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What Causes Excessive Fatigue In A Diabetic Person?

Sir or mam, I am extremely tired, I get about 6 hours sleep at night but while her working I could just fall asleep. My blood sugars are okay, I have Diabetes type 2 well controlled, borderline hypertension and sleep apnea. Can you tell me whats wrong ?
posted on Fri, 2 Feb 2018
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if you have sleep apnea you probably should be using a CPAP or BiPap machine at night. basically sleep apnea causes him to stop breathing at night resulting in interrupted sleep. thus, although you have been in bed for 6 hours you probably didn’t get uninterrupted sleep. the cpap or biosphere machine helps in that it decreases those episodes and help you sleep longer and better. I know this is the problem because of the fact that you fall asleep at work. this is one of the questions we ask to diagnose sleep apnea. good luck
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What Causes Excessive Fatigue In A Diabetic Person?

if you have sleep apnea you probably should be using a CPAP or BiPap machine at night. basically sleep apnea causes him to stop breathing at night resulting in interrupted sleep. thus, although you have been in bed for 6 hours you probably didn’t get uninterrupted sleep. the cpap or biosphere machine helps in that it decreases those episodes and help you sleep longer and better. I know this is the problem because of the fact that you fall asleep at work. this is one of the questions we ask to diagnose sleep apnea. good luck