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15 Reasons You Are Tired All The Time Despite Sleeping Well
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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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1. Disrupted Sleep Routine
Disturbed sleep may not always be due to health problems or medical conditions. Sometimes, lifestyle choices you make could interfere with your sleep too. Whether due to working a shift job, clubbing into the wee hours, or tending to a baby at home, a disrupted sleep routine can upset your body’s natural rhythm and tire it out.
2. Alcohol And Caffeine Before Bed
Alcohol and poor diet can affect sleep. Don’t drink alcohol or caffeine before bed. Set up a nighttime ritual and be sure to get a nap during the day if you aren’t able to sleep through the night.
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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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5. Glandular Fever Or Mono
Also known as mononucleosis, or just “mono,” glandular fever usually attacks young adults. While this viral infection lasts just a couple of weeks, the fatigue, unfortunately, lingers on for months after. Other signs of this fever are a sore throat, high body temperature, and swollen glands in your neck.
6. Sleep Apnea
According to the American Sleep Association, an estimated 25 million adults in the United States have obstructive sleep apnea. In this condition, the airways are partially or completely blocked when a person is asleep. As a result, there is a pause in breathing and this can cause blood oxygen levels to drop. In a bid to restart breathing, the brain wakes you up, resulting in a very disturbed night of sleep. The result? You wake up feeling unrested and tired, with drowsiness that lasts through the day.
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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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