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15 Reasons You Are Tired All The Time Despite Sleeping Well

CUREJOY EDITORIAL 
FEB 28, 2018



Excessive tiredness isn't always a side effect of a busy life. While you can reverse lifestyle factors like irregular sleep hours, heavy drinking, or dehydration, some causes are more serious. These include sleep-disrupting problems like sleep apnea and restless leg syndrome, psychological ones like depression and anxiety, and physiological causes like anemia, hypothyroidism, diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, and brain tumor.

Feeling tired, lethargic, or fatigued all the time isn’t normal, especially after you sleep the requisite 7 to 9 hours a night. So you shouldn’t have to “live with it.” Even as you ask yourself “why am I so tired all the time?” You may be tempted to ignore tiredness as a sign of a busy life. But it is often a symptom of some other health problem. Watch out for other symptoms to differentiate between the numerous possible conditions that cause such fatigue.

Here’s a roundup of the top physical, psychological, and lifestyle causes for chronic tiredness. Which box will you tick?

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3. Unhealthy Body Weight

Being overweight too can cause tiredness, as can a lack of physical activity, ironically.

4. Dehydration

If your body is perpetually dehydrated because of low water intake or because you lose more water than you drink, fatigue is a common symptom. Dehydration can also cause brain fog and make it difficult for you to concentrate. The tiredness after exercise can often be aggravated by inadequate intake of hydrating fluids and electrolytes. Drink at least 1.2 L water every day and more on days you exercise.

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7. Restless Leg Syndrome

Another problem that can cost you precious shut-eye and leave you feeling exhausted is restless leg syndrome. A neurological problem, it creates unpleasant sensation in your legs, resulting in an overwhelming urge to move them. Unfortunately, lying down to rest is counterproductive and can activate the problem, making it difficult to sleep properly. This can also happen while sitting. The natural remedies for restless leg syndrome include foods and supplements rich in iron and magnesium and herbal remedies like valerian and nutmeg.

8. Anxiety

Generalized anxiety disorder or GAD is a psychological condition which causes a sense of dread/unease, restlessness, and irritability. While anxiety can cause insomnia, a major reason for daytime tiredness, it can cause exhaustion in people who sleep well too. With anxiety, as with depression, the mind feels easily exhausted. Soon, the body too succumbs. Other physical symptoms that could tip you off about your fatigue being anxiety-linked are:

Dizziness
Irregular or fast heartbeats (palpitations)
Muscular aches
Sweating
Shortness of breath
Stomach ache
Dry mouth
Feeling sick
Pins and needles
Headaches
Insomnia

Interestingly, physical exercises like running can help lower anxiety effectively. While the exercise itself will tire you to an extent for the first few days, and help you fall asleep faster, soon it will make you feel more energetic.

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11. Anemia

Insufficient red blood cells to transport oxygen to various parts of the body and to every cell and tissue can leave you feeling winded. If you’ve noticed a general sense of weakness and shortness of breath, anemia may be to blame. Accompanying symptoms include headaches and difficulty concentrating. If the anemia is getting worse, you may find your nails turn brittle, your skin pale, and you feel lightheaded when you get up from a seated or supine position.11 Anemia is not just about an iron deficiency. Patients of hypothyroidism are often anemic because of the body’s inability to absorb the essential B12 vitamin. The top food sources of vitamin B12 include oysters, beef liver, eggs, and mackerel.

12. Diabetes

Many diabetics complain of feeling tired all the time. This extreme fatigue could be linked to the oscillation between high and low blood glucose levels. Sometimes, the endless rigor of the regimen of diabetes self-management can wear you down, leaving you depressed and exhausted.

The American Diabetes Association warns of other common symptoms of diabetes like feeling very thirsty or hungry, urinating often, numbness/tingling in the feet or hands (for those with type 2 diabetes), blurred vision, slow healing cuts and bruises, and even weight loss (in those with type 1 diabetes).

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15. Brain Tumor

Brain tumor can cause extreme tiredness despite extra sleep. But tiredness won’t be the standalone symptom. Other symptoms of brain tumor include an inexplicable headache in the morning, vomiting, and vision problems. The tiredness could be because of the seizures, headache, or nausea or because your body is using up most of its energy in fighting the tumor. Also, as the tumor makes simple everyday tasks a challenge, the extra amount of concentration and effort you need to put in everything may tire you out.

This sense of fatigue is often not cured by sleep or rest, even though as the tumor grows, you might be sleeping more than usual or falling asleep during the day. The tiredness is often accompanied by apathy, irritability, depression, or negative feelings about yourself and others.

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