Fatigue

Fatigue is a common symptom and sign related to many conditions. First, one must remove barriers from healing and make sure that it is not the lifestyle, diet, stress or medicine prescription that causes it.

 

Medications That Cause Fatigue
Allergy medications (antihistamines), such as brompheniramine (Bromfed, Dimetapp), diphenhydramine, hydroxyzine (Vistaril, Atarax), and meclizine (Antivert). Some of these antihistamines are in sleeping pills, too.
Antidepressants. One type of antidepressant called tricyclics can make you feel tired and sleepy. Some are more likely to do that than others, like amitriptyline (Elavil, Vanatrip), doxepin (Silenor, Sinequan), imipramine (Tofranil, Tofranil PM), and trimipramine (Surmontil).
Anxiety medications. Benzodiazepines like alprazolam (Xanax), clonazepam (Klonopin), diazepam (Valium), and lorazepam (Ativan) can make you feel drowsy or weak for a few hours to several days.
Blood pressure medications. Beta-blockers, like atenolol (Tenormin), metoprolol tartrate (Lopressor), metoprolol succinate (Toprol XL), and propranolol hydrochloride (Inderal), to name a few. They work by slowing down your heart, which can make you tired.Cancer treatment. Different types of cancer treatment can make you very tired by changing protein and hormones levels in your body. As they kill cancer cells, they also damage or destroy some normal cells. Then your body has to spend extra energy to fix or clean up the cells.

Gut medications. Drugs that control nausea, keep you from throwing up, or treat diarrhea can make you sleepy.

Muscle relaxants. Most muscle relaxants don’t work on your muscles directly. Instead, they work on the nerves in your brain and spine to make the muscles relax. Their effects on your nervous system can make you tired. Some common muscle relaxants are carisoprodol (Soma) and cyclobenzaprine (Flexeril).

Opioid pain medications. Opioids act like the chemicals your body makes to control pain, called endorphins. Common ones are fentanyl (Actiq, Duragesic, Fentora), oxycodone and aspirin (Percodan), oxycodone and acetaminophen (Percocet, Roxicet), morphine, oxymorphone (Opana, Opana ER), oxycodone (OxyContin, OxyIR),and hydrocodone and acetaminophen (Lorcet, Lortab, Vicodin).

Seizure or epilepsy medications. Also called anticonvulsants, these medications can work on your brain cells or the chemicals they use to send messages. Some of these drugs are the same ones that treat anxiety, like benzodiazepines. Other common seizure medications are carbamazepine (Tegretol/Tegretol XR/Carbatrol), phenobarbital, phenytoin (Dilantin, Phenytek), topiramate (Topamax), and valproic acid (Depakene, Depakote).