Fatigue

Through most of my time of having MS I have never really suffered from fatigue very much. This year though it seems to have developed to be a lot more than it used to be.

It varies from day to day. Some days I hardly notice it, other days I just feel tired from the moment I get out of bed!

When it’s not too bad I can either just ignore it or just have a small 10 minute snooze and I’m back to being ok. On the days it’s worse I try not to have a snooze just in case I end up snoozing for too long and feeling even worse!

When it is quite bad I just feel totally drained and usually that makes me feel particularly achy as well. It’s very hard to try to motivate myself to do anything and I usually just try to take it easy and rest. I avoid taking any painkillers as much as possible, needs to be quite a bit of pain before I do take any.

It’s one of the symptoms that’s not visible at all, so I feel that people must think I’m just being lazy. I do sometimes push myself more than I should when I’m not feeling great, just so it doesn’t look like I’m being lazy!

That’s just one of my symptoms that I have to deal with, I just thought I would try to explain it a little bit.

Rob