You’ve already tried a peri-coach, a naturopath, a functional GP, the DUTCH test, two podcasts that promised the answer. This one’s different in one specific way — it’s the work-up, not another protocol.

Tiredness has many causes — including a few that need urgent care. The first step of this tool is a 30-second safety check sourced from current AU guidelines (RACGP / Cancer Council / Beyond Blue / Heart Foundation / Stroke Foundation / NICE NG12). Anything that needs your GP today — or 000 — is flagged before anything else.

The work-up most thorough appointments include — on one page, before you go in

The symptom is real. The terrain is upstream. Both are true.

Your bloods came back “normal.” You still don’t feel normal. A thorough work-up for fatigue is often skipped under 10-minute consult limits — not a moral failing on anyone’s part, a structural one. So we built the page you wish you’d had: the questions, the validated screens, and the AU-specific context, in the order a good GP would walk you through if the clock weren’t on.

See what this is, in 90 seconds — before you commit

Type one line into the field below. The thing you’d tell a friend at 11pm about why you’re tired. Within 90 seconds, the page surfaces a calibrated mechanism observation against the AU primary literature — what the pattern most commonly turns out to be when people describe it that way, with one cited source you can read.

No card. No email. Nothing to subscribe to. Just the observation.

If it lands — and you want the full work-up, the validated screens, and the prep sheet you hand your GP — there’s a button at the bottom.

Try the 90-second mechanism check

Free. No card. No email at this step.

How the full work-up works

A 30-second safety check — non-skippable. Sourced from current AU guidelines, not opinion. Anything that needs same-day care routes there first.
A short sequential question set across what a thorough work-up usually covers — medications, sleep, mood, the validated screens that matter, and the 12-panel of clinical causes a good GP considers for persistent fatigue.
One page you take to your own GP — the right questions, in the right order, with the AU MBS/PBS context where it changes things. The kind of preparation that makes a short appointment count.

You bring the data. You and your GP order the tests. We don’t. The tool helps you notice, understand, and prepare — in plain language.

Start the full work-up — free, no card

Created by Dr HB Lo, integrative GP (AHPRA MED0001212640, FACRRM). Every clinical claim cited to AU primary literature. The cited clinical manuals behind this tool sit at drhblo.com/learn.

What this is and is not

The Tiredness Workup is an educational tool — general health information for adults in Australia. Using it doesn’t create a doctor-patient relationship, and it isn’t a substitute for an appointment with your own GP. You and your GP decide what tests to order and what to do with the results.

Your free-text answers inside the tool stay inside the tool. They aren’t attached to your email or any marketing profile — Privacy Act APP 11.2, and a hard rule of how this was built.

If you are in crisis, please call 000, or Lifeline 13 11 14, or Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636, or 13YARN 13 92 76.

drhblo.com. See you in there.

This is not a cop-out — it's the reason the consult exists. You are biochemically unique. Anything I write here may apply to you completely, in part, or not at all, and there is no honest way to know in advance. Some people are allergic to peanuts; your biochemistry has its own particulars, and uncovering them is its own work — done by experimenting on yourself, with informed starting points. Everything on this page is general in nature for exactly that reason. The specific version of any of this is a conversation, not an article.