Talking to your provider about feeling tired

1. Talking with your provider about fatigue:
• Make sure your providers ask you about fatigue
• Make sure you tell your providers about your fatigue
• Look at how long it lasts, what makes it better or worse, how bad it is
• Note if tiredness bothers your thinking, mood, and ability to perform daily activities
2. Be sure to call your provider if you:
• Get dizzy
• Loose your balance when walking
• Loose your balance when getting out of bed or out of a chair
• Fall or hurt yourself
• Have trouble waking up
• Have problems catching your breath
• Have a sudden increase in fatigue (you need to rest all the time)
• Have a really rapid heartbeat
• Can't go to sleep or don't stay asleep or can't go back to sleep once you wake up during the night
• Are very feeling anxious, nervous, constantly thinking about things
• Can't get out of bed for more than 24 hours

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