How do you explain this exhaustion

so i finish a job and i’m just… empty. completely wiped. tsh normal, free t3 fine, everything in range.

my endocrinologist says the labs look good. the guys i work with see me all day then i mention needing to just sit for hours after and they’re like, isn’t that just being tired. nah. it’s different.

it’s like my body completely shut down. no energy, no brain, nothing. my partner thinks i’m exaggerating because i look fine. but there’s this gap between what labs show and how completely wrecked i feel.

is anyone else dealing with this? like how do you actually describe it to people who can’t see it?

That gap between what labs show and how completely wrecked you feel is the whole problem, isn’t it. The issue is that the “normal” label on the lab report is doing more work than the number