What is fatigue?
Fatigue is a term used to describe an overall feeling of tiredness or lack of energy. It, not the same as feeling drowsy or sleepy when you are fatigued, you have no involution and no energy.
What is diabetic fatigue?
Fatigue is a common symptom of diabetes and can result from high blood sugar levels. People with type 2 diabetes experience extreme tiredness and fatigue that can disrupt their life and makes it difficult to function. The impact is so significant due to diabetes that experts term it as diabetic fatigue.
How many diabetic people are suffering from it?
Research of the American diabetes association shows that 61% of people with new and old diagnosed patients of type 2 diabetes report fatigue as a symptom and it also found that it is the second most common symptom and complaint of type 2 diabetes diagnosed patient.
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Causes of diabetic fatigue?
Changes in blood sugar levels
Tiredness and high blood sugar level
When a person eats, the body breaks down food into simple sugar glucose. In people with diabetes, the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or the body does not use insulin effectively as cells need insulin to absorb glucose effectively. If cells do not take enough glucose which provides energy will result in fatigue and weakness.
Tiredness and low blood sugar level
Low blood sugar can also cause fatigue especially in people who do not get enough warming that their blood sugar levels are dropping. A person can also feel fatigued after treatment of low blood sugar levels.
Other symptoms of diabetics can also contribute to person fatigue including.
- Frequent urinate
- Excessive thrust
- Extreme hunger despite eating
- Unexplained weight loss
- Blurred vision
All these symptoms account for feeling fatigue indirectly by contributing to an overall feeling of unwellness. These presented an uncomfortable sensitivity may have several mental and physical effects that lead to fatigue. As discomfort in the limbs, hands, and feet may make it difficult for a person with diabetes to fall asleep or stay asleep.
Diabetic Complication
People with diabetes may develop a complication that contributes to a feeling of fatigue. These complications develop in a person who has the condition when their blood level high provides complication include.
- Kidney problem including kidney failure
- Frequent infection
- Heart disease
- Nerve damage also know as DIABETIC NEUROPATHY
Advance effects of diabetes medication
Certain medications that a person may be used to treat the complication of diabetes and other health problem may also cause adverse effects that contribute to fatigue.
Mental and emotional health
Living with diabetes can often impact a person’s mental and emotional health. According to study people with diabetes may be around two to three more likely to experience depression. These people also have an anxiety problems. Therefore both depression and anxiety can also cause an increased feeling of fatigue due to sleep disruption.
Many people with diabetes especially type 2 are overweight or above excessive body weight might contribute to fatigue.
- Lifestyle choices that may lead to weight gains such as lack of exercise or a diet that contains too much provided in junk food.
- The emerged energy a person thus it when mainly the body weight.
- Sleep description from the same complication of occupying such as sleep (mainly inability to sleep).
How to manage diabetes fatigue?
- Regularly monitoring blood sugar level
- Take the appropriate diabetes medication and following a doctor’s instructions clearly.
- Seek appropriate diet plan advised by diabetic.
- Getting regular exercise.
- Take physiotherapy whenever required as advised by the physician.
- Getting regular exercise.
- Managing and limiting stress.
When to see a doctor?
A person with diabetes should see their diabetes expert doctor regularly to monitor and manage their diabetes and prevent the diabetes patient from suffering diabetic fatigue which can lead to poor lifestyle continuation of the patient.
What do we do at sugarclinic.in ?
- We provide a dedicated team including the expert doctor who will be with you throughout the journey from the initial point of contact when you are enrolled with us.
- We provide appropriate treatment at your doorstep as our specified staff will monitor you throughout the journey and will measure your blood sugar levels with other tests and parameters regularly and connect you to our panel doctor who will provide the appropriate treatment.
- We provide proper advice on the diet by our expert dietician who will advise you what will be your plan of diet to maintain healthy sugar levels.
- Diabetes exercise and physiotherapy at your doorstep we provide expert, trained staff at your doorstep who will provide regular exercise through different modalities to make your life easy.
What you can expect from us?
You can expect a quality treatment at your doorstep with dedicated team experts who will make your life free of diabetic complications which will make your life easier by relieving you from fatigue and weakness through innovative measures and therapies.
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