Why Am I Always Tired? Avoid These 6 Energy Vampires | Exhausted
Most of the time fatigue can be traced to one or more lifestyle issues, such as poor sleep habits or lack of exercise. Fatigue can be caused by a medicine or linked to depression. Sometimes fatigue is a symptom of an illness that needs treatment.
Lifestyle factors
Fatigue may be related to:
- Alcohol or drug use
- Eating poorly
- Medicines, such as ones used to treat allergies or coughs
- Not enough sleep
- Too little physical activity
- Too much physical activity
- Adrenal insufficiency
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Anemia — a condition in which the body doesn’t get oxygen due to a lack of healthy red blood cells.
- Anxiety disorders
- Cancer
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Chronic infection or inflammation
- Chronic kidney disease
- COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) — the blanket term for a group of diseases that block airflow from the lungs — including emphysema.
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Depression (major depressive disorder) or other mood disorders
- Diabetes
- Fibromyalgia
- Grief
- Heart disease
- Heart failure
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- HIV/AIDS
- Hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid)
- Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid)
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
- Liver disease
- Low vitamin D
- Lupus
- Medicines and treatments, such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, pain medicines, heart medicines and antidepressants
- Mononucleosis
- Multiple sclerosis
- Obesity
- Parkinson’s disease
- Physical or emotional abuse
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pregnancy
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sleep apnea — a condition in which breathing stops and starts many times during sleep.
- Stress
- Traumatic brain injury
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- https://www.mayoclinic.org/symptoms/fatigue/basics/causes/sym-20050894
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