Any thoughts what could be wrong?

[hc4361]

My 50ish year old cousin is staying with us for a few days.

She is sleeping a LOT. She went to bed at 11pm last night, slept right through till 11 am, got up and had breakfast; back to bed at 12.30 and up at 3.30.

She insists she doesn't feel ill, just has a real need for sleep. Apparently it has been going on for a few weeks.

She also cannot control her body temperature - she is too hot one minute and needs to go outside to cool down; later she is very cold and needs the heating on.

She has other vague, slight symptoms - dull headache at the top of her head; slight dizziness when she turns over in bed; tingling in hands.
Oh, and boils in her groin.

This is not connected to the menopause, by the way.

This is just so unlike her. Anyone have any suggestions?

[yogasun]

Diabetes? Thyroid trouble? Anaemia ? - just a lay person commenting - where's Sqad?!

[Prudie]

I really don't know but I would wonder at under-active thyroid. The boils in the groin seem odd though as if there was an umderlying infection. Has she not been concerned enough to go to GP?

[emmie]

would have suggested thyroid but if that has been ruled out. However is she sure they are boils and not enlarged glands. If so a trip to the doctor is in order..

[hc4361]

Thanks for replies so far. She hasn't been to the GP because her symptoms are so vague and she embarrassed about telling him she is 'tired all the time'.

I will certainly encourage her to go. She says she has been like this for about a month and has had to cancel plans because of it.

[Jemisa]

Is she diabetic? tell her to get a blood test. Sounds like it to me.

Sqad will be on in the morning he'll give you a better idea.

jem

[Sqad]

The "guys" are correct.

Diabetes and an underactive thyroid need to be excluded.

[hc4361]

Thanks all - she will definitely be going to the doctor's.

[LazyGun]

It could be underactive thyroid, it could be anaemia; it could just be a build up of lots of little stresses and complications. Could be a lot of things, in other words ;)

And "Tired all The Time" or TATT is, as Sqad will tell you, a very common symptom.
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/tiredness-and-fatigue/Pages/why-am-I-tired.aspx