What to do about low energy?

Chronic fatigue is a common complaint with uc patients. Often fatigue is the worst when we're flaring and it gets better as we heal. Sometimes fatigue persists even when we're doing well uc symptom wise.

Have you had a recent blood test to check for anemia (low iron), vitamin D and B? Low levels for any of those can result in fatigue and it's common to have low values in any of those as a complication of having uc.

This might sound like it makes no sense but when I get more than eight hours of sleep I am normally very tired. I try to get about 7-7.5 hours a night. Also try exercising daily. It helps a lot. If you are flaring I would understand if you are tired. Back when I had a bad flare I was getting between 12-14 hours a day and it was still hard to function. I hope this helps.

Constipation makes me very exhausted so I eat carefully and healthily to prevent that.
Healing your inflammation is the best way to get more energy but that is the whole goal isn't it?

Chicken broth is a great healer for my gut along with well cooked spinach. Veggie juice also gives me a boost.
Sometimes I make it myself and other times I buy a large size (organic carrot juice) at the store and freeze cubes of it to take out when needed (so it doesn't go stale).

And of course eliminate sugar as much as possible which is inflammatory.

Some of my past RX meds also made my body fatigued, 6mp for one. When I quit that energy returned. If you are doing well on your meds however that's a tough decision. 6mp didn't help me so not tough to quit.