While some people are full of energy every day, others can’t help but feel tired all the time. The proverbial “springtime sleepiness and autumn fatigue” makes it easy to overlook the real causes of fatigue.
Always feel tired itself is a sign of disease, find the cause of the disease to treat the symptoms, as soon as possible to find vitality.
Hypothyroidism
General fatigue, easily sleepy, poor mental health, feel tired. Modern people from time to time, these symptoms, but not did not sleep well, to be alert may be a problem with the thyroid gland.
The following ten symptoms are recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner:
- Prone to sleepiness and low stamina and energy;
- Sluggish thinking, difficulty concentrating and memory loss;
- Weight gain and dry skin;
- Fingernails becoming brittle and easily broken;
- Feeling cold often;
- Being easily depressed and moody;
- Easily constipated;
- Feeling of stiffness and pain in muscles and bones and numbness in hands;
- Increased blood pressure or slowed heartbeat;
- Elevated cholesterol levels.
Mild hypothyroidism, generally do not need special treatment, diet therapy can be, eat some appropriate seafood.
Moderate and severe hypothyroidism, must use thyroid hormone replacement therapy. The specific dosage needs to vary from person to person, elderly patients do not require too much supplement, as long as the ultra-sensitive thyrotropin control within the normal level can be. Hypothyroidism is generally irreversible and requires lifelong replacement therapy.
Sleep apnea
After waking up and still tired, or even drowsiness, we should look at the night sleep whether snoring, long-term snoring is the first thing that affects the quality of sleep, and in the long run, it will also affect the blood pressure and heart rhythm.
If you snore for a short period of time, you don’t need to be overly alarmed, and most of the snoring will disappear after sufficient rest and cold relief.
When the following characteristics appear, it may be sleep apnea syndrome, which should be treated in time in order to relieve drowsiness and fatigue, such as: uneven sound of snoring, paroxysmal apnea phenomenon.
Impairment of daytime functioning occurs, such as getting up in the morning with dry mouth, drowsiness, fatigue, poor concentration, and memory loss. It is also important to be aware of the presence of impaired daytime mood, such as irritability, irritability, depression, and anxiety.
Sleepiness and waking up easily at night. Snoring in children may lead to symptoms such as bedwetting even after the child has grown older.
Postprandial hypotension
Every day after breakfast to sleep for a while, after lunch on the dizziness, the whole body no energy, especially want to sleep, feel walking are not stable. Long-term occurrence of this situation, is the body to our low blood pressure “warning signals”.
Postprandial hypotension standard is within 2 hours after the meal, systolic blood pressure (high pressure) fell ≥ 20 mm Hg; or preprandial systolic blood pressure (high pressure) in 100 mm Hg or higher, after the meal down to 90 mm Hg or less; sometimes even if the blood pressure drop did not reach the standard, but there are patients with dizziness, fatigue, lethargy, or even fainting and other hypotensive reactions, is also considered to be postprandial hypotension.
Postprandial hypotension is more common in the sick elderly, such as originally suffered from hypertension, diabetes and other elderly. Postprandial hypotension occurs most frequently after breakfast, followed by Chinese food and dinner.
The occurrence of postprandial hypotension is related to cardiovascular arteriosclerosis, cardiac function decline, and the decline of various blood pressure regulation mechanisms in the elderly. To prevent postprandial hypotension, you can communicate with your attending physician and adjust the duration of antihypertensive medication and monitor your blood pressure according to the specific situation.
Diabetes
Can’t get up the spirit always feel lethargic …… Relatively speaking, diabetic patients are more prone to symptoms of fatigue. Different people with diabetes have different causes of fatigue, and symptomatic treatment can effectively relieve fatigue.
There are four reasons why people with diabetes experience fatigue. Insulin deficiency or resistance, loss of potassium ions, and the effects of complications can all cause lethargy.
To relieve the fatigue caused by diabetes, the first step should be to control the blood sugar. When the patient suddenly experiences an aggravation of weakness, it is important to pay attention to whether hypoglycaemia occurs. Appropriate exercise can increase the insulin sensitivity of diabetic patients and improve the feeling of fatigue.
For patients taking metformin for a long time, it is easy to cause vitamin B12 deficiency, which is also easy to cause the patient’s feeling of fatigue, and we should pay attention to vitamin B12 supplementation in the process of medication. At the same time, Chinese medicine can be used to “benefit qi and nourish yin”, “clearing heat and moistening dryness”, “tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the spleen” and other methods of diagnosis and treatment prescription therapy or through dietary therapy to improve the patient’s symptoms of fatigue.
Cancer-caused fatigue
Nearly more than 70% of cancer patients experience persistent fatigue symptoms, which is very painful to the patients. In fact, this is often referred to as cancer-caused fatigue in clinical practice. Fatigue should be treated as positively as cancer.
Cancer-related fatigue is different from other kinds of fatigue in that this kind of fatigue is not proportional to the recent physical exertion. Even if you don’t work and rest every day, you still don’t feel energetic, and this kind of fatigue can’t be relieved by rest and sleep.
The mechanism of cancer-related fatigue is quite complex, and patients need to treat it seriously as a “complication” of cancer.
Physical activity should be maintained. A nutritional support plan should be formulated after a thorough assessment of the nutritional status by a doctor. Complications such as pain, anaemia and sleep disorders can cause fatigue, which can be relieved by medication. It is also important for patients to overcome cancer fatigue and improve their mood. External therapies in Chinese medicine, such as acupuncture, moxibustion and fire acupuncture, can also improve cancer-related fatigue more quickly and effectively.
No Cause, Test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Feeling tired all the time is a disease in itself, called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), which needs to be taken seriously.
If 4 or more of the following symptoms occur at the same time, and these symptoms have persisted or recurred for 6 months or longer, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible to see if you have chronic fatigue syndrome.
- Short-term memory loss or inability to concentrate;
- Sore throat;
- Swollen, painful lymph nodes in the neck or armpits;
- Muscle aches and pains;
- Pain in multiple joints not accompanied by redness or swelling;
- Headaches, but with a different type, manner and severity of attack than before;
- Energy that does not return even after sleep; fatigue lasting more than 24 hours after physical or mental work.