Everyone experiences fatigue sometimes. Being overworked, going to bed late at night and having multiple stressors can lead to tiredness and sometimes sleepiness. However, in people with diabetes, this feeling of tiredness can sometimes be chronic and more intense in nature. It is not only the feeling of weariness that intensifies. Sometimes, it also compromises your energy and your mental capacity limiting your ability to think straight and make important decisions.

Do you have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes? Do you ever wonder why you feel tired so often, even when you sleep through the night? Do you sometimes feel sleepy for large portions of the day? Do you want to get over the feeling of fatigue despite having diabetes? Many people feel run down and don't realize their chronic exhaustion is related to blood sugar problems... often they cover their symptoms of fatigue with a cappuccino or a cafe latte.

To be able to treat fatigue in diabetes, your doctor should first know what is really causing it. Here is a list of the most common causes of tiredness in diabetics:

1. Insulin resistance: Insulin resistance is one of the major causes of type 2 diabetes. The individual cell becomes less responsive to the action of insulin, the special hormone that facilitates the transport of energy in the form of sugar into your cells, resulting in decreased levels of usable energy within those cells leading to fatigue. Your cells can't make energy, so you feel tired all the time. Yes, there is truly a high level of sugar within the bloodstream. But without the proper facilitation of sugar across the cell membranes, this form of energy will remained unused resulting in a

* feeling of tiredness

* feeling of weariness, and

* mental fatigue

2. Hypoglycemia: Diabetics who are taking their medications or their regular insulin injection, may experience fatigue due to hypoglycemia or a really low blood sugar level.

What causes hypoglycemia:

* an overly decreased caloric intake

* an excessive increase in physical activity, and

* even an intake of alcoholic beverages

... are often the causes of hypoglycemia in diabetics. If you feel tired, hungry, shaky, nervous or unusually sleepy, chances are, your blood sugar may be dangerously low. The best thing for you to do is to check your blood sugar level and then correct this if your blood sugar is truly low.

3. Hypokalemia. Type 1 diabetics who are experiencing diabetic ketoacidosis, a potentially lethal complication of diabetes, are prone to develop hypokalemia or a severe decrease in their body's potassium level, according to a study published in the August 1998 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Hypokalemia leads to tiredness, weakness and fatigue. However, with the correction of ongoing diabetic ketoacidosis coupled with replacement of potassium stores, symptoms of hypokalemia usually resolve.

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