Glossary On Symptoms

Excessive weight gain and extra fatty tissue are obviously the major symptoms of obesity. However, the weight gain causes a lot more symptoms to be manifest in the patient gradually over a period of time. As the disease advances, these become more and more prominent:

• Running out of breath - even with minor exertion sometimes
• Lethargy, tiredness
• Difficulty in sleeping
• Excessive perspiration
• Pain in weight bearing joints like knees, hips and also in the back
• Snoring
• Sleep apnea
• Rashes in the folds of skin such as in the groins, between thighs, axillae, below breasts, etc.
• Depression
• Low self esteem
• Always feeling hot
• Daytime sleepiness

Many other diseases are also associated with obesity and the patient may manifest any of the symptoms of these - heart disease, hypertension, stroke, cancer, gallbladder disease, type 2 diabetes, etc.