Behind an ordinary fatigue are hidden many diseases that, undetected in time, can seriously affect our health.
If you lately have more frequent fatigue you should take action. Give yourself 2-3 weeks, during which you must attempt to make some changes in your life. Try to sleep more, giving to your body the needed rest, if you have a chaotic social life, try to relax a while, adopt a healthy diet, drink enough fluids, make sure you take some vitamins and reduce consumption of caffeine and alcohol.
If even after these changes, your mood has not changed and you still feel very tired, then you have to ask for help. Excessive fatigue can be a symptom of serious medical problems that caught in early stages can be treated.
Here are seven of the most common problems you may have:
Anemia
This condition is found most often in women with iron deficiency or in those who are going through a difficult period.
Fatigue is the result of insufficient number of red blood cells, which are responsible for the oxygenation of tissues and cells. People with anemia feel weak, tired and have trouble breathing. Anemia can be caused by a deficiency of iron or vitamins, internal bleeding or a chronic disease like cancer or kidney failure.
People especially prone to this disease are women that have not yet reached menopause and have an iron deficiency caused by blood loss during menstruation and a high consumption of iron during pregnancy or lactation.
Symptoms: Fatigue is the main symptom. In addition it is felt weakness, lack of concentration, accelerated heart beats, chest pain and headaches. Making light exercise or walking short distances, can be extremely tiring.
Diabetes
Over 2 million people are annually detected with type 2 diabetes, but according to statistics the number is much higher.
Sugar, called glucose, is the energy source that makes the body function. For people suffering from Type 2 diabetes is a difficult time, because there is no proper intake of glucose. Without power, they often feel exhausted and lacking energy.
Symptoms: In addition to the fatigue felt by people with diabetes, there is also hunger, weight loss, frequent urination, feeling of irritability, vaginal infections and blurred vision.
Thyroid disease
When thyroid hormones are not working properly, any trivial task may leave you done.
The thyroid gland is of the size of a tie knot, is found in the neck and is responsible for producing hormones that control metabolism. If thyroid hormones are too many this results to extra boost metabolism, or, if there is a small number of hormones, metabolism slows down.
Symptoms: Hyperthyroidism leads to muscle fatigue and weakness, first felt in the thighs. Other symptoms include unexplained weight loss, irregular menstruation, thirst and irregular heartbeats. Most often, hyperthyroidism is common in women aged 20-30 years, but happens to be found in older women or men.
Hypothyroidism cause the sensation of fatigue, concentration difficulties and muscle pain even in cases of less demanding activities. Other symptoms include weight gain due to fluid retention, feeling cold, irregular periods and constipation. Hypothyroidism is found in women over 50 years. Moreover, once he reached the age of 50 years, 10% of women suffer at least mid-level hypothyroidism.
Depression
Depression is a serious condition that affects your lifestyle. Is influencing your daily routine, how you sleep, eat and how you perceive yourself and others. Without treatment, symptoms of depression can be felt over a long period of time, or weeks, months or even years. It is therefore important to detect symptoms from the beginning and ask for help.
Symptoms: The first thing you should know is that symptoms of depression does not manifest in the same way in all cases. Depressed people experience changes in sleep patterns, lack of energy, memory problems, negativism, self-distrust and feelings of helplessness.
Rheumatoid arthritis
This condition is not easily diagnosed, so you must be careful to even more subtle clues.
Rheumatoid arthritis occurs when there is a change in the immune system that makes its own system to attack and destroy healthy tissue of the joints. Often, the disease causes irreversible changes in the bones and cartilage.
In terms of symptoms, they are harder to detect because they are common in many other diseases. The most common symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis are anemia and feelings of fatigue, poor appetite and lack of energy, symptoms also seen with another types of arthritis – fibromyalgia and lupus.
Your rheumatologist follows four criteria in detecting the disease:
– Painful, swollen, tender or stiff joints;
– Morning joint stiffness (can not move the joint);
– Nodules, which may be of different sizes, as a pea or larger.
Sleep apnea
If you suffer from sleep disorders and you’re used to wake up tired, no matter how much you rest, you may suffer from sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder and involves the appearance of repeated respiratory pauses during sleep. Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common type of apnea and requires coverage for a few seconds of the upper airways, leading to alert the brain to wake up to breathe again. A person suffering from apnea may stop breathing even 100 times per night.
Symptoms: sleep apnea is often detected by snoring and involves a feeling of fatigue the next day. Sleep apnea syndrome is a dangerous disease, can lead to heart disease, high blood and finally to produce a heart attack, so it is mandatory if these symptoms exist, to consult your doctor.
Chronic fatigue
People with chronic fatigue feel too tired to realize their day to day activities and feel exhausted even by the smallest effort. The most common symptoms are headaches and muscle pain, difficulty concentrating and slightly enlarged lymph nodes in the neck or armpit.