Fatigue is a feeling of constant exhaustion, burnout or lack of energy. It can be physical, mental or a combination of both. Severe fatigue makes it difficult for a person to get up in the morning and make it through his/her day, patient feels like he/she has an overwhelming urge to sleep, but may not feel refreshed after rest or sleep.

Fatigue is a symptom of a wide range of diseases, disorders and deficiencies affecting various parts of our body.

Some of the most common causes of fatigue include:

Infections

Many infections can cause fatigue, including:

• Mononucleosis.
• HIV.
• COVID-19.
• Influenza.
• Pneumonia.
• Lyme disease.

Heart and lung problems

Fatigue is a common symptom of cardiovascular and lung conditions such as:

• Heart disease.
• Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
• Emphysema.
• Congestive heart failure.

Mental health conditions

Fatigue due to certain mental health conditions may make it difficult or impossible to perform daily activities. These conditions may include:

• Depression.
• Anxiety.
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Autoimmune disorders

Fatigue is a symptom of many autoimmune diseases, including:

• Type 1 diabetes.
• Lupus.
• Multiple sclerosis (MS).
• Myasthenia gravis.
• Rheumatoid arthritis.
• Sjögren’s syndrome.

Hormonal imbalances

Problems with endocrine system (the glands in our body that make hormones) can lead to exhaustion. Hypothyroidism is a common cause of fatigue.

Other chronic conditions

Certain chronic conditions can cause severe, long-lasting fatigue. These include:

• Cancer.
• Chronic fatigue syndrome (also called CFS or myalgic encephalomyelitis).
• Fibromyalgia.
• Kidney disease.
• Type 2 diabetes.

Deficiencies

Anemia and other vitamin deficiencies (such as vitamin D or vitamin B12),  are often responsible for fatigue. can cause fatigue because the body needs plenty of fluids to function.

Weight issues and eating disorders

Certain weight issues and eating disorders can lead to fatigue and a range of other symptoms. These may include:

• Anorexia.
• Bulimia.
• Overweight/obesity.
• Underweight.

Fatigue often occurs along with other symptoms, such as:

• Depression and lack of desire to do the activities you once enjoyed.
• Trouble concentrating or focusing.
• Very low energy and motivation.
• Nervousness, anxiety and irritability.
• Muscle pain and weakness.

Other fatigue symptoms include:

• Tired eyes.
• Tired legs.
• Whole body tiredness.
• Stiff shoulders.
• Malaise (discomfort/uneasiness).
• Boredom.
• Impatience.

Possible causes

Many conditions, disorders, medications and lifestyle factors can cause fatigue. Fatigue can be temporary, or it can be a chronic condition (lasting six months or more), some possible causes are:

Lifestyle habits

Certain lifestyle factors can contribute to fatigue. These factors may include:

• Poor diet.
• Excessive alcohol use.
• Illegal drug use.
• Stress.
• Burnout.
• Inactive (sedentary) lifestyle.
• Jet lag.

Sleep disorders

Certain sleep disorders can cause long-term exhaustion and extreme fatigue. These may include:

• Insomnia.
• Sleep apnea.
• Narcolepsy.
• Shift work sleep disorder.

Allopathic treatment

Certain prescription drugs can relief fatigue, including:

• Benzodiazepines.
• Sedative-hypnotics.
• Antipsychotics.
• Anxiolytics.
• Opioids.
• Anticonvulsants.
• Beta-blockers.
• Antihistamines (Over the counter (OTC) drugs).
• Bone marrow.
• Chemotherapy.

Homeopathic Treatment for Fatigue

To find out what’s causing patient’s fatigue, doctor should ask questions about lifestyle and medications, conduct a physical examination, order some lab tests to check certain levels in patient’s blood and urine tests including pregnancy test.

If you’re advising allopathic drugs, talk to your patient about the risks and side effects of medication.

In different repertories, there are more than 800 medicines for fatigue under the various rubrics for weakness. Here are top-grade Homeopathic medicines for fatigue proven best in my practice said Dr. Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS:

Acidium Sarcolactinum

Sarcolacticum Acidium is the one of the best Homeopathic medicines for Fatigue patients. Morning sickness – Patient wake up feeling exhausted in the morning and the fatigue continues throughout the day. Whole body feels powerless, tired feeling, muscles weakness, muscular prostration, worse any exertion. Spinal neurasthenia, muscular weakness, dyspnea with myocardial weakness. Complains of tiredness and weariness from doing simple activities. Tired feeling in back and neck and shoulders. Paralytic weakness. Wrist tires easily from writing. Extreme weakness from climbing stairs. Stiffness of thigh and calves. Arms feel as if no strength in them. Cramp in the calves. Sleepless nights.

Zincum Metallicum

The proving picture cerebral depression and fatigue, the word “fag” covers a large part of zinc action. Tissues are worn out faster than they are repaired. Period of depression in disease. Marked anemia with profound prostration. Very sensitive to noise. Averse to work, to talk. Morning sickness, inclination to yawn. Unconquerable drowsiness.

Kalium Phosphoricum

One of the greatest nerve medicines. Prostration, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression. Weak and tired. Marked disturbance of the sympathetic nervous system. Slightest mental or physical exertion leads to extreme fatigue. Even a little work seems like a Herculean task. The person feels worn out with no energy. Insomnia and restless sleep. Weak memory, forgetfulness and impaired memory.

Stressed mind, worries, sadness and depression. Tiredness. Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy. Indisposition to meet people. Extreme lassitude and depression. Very nervous, starts easily, irritable. Brain-fag; hysteria; night terrors. Somnambulance. Loss of memory. Slightest labor seems a heavy task. Great despondency about business. Shyness; disinclined to converse.

Acid Phosphoricum

Fatigue. Mental and physical debility, drowsy, depressed, apathetic, indifferent state of mind to all things. Indifference; prostrated and stupefied with grief. The legs tremble in walking and the limbs are as difficult to control as the thoughts. Debility and weakness. Insomnia. Restlessness and precipitation.

Conium Maculatum

Cramps and cramp-like pains in different parts. Pain, as from fatigue in the limbs and joints, while at rest. Nocturnal pains and sufferings, which disturb sleep. Sexual excesses are also noted here. Depressed state of mind with an aversion to do any work and a desire for loneliness also are marked symptoms. Attacks of hysteria and hypochondriasis. Shocks in the tendons, trembling and convulsive shakings in the limbs. Sensation of fatigue especially. early in the morning in bed. Restlessness in the body, especially in the legs. Want of energy, and nervous debility. Consumption. Sudden sinking, while walking. Great fatigue and other sufferings, from walking in the open.

Acid Picricum

Pulse slow, small, very feeble. Great weakness, compelling to lie down; limbs hardly able to stir themselves; no anxiety, profound calm. Fatigue, mental and bodily; by least exertion fatigue going into actual paralysis; brain fatigue, nerve fatigue at the same time absence of anxiety-indifference, breaking down-lose appetite-sleep lightly and lie awake, weakness of back and legs; soreness of muscles and joints. Fatigue in professional neuroses. Desire to be alone. Irritable. Low spirits. Indifference, lack of will power to undertake anything. Disinclination for mental or physical work, aversion to talking or movement, with headache. Mental prostration after reading a little; after writing a little.

Kola or Sterculia

Fatigue due to any cause. This remedy gives power to sustain prolonged physical exertion without taking food and without taking food and without the feeling of fatigue. Neurasthenia. Regulates the circulation, is tonic and anti-diarrheic, regulates cardiac rhythm and acts diuretically. Weak heart. Drinking habit. Asthma. Gives power to endure prolonged physical exertion without taking food and without feeling fatigued.

Arsenicum Album

Arsenic is the medicine for the effects of feats of prolonged endurance. The Arsenic habit of the Styrian mountaineers has arisen from the discovery of its power of strengthening the muscles both of the limbs and of the breathing apparatus. Restlessness. Extreme tiredness. Lying down all the time due to excessive fatigue. Even a little exertion leads to utmost lack of strength and weakness. Standing, walking and the slightest exertion result in fatigue. Hesitate to do anything due to fear of exertion because they anticipate exhaustion. Extreme anxiety, irritability, desperately angry; almost furious. Despair, hopelessness, unutterable misery.

Murex Purpurea

Murex is a specific medicine for nervous, lively and affectionate women. Greatly fatigue, weak and run down. The sinking, all-gone sensation. Fatigue re- appears on sitting down. Depression of spirits, a sort of deep hypochondriacal state. Must lie down from weakness, but lying down increases all symptoms.

Onosmodium

Want of power of concentration or co-ordination produced by the drug. This appears in inability to concentrate thought; to focus eyes; to co-ordinate muscles; to judge the height of impedimenta on stepping. It also appears in vertigo and sensations of numbness and general muscular prostration. Next to the paretic symptoms come neuralgic pains. Chronic Fatigue patients who have head or vision complaints along with exhaustion. Blurring of vision or straining and weakness of eyes. Heaviness or pain in head, feels like drunk; can’t remember anything, can’t concentrate on simple tasks. Nocturnal pains in lower extremities, lumbago. Muscular prostration. Along with head or eye complaints, the foremost symptom of extreme weariness and tiredness is always present.

Panax quinquefolium or Ginseng

Ginseng is a specific remedy for general fatigue. bruised pains in small of back and thighs (on rising from bed), and great languor, with paralytic feelings. Yawning, and drowsiness with headache. Thinking difficult. Memory weak. Disposition to weep; anxious about the future. Vertigo, cloudiness, confusion, giddiness, and heaviness of the head. Vertigo, forgetfulness. Coldness, trembling, and numbness of the hands, with deadness of the fingers.

Anacardium Orientale

Mentally tired like students and thinkers, neurasthenics. Mental fatigue from higher studies or of literary persons, irresistible desire to swear and curse. Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc. Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence. Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with tendency to use violent language.

 Coffea Cruda

Insomnia. All time lot of thoughts and ideas that keeps a person awake. Restless sleep and frequent waking from sleep. Exalted mental activities. Body and mind excessively sensitive. Patients look exhausted, retire to dark places, close their eyes to avoid light; remain seated for long times or stretched on a bed. The least noise or motion excites the pain. They avoid talking, being talked to, or hearing others talk. Over-sensitiveness; weeping mood. Anguish; cannot be composed; is not able to hold the pen; trembles. Sentimental ecstasy; excited imagination; increased power to think. Excessive weeping and lamentations over trifles.

 Gelsemium

Weakness and dizziness but sleepiness throughout the day. Muscle weakness and pain, mostly in neck, shoulders, back, hips and legs, general state of paresis, mental and bodily (mental prostration), muscular system – relaxed; the limbs feel so heavy he can hardly move them. Trembling and weakness in limbs. Dullness of mind and poor concentration.

Selenium

Chronic Fatigue from extreme prostration, sexual indulgence. Weakness; a weakness involving all parts of the body; easy fatigue from any labor, night-watching, mental exertion, debility and sluggishness. Debility after fevers. Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep; strength leaves him suddenly, especially in hot weather.

Tuberculinum

Fatigue, almost total insomnia, and great debility. Here motion causes intense fatigue, aversion to work, wants to constant change. Hands trembling. Forgetful. Aversion to all types of works/labor, especially mental work. Sensibility to music. Does not like to be disturbed by people, trembling of hands.

Argentum Metallicum

Hysterical pain in all the cartilages, and hence all joints and bones, with tearing and bruised pains, tenderness and weakness. Pressure, cramp-like, pulling, principally in the limbs and in the bones. Bruising pain in sacrum and the joints of the lower limbs and in the joints. Sensation of soreness in the joints. Strong effects on the secretions of the mucous membranes.

Nux Vomica

Convulsions with consciousness. Spasms with tetanic rigidity of nearly all the muscles of the body. The irritability and excessive sensitiveness in patient’s nature. Dizziness of the mind, unsteady, wavering condition. Incontrollable irritability, and lamentations, complaints and cries. Attacks of convulsions, cramps, tetanus, and other spasms, sometimes with cries, throwing back of head, trembling of limbs, involuntary evacuation of feces and emission of urine, vomiting, profuse sweat, thirst, anxiety, weakness, and trembling of limbs, transient heat and paleness and rattling respiration.

Baptisia Tinctoria

Stupor; falls asleep while being spoken to or answering; heavy sleep till aroused; awakes only to again, fall asleep in the midst of his answer, which he vainly endeavors to finish. Vertigo, and weak feeling of entire system, esp. lower limbs and knees. Great languor; wants to lie down. Tired, bruised, sick feeling in all parts of the body. Weak and tremulous, as if recovering from a severe illness. Great weakness in all four limbs. Numbness prickling and paralytic feeling over the whole body.

COCA

Melancholy. Hypochondriasis. Mental depression with drowsiness. Bashfulness. Prefers solitude and darkness. Muddled feeling in brain. Loss of energy. Great mental excitement. Vertigo and fainting. Headache just over eyebrows; not constant.

P. S: This article is only for doctors having good knowledge about Homeopathy and allopathy, for learning purpose(s).

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Dr. Sayyad Qaisar Ahmed (MD {Ukraine}, DHMS), Abdominal Surgeries, Oncological surgeries, Gastroenterologist, Specialist Homeopathic Medicines.

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