A month ago, I went to my doctor about my sleep problems. and I was the one to ask for a blood test, since I suspected that it may have been somewhat hormonal in nature. When I got my blood test results back, it turned out that two things were likely the cause:

1. I've always been anemic, but my iron levels were at 7% saturation. For reference, the normal levels are 20-50% saturation. My Ferritin (which is a protein related to iron storage) was at 4ng/mL, compared to normal levels of 13-150ng/mL. Basically, very bad on the iron front.

2. Much more concerningly, my blood glucose levels were at 55mg/dL. Severe low blood sugar -- which causes risk of passing out -- is at or below 54mg/dL. This is a level usually only hit by diabetics on a sugar crash. For me to test at those levels having eaten a meal two hours beforehand is highly concerning. It is likely that if I had continued at that route, I would have ended up literally dead.

Since then, I have been working on eating more. The other concerning thing is my heartrate. My mother purchased a FitBit for me, and this has allowed for us to see how truly terrible my heartrate has been. This is likely related to the anemia & lack of food intake, but my heartrate regularly hits 170BPM... still. Again, for reference, normal heartrate is around 90BPM.

Please don't freak out about this ( I've already done more than enough for the both of us) -- as I said, I received this information a month ago, and have since then been working with my doctors and my mother to course correct. While my energy levels haven't improved much, my sleep definitely has ( likely due to new sleep medication ); so I'm a lot more lucid as a result.