Muscle Fatigue in Kidney Disease: Causes and Management

“Recently, I am always suffering from muscle fatigue, a extreme muscle tiredness or shakiness. I haven’t do any tests, but the other thing I can tell you is that I was diagnosed with kidney disease three years ago. Can you tell me the cause and management of muscle fatigue in kidney disease patients, doctor?”.

Yesterday, one patients consulted online and asked me this question. I know quite a number of patients are also faced by this problem. Therefore, today we are here to give you a satisfying answer.

What is the cause of muscle fatigue in kidney disease?

Muscle fatigue is a feeling of tiredness, exhaustion or lack of energy in legs or arms that makes you don’t want to do anything. If you have kidney disease, muscle fatigue is more likely to occur on you. The reason is that the healthy kidney is responsible to filter blood, remove wastes and toxins from the body, and make some hormones to produce enough red blood cells so as to transport a lot of oxygens to the other organs. If the kidney is damaged, it can’t play its job normally and then lack of oxygen or too many wastes in the body may cause muscle fatigue easily. If you are suffering from this maddening tiredness, you must urgently want to know the management of muscle fatigue in kidney disease.

What is the management of muscle fatigue in kidney disease?

Since this type of fatigue is due to the disability of kidney function, the best treatment is to improve your kidney function as much as possible. Because no specific treatment in western medicine can help achieve this goal, more and more kidney experts turn their focus to the herbal medicines. After many years’ research, some herbal medicines from the nature plants, leaf, root, etc, have proven to help repair damaged but not necrotic kidney cells effectively. With effective treatment, patients’ kidney function can be improved gradually. However, different patients have a great difference in the need of medicines, so the doctor has to prescribe correct medicines for you to manage your muscle fatigue according to your specific condition.