- Fainting (vasovagal syncope)
Before fainting, you might feel lightheaded, warm, nausea, a cold sweat, or have tunnel vision.
- Sleep apnea
People with sleep apnea stop and restart breathing multiple times while sleeping.
- Medication reaction or side-effect
Medication side effects include nausea, vomiting, stomach upset, weakness, dizziness, seizures, and more.
- Sleep deprivation
Sleep deprivation occurs when the lack of restful sleep is severe enough to compromise basic body functions.
- Caffeine withdrawal
If you suddenly stop drinking caffeine, you get withdrawal symptoms, such as headache, fatigue, and bad mood.
- Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)
Low blood sugar, or low glucose levels, causes shakiness, anxiety, clammy skin, irritability, hunger, and more.
- Generalized anxiety disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder is a condition in which a person has nearly constant anxiety.
- Narcolepsy
Narcolepsy is a brain disorder that makes people abnormally sleepy at times during the day.
- Hyperventilation
Hyperventilation is rapid or shallow breathing usually caused by stress or anxiety.
- Drug overdose
A drug overdose can be fatal and causes sleepiness, confusion, coma, vomiting, and other symptoms.
- Depression (Adult)
Depression is a painful sadness that interferes with daily life and includes hopelessness, anxiety, and more.
- Heart rhythm disorder
Some heart rhythm disorders can cause a fluttering in the chest, shortness of breath, chest pain or dizziness.
- Panic attack
When someone has a panic attack, that person feels a sudden, intense fear that can't be controlled.
- Dehydration (Children)
Dehydration, or not getting enough fluid, causes dry and sticky mouth, tearless crying, and more in children.
- Excessive caffeine use
Excessive caffeine use can cause irritability, difficulty sleeping, anger, depression, and fatigue.
- Tetralogy of Fallot
Tetralogy of Fallot is a combination of heart defects causing bluish skin, trouble breathing, and more.
- Atrial flutter
Atrial flutter is an abnormality of the heart's rhythm that causes rapid and sometimes irregular heartbeats.
- Heat exhaustion
Heat exhaustion causes intense thirst, heavy sweating, pale, cool, and moist skin, muscle cramps, and more.
- Low blood pressure (hypotension)
Low blood pressure, or hypotension, can make you feel lightheaded and dizzy
- Lyme disease
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection spread through tick bites; symptoms include rash, fever chills, and more.
- Pulmonary embolism
A pulmonary embolism, a blood clot lodged in the lung, causes shortness of breath, chest pain, and more.
- Pulmonary hypertension
Pulmonary hypertension can cause shortness of breath, a fast heart rate, or lightheadedness.
- Cocaine abuse
Cocaine abuse occurs when a person continues using it despite the social and health problems caused by it.
- Hyperthyroidism
Hyperparathyroidism can cause fatigue and weakness, increased thirst, impaired thinking, and bone fractures.
- Atrial fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation is a heart condition that causes heart palpitations, confusion, dizziness and more.
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) makes it hard to concentrate and focus.
- Insulin reaction (hypoglycemia)
An insulin reaction is the result of low blood sugar and causes anxiety, hunger, shaking, dizziness, and more.
- Benzodiazepine abuse
Benzodiazepines are prescription medications that cause drowsiness, dizziness, blurred vision, and more.
- Alcohol intoxication
Alcohol intoxication, or drunkenness, is marked by impaired judgment, slurred speech, blurred vision and more.
- Aspirin poisoning
Aspirin poisoning is a medical emergency and can cause nausea, vomiting, drowsiness and more.
- Barbiturate abuse
Barbiturates are a type of prescription sedative in which even a slight overdose can cause coma or death.
- Chronic kidney disease
Chronic kidney disease is a condition of the kidneys that can cause high blood pressure, fatigue, and weakness.
- Dehydration (Adult)
Dehydration, or not getting enough fluid, causes low blood pressure, weakness, dizziness, fatigue, and nausea.
- Aortic stenosis
Aortic stenosis is a condition of the heart causing shortness of breath, dizziness, or chest pain.
- Insomnia
Insomnia symptoms include trouble staying asleep at night, feeling tired during the day, moodiness, and more.
- Restless legs syndrome
Restless leg syndrome causes intense discomfort in your legs and an overpowering urge to move them.
- Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a serious, chronic mental illness that causes delusional or hallucinogenic thoughts.
- Supraventricular tachycardia
Supraventricular tachycardia is fast heart rhythm starting in one of the upper chambers of the heart.
- Thyroid storm
A thyroid storm, dangerously high levels of thyroid hormone, causes fever, racing heartbeat, sweating, and more
- Ventricular septal defect
A ventricular septal defect is a hole in the heart that some babies are born with
- Acute kidney failure
Acute kidney failure is sudden and can cause swelling, frequent dark urination, fatigue, nausea and more.
- Anemia
Anemia, a lack of red blood cells, can cause fatigue, pale skin, weakness, dizziness, headache and more.
- Aortic regurgitation
Aortic regurgitation, when the aortic valve doesn't close completely, can cause severe heart symptoms.
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
Symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis include dry mouth, excessive thirst and urination, and more.
- Cocaine withdrawal
Cocaine withdrawal may cause feelings ranging from anxiety, irritability and sleepiness to suicidal thoughts.
- Amphetamine withdrawal
The symptoms of amphetamine withdrawal include depression, fatigue, increased appetite, and sleep problems.
- Epilepsy (temporal lobe)
Epilepsy is a condition marked by seizures.
- Epilepsy (simple partial seizures)
During simple partial epileptic seizures, people remain fully conscious, able to respond to external stimuli.
- Epilepsy (complex partial seizures)
During complex partial seizures, people lose consciousness briefly.
- Social anxiety disorder
Social anxiety disorder causes intense stress and anxiety during everyday social situations.
- Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is the fear of open places, or any situation where escape would be difficult.
- Narcotic abuse
Narcotic abuse can cause fatigue, shallow breathing, anxiety, euphoria, vomiting, confusion, and constipation.
- Child abuse
The signs and symptoms of child abuse include bruises, burns, bleeding, fearful behavior, bedwetting and more.
- Dementia in head injury
Dementia resulting from a head injury may cause memory problems, difficulty speaking, and personality changes.
- Dementia with Lewy bodies
Dementia with Lewy bodies is a brain disorder that causes problems managing memory and movement.
- Brain aneurysm
A brain aneurysm is a weak spot in a blood vessel in the brain that balloons and fills with blood.
- Hypopituitarism
Hypopituitarism is a rare disorder of the pituitary glands, which can cause many different symptoms.
- Mad cow disease
Mad cow disease is spread to humans by eating infected cows causing depression, anxiety, psychosis, and more.
- Cyanide poisoning
The symptoms of cyanide poisoning include headache, weakness, confusion, nausea, and seizures.
