Ask A GP: When Should I Worry About Fatigue?

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68fb619a18000018e5fe422d.jpg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Exhausted man" data-caption="Exhausted man" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="Doğukan Şahin via Unsplash" />Exhausted man</div><script>!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement('iframe');t.display='none',t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement('script');c.src='//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js',c.setAttribute('async','1'),c.setAttribute('type','text/javascript'),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);</script><script id="68fb60cee4b004dff450cbe7">(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=8b034f64-513c-4987-b16f-42d6008f7feb';cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"8b034f64-513c-4987-b16f-42d6008f7feb","mediaId":"54629700-d187-45f5-a04d-5501459f2880"}).render("68fb60cee4b004dff450cbe7");});</script><div class="content-list-component text"><p>According to YouGov, <a href="https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/40047-one-eight-britons-feel-tired-all-time" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a third of UK adults say </a>they feel tired about half of the time.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/19/exhausting-search-for-solutions-to-uk-rise-in-tiredness" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Some research suggests</a> 5-7% of people who see their GP complain of fatigue, and recent surveys say the average British adult only gets <a href="https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/about-us/news/restless-britain-new-survey-reveals-average-uk-adult-has-only-three-d