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10 Medical Conditions That May Make You Tired All The Time

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    1. Chronic fatigue syndrome

    Chronic fatigue syndrome (also called myalgic encephalomyelitis or ME) is a severe and disabling tiredness that goes on for at least six months. There are usually other symptoms, such as a sore throat, muscle or joint pain and headache.

    2. Anaemia

    One of the most common medical reasons for feeling constantly run down is iron deficiency anaemia. It affects around one in 20 men and post-menopausal women, but may be even more common in women who are still having periods.

    Typically, you’ll feel you can’t be bothered to do anything, your muscles will feel heavy and you’ll get tired very quickly. Women with heavy periods and pregnant women are especially prone to anaemia.

    3. Coeliac disease

    Is a type of food intolerance where your body reacts badly when you eat gluten, a substance found in bread, cakes and cereals. There are 250,000 diagnosed cases in the UK, but research suggests that up to 90% of sufferers don’t know they have it. Other symptoms of coeliac disease, apart from tiredness, are diarrhoea, anaemia and weight loss.

    4. Sleep apnoea

    Sleep apnoea is a condition where your throat narrows or closes during sleep and repeatedly interrupts your breathing. This results in bad snoring and a drop in your blood's oxygen levels. The difficulty in breathing means that you wake up often in the night, and feel exhausted the next day.
    It’s most common in overweight, middle-aged men. Drinking alcohol and smoking makes it worse.

    5. Underactive thyroid

    An underactive thyroid gland means that you have too little thyroid hormone (thyroxine) in your body. This makes you feel tired. You’re also likely to put on weight and have aching muscles. It’s most common in women, and it happens more often as you get older.

    6. Diabetes

    One of the main symptoms of diabetes, a long-term condition caused by too much sugar in the blood, is feeling very tired. The other key symptoms are feeling very thirsty, going to the toilet a lot, and weight loss.

    7. Glandular fever

    Glandular fever is a common viral infection that causes fatigue along with fever, sore throat and swollen glands. Most cases happen in teenagers and young adults. Usually, glandular fever symptoms clear up within four to six weeks, but the fatigue can linger for several more months.

    8. Depression


    As well as making you feel very sad, depression can also make you feel drained of energy. And it can stop you dropping off to sleep or cause you to wake up early in the morning, which makes you feel more tired during the day.

    9. Restless legs


    This is when you get uncomfortable sensations in your legs, which keep you awake at night. You might have an overwhelming urge to keep moving your legs, or a deep ache in your legs, or your legs might jerk spontaneously through the night. Whatever your symptoms, your sleep will be disrupted and of poor quality, so you’ll feel very tired through the day.

    10. Anxiety


    Feeling anxious is sometimes perfectly normal. However, some people have constant, uncontrollable feelings of anxiety, which are so strong that they affect their daily life. Doctors call this generalised anxiety disorder (GAD). It affects around around one in 20 people in the UK. As well as feeling worried and irritable, people with GAD often feel tired.

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    one thing left: infection
     

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    Wat abt pregnancy?
     

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    Sepsis with pyrexia .I mean any kind of infection with pyrexia or non pyrexia can cause fatigue. Right ?
     

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    thanks. interesting.
     

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    Flu with pyrexia or without pyrexia can cause fatigue without forgetting Paludisme/Malaria .
     

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    Med school induced sleep depravation ;-) ;-) ;-)
     

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    Women with heavy periods and those who are pregnant are prone to Anaemia and so, they can, in turn, suffer tiredness.
     

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    Burn-out syndrome

    Anemia of different causes, not just lack of iron (malnutrition, other deficiencies of folic acid/B vitamins/aminoacids, autoimmune intestinal disorders, other intestinal inflammations-ex - infectious, , intestinal disbacteriosis, hemorages- obvious, ocult or menses)

    Pulmonary disorders that affect oxygenation, Smoking

    Dehydration and Electrolytes imbalances

    Hypo-corticism

    Hypo-pituitarism (hypo-gonadism, …)

    Hepatic disorders, alcohol consumption

    Neurological disorders (Parkinson, Alzheimer, …)

    Neuro-muscular disorders (fibro-myalgia, ...)

    Muscle disorders (miastenia gravis, …)

    Lots of sleep disorders, not just sleep apnea, sleep deprivation, or restless legs; medication that make sleep superficial or affect the phases of sleep, neurological disorders that affect sleep through neurotransmitters
     

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    I think a better article would be 10 Medical classes that may make you tired ;-)

    A&P
    OChem
    Cell-Chem
    Histology/Pathology
    Bio Ethics
    Virology
    Pharma
    Radiology
    Rounds
    Wet lab
     

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    So good information! But what about recommendations? Welcome to our Clinic of healthy vessels for eradicate of all above conditions within 20-25 days in the capital of Oman or Ukraine. We incklueding in the Clinic Flammer-syndrom instead of Underactive thyroid & Diabetes I (not type II).
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