With seemingly harmless symptoms such as
fatigue, lethargy, drowsiness, each of us is surely familiar. In some people, they occur exclusively in the offseason due to a lack of vitamins and nutrients. However, for many such symptoms do not disappear even with the onset of spring, but on the contrary, worsen even more, worsening the performance and condition of the body as a whole. In this article, we will consider the main causes of fatigue, lethargy, and drowsiness.
Neurasthenia
The signs we consider quite often indicate diseases associated with depletion of the nervous system. The main symptoms of neurasthenia are lethargy, weakness, fatigue, daytime sleepiness, nausea, dizziness, and migraine. Moreover, even after resting, the above symptoms do not disappear. Patients suffering from neurasthenia are very sensitive to bright light, noise, loud sounds. Quite often, they complain of poor memory. A similar disease can occur as a result of starvation, with increased physical exertion, nervous stress, constant lack of sleep, etc.
Chronic fatigue syndrome
With this ailment, the patient's performance decreases almost twice. At the same time, any business that a person previously dealt with fairly easily seems to him overwhelming. Signs of the disease are as follows: causeless exhaustion, muscle weakness , joint pain, forgetfulness, lethargy, fatigue, drowsiness. The causes of the disease are due to the characteristics of modern life. The intense rhythm, psychological stress, constant lack of sleep and overwork, a large amount of information - everything gradually accumulates, causing a constant feeling of fatigue. In addition, prolonged sitting at a computer in the absence of physical activity entails tension in the muscles of the shoulders, back, and lower back. Therefore, it is workaholics who most often suffer from this syndrome.
Endocrine disruption
Symptoms of "fatigue, drowsiness, lethargy" very often occur in women during menopause. Moreover, against the background of the main manifestations, irritability, a breakdown, excessive tearfulness, and a decrease in intellectual and physical abilities often appear. Very often daytime sleepiness is the result of nighttime insomnia. There are cases when, against the background of endocrine disruptions, severe depression develops.
Acute central nervous system poisoning
Fatigue, lethargy, drowsiness can also indicate intoxication, which arose as a result of inhibition of the central nervous system by poisons of chemical, bacterial or plant origin. At the same time, even some substances that act on the central nervous system excitingly (alcohol), at a high concentration, can cause exhaustion, and in more severe cases - to whom. The main symptoms can be supplemented by headache, vomiting, weakness, nausea. It is difficult for a patient to swallow; he has double vision. Often in such cases, a narrowing of the pupils is observed .
Latent depression
It is characterized by sleep disturbance. A person can stay awake for a long time in the evening, and in the morning it is difficult for him to get out of bed. In this case, as a rule, fatigue, lethargy, drowsiness are observed in the morning. Depression is often accompanied by somatic disorders such as heart palpitations, constipation, chest pain.