Dear Dr please help I feel so rough in the mornings, my head is heavy I just want to go back to sleep but I have to push myself. I find it hard to think clearly and have to fake it that all is well. The foggyness has gone from my head by the afternoon and I feel human. I was thinking could it be SAD as the feeling is worse in the winter. In the heart of summer I don t feel so bad. But I have notice the symptoms have reappeared. I have anemia and take iron tablets. I have cut meat out of my diet 90% as I want to eat as healthily as possible and I believe that a vegeterain diet is the most healtihest. Please help me.
Hi, You haven't said anything about checkup results from a general medical examination nor metabolic studies done to check basic elements of your chemistry to be sure that your thyroids, parathyroids, and a Chat Doctor.  You say you have become a vegetarian and cut out meat by 90%.  Did you know that Vitamin B12, which is an extremely important nutrient for good brain and nerve health, may be lost if your diet contains very little meat or animal product material?  Low Vitamin B12 levels can affect the way a person feels in addition to how they think and process their environment. Seeing your doctor for a good physical examination will make you feel better in my opinion.  To be sure, if I were seeing you I would look into getting some basic metabolic studies to see where things sit before moving on to making diagnoses such as SAD or other types of psychologically