you who have great job security with the government!

In all seriousness though, you really sound to me like you are depressed, or dealing with something other than sleep apnea. I've been there myself with anxiety and depression, and you have to work hard to pull yourself out of it, if that is what is ailing you. Medication can help, but there is no magic pill that will solve all your problems.

Are you sedentary at your job right now? If so, exercise and get some fresh air. Some of the days that I am the most tired and fatigued are when I'm locked down to a desk and not moving. Maybe see about getting some counseling, talk to someone at church if you're religious, maybe do some volunteer work to help you feel better about yourself and your situation.

Good luck, and hang in there.

In the winter, many people suffer from SAD, (seasonal affective disorder).
I avoid dark places in the winter, turn the lights on wherever I am.
This used to drive my MIL nuts! She was fixated on saving electricity. Sat around in the dark.
It is not worth it if it makes you sick.
Light is my drug of choice. Luckily, it's legal.

chunkyfrog wrote:In the winter, many people suffer from SAD, (seasonal affective disorder).
I avoid dark places in the winter, turn the lights on wherever I am.
This used to drive my MIL nuts! She was fixated on saving electricity. Sat around in the dark.
It is not worth it if it makes you sick.
Light is my drug of choice. Luckily, it's legal.

I used to suffer from SAD! I'd get it 6 days a week, at work, because I couldn't find a way to feed my family, without working. I didn't realize it wasn't my responsibility, the government was there, and it was their job to take from working people, and give to those that didn't want to work. Jim

I think that the DMV or US Post Office has just the job for you, you'd fit right in with those folks. Sorry, couldn't resist, your description of yourself took me there.

I'm very curious about the statement involving "having a cpap". Are you actually using your cpap? Are you looking at your data to see if it's working for you? You can get lots of help here on this forum with getting going with looking at your sleep data, and using that to help make your therapy work more optimally. Since that's something that you can do, and you seem to be at odds about what you can do, I'd suggest getting started in that direction by listing your cpap equipment in your profile, and reading some postings about how to get your sleep data from your cpap to your computer in a usable way.

Once you've taken a shot at getting your sleep apnea therapy to work better, which you can do fairly quickly with help here, and if you don't feel better then, there must be other things going on that aren't sleep apnea per se. I think that you can make progress with this, just take that first step of looking at your sleep apnea therapy, and seeing if you can't improve that.

Guys, be nice! Depression is a REAL THING! It is not laziness, or sloth.
It immobilizes you, and destroys your motivation, sometimes your will to live and ability to love.
I remember having to work myself into a rage to clean house!
For a while, I had to force myself to go through the motions of loving my family.
Cpap finally gave me the ability to think clearly and feel NORMAL.

Jim, do you think you can, one time, just shut down your nasty rhetoric about working people? It's just so much old long-ago-shown to be garbage and is so not appropriate for someone like this, never mind a million others who are desperate to work and wouldn't take handouts if you paid them to do it? Who died and made you the arbiter of everyone? You're hurting and insulting good people, your ignorance is appalling and your humanity nonexistent. Lay off already, we've so had enough.

Besides, there is NO WAY anyone will believe you are Donald's illegitimate progeny, and has a claim to his riches.

Julie wrote:Jim, do you think you can, one time, just shut down your nasty rhetoric about working people? It's just so much old long-ago-shown to be garbage and is so not appropriate for someone like this, never mind a million others who are desperate to work and wouldn't take handouts if you paid them to do it? Who died and made you the arbiter of everyone? You're hurting and insulting good people, your ignorance is appalling and your humanity nonexistent. Lay off already, we've so had enough.

Not sure about the SOW'S in Canada, but here in the USA ours are running out of faucets to latch onto. In the meantime socialists and liberals, like you continue to express the virtues of not pulling your own weight, to support yourselves and your families. You are bent to extending your liberal ideals over your border, but nowdays borders are bad, kind of like working for a living and supporting your family.

When you get people to work and pull their own weight, I won't have anything to complain about, I'll have to find something else, I'm sure you will provide more ideas.

I didn't know SAD was Depression, also didn't know depression could be cured by lighting, may have to stop those $750.00 risperdal injections my wife has to get every two weeks. I could better afford a few light bulbs. I could tell you about real depression, we have fought it every sense 1977.

I'm all for Lights and O2, for the cure. Unfortunately it took work provided it. Jim

The Government never has, when I checked the Sow was full up, and the Runts were lined up for miles, so I went to work, and fed my family.

Julie wrote:Jim, do you think you can, one time, just shut down your nasty rhetoric about working people? It's just so much old long-ago-shown to be garbage and is so not appropriate for someone like this, never mind a million others who are desperate to work and wouldn't take handouts if you paid them to do it? Who died and made you the arbiter of everyone? You're hurting and insulting good people, your ignorance is appalling and your humanity nonexistent. Lay off already, we've so had enough.

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I was wrong, goof, you MUST be related to Trump.
Your hate and baseless vitriol has no place in polite society.

Goofproof wrote: so I went to work, and fed my family.

and now, you sit around, collect your government check, and belittle other people for fun.

atta boy, Jimbo.

I 'spose your avatar is appropriate, since your plumbers crack is all you show on this forum.