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kayleighhill
How would you describe your MS fatigue?
How has it impacted your life?
cmhj Member
Fatigue has changed everything in my life. Many days I feel like I accomplish absolutely nothing because my body just can't move.
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wandaholt Member
I wish there was a different word for MS fatigue. It is a sickness well beyond tiredness or even malaise or flu like feeling. For me it is increasing as time goes on. I have had MS 15 yrs. and could fight this “fatigue”with regular exercise, diet, sleep, meds etc. But as I weaken it now consumes me.
Carotha Member
Yes! Fatigue doesn't even begin to describe this. A few weeks ago, my husband was feeling overwhelmed and uncharacteristically exploded at me, screaming, "I'm sick of this! Sick of all of this!" When I was able to get him to talk to me, he said that he found "four foot long cobwebs" in the dining room. Well, one, I don't see well, and two, when I walk through a room, I'm busy watching my feet so that I don't fall. It was a rough argument.
It wasn't until I got MRI results that showed brain lesions that he's finally starting to understand that I'm not being lazy, that I'm struggling and doing the best I can, but the hardest part of this is that no one who supposedly loves me seems to understand. My daughter called me a hypochondriac. I wish I could trade bodies for just fifteen minutes, so that they could feel what I'm feeling; it's like an 80 mile an hour wind combined with a 5 point earthquake (thanks to tremor)... and add on the flu. I would say I'm tired, but that's just not accurate.
I used to be an athlete, and I used to have a career. Now, I'm coping with legs and arms that don't seem to listen to what I want them to do. Therapy has helped a lot, even with the chronic pain.
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CommunityMember3564 Member
Extremely
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Mumbee08 Member
I feel tired all the time. I only work 3 days a week now and my days off I do nothing cause I'm sore and tired from work. I do a little housework, might take a nap in the afternoon and cook tea and that's me day done. I don't sleep well which doesn't help....
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