My goodness, how tired can one person be???
I pretty much slept all day this past Sunday, work yesterday wasn't bad (very busy, so day passed quickly), crashed HARD last night and just can't seem to get going this morning.
Any suggestions?
Pooped,
Joe
Sounds oh so familiar. Are you having a flare right now or under extra stess? That's what usually causes my fatigue to be worse than usual.
Extreme fatigue is what recently forced me to stop working. Some things that seemed to help me were to:
Pace yourself through the day, when you start to get tired, stop and rest (I know it's hard when your working), even if you go out side for 5 minutes and sit a couple of times a day. If your home plan on several rest/nap periods to help you function until bed time.
I drank coffee to help me stay awake until I got home to crash.
I usually was in bed by 7:30 on work days & the weekends were pretty much spent rotating between naps in bed or on the sofa to recoperate so I could survive the next week @ work.
I wish I knew a secret to help overcome the fatigue.
Why do we get so fatigued? Esp. while in pain? I don't understand it.. Is it because our immune systems are attaching our own bodies? I don't seem to have much appetite when I am tired? I just have to force myself to eat... I could care less about eating though somedays. I am sooo sick of feeling tired! I tried exercising every other day but it doesn't seem to help this week and I have been in much pain.
Donna
I hadn't had fatigue in well over a month, and then bam, it hit me hard weekend before last. I still am trying to figure out what caused it, but my head was in a fog. It was terrible.
The tiredness drives me crazy. I would think that you should stop & rest or sleep when your body is telling you that you need to stop. When I get like that, I stop and rest.
I was diagnosed with RA in March & still can't understand how I feel.
Take care, Trisha
I could sleep hanging on a nail!!!
Fatigue SUCKS
I agree. Before, I would go to bed at midnight or 1 am and be ready for work the next day. I was a night owl. Now, I get home from work at around 4:30 pm, and it takes everything in me to drive home safely and get through dinner. Then, I go to sleep until I have to get up to go to work. I have never slept during the day before. Even as a kid. I never took naps. My mother said I was getting lazy the other day and it upset me so much. I don't want to sleep,but I just can't keep my eyes open after 6 pm anymore. Tonight is different. I can't sleep. I have been dreaming of my bed all day today when I was at work, and now I can't sleep. I think it is the weather. It has been raining for several days straight over here.When I get like that I make lists in my mind of all the things that I am going to do when I feel just a bit better. I don't know if this is healthy or not, but I do actually get my lists done. Now, it takes me far longer than it would somebody else. But I figure I used to be the hare (as in running around hare-brained) and now I am the tortoise. It may take me longer, I might be moving slower, but damn it, I am going to beat that old hare if I have to take him by his scrawny neck.... oh, no violence.
Yeah, fatigue a constant companion. I rest up on the weekend just to go to work. There's no energy past this. I sneak in 15 minutes here and there for something I love to do. But it's not how I thought I'd be spending my life now. Fatigue cheats you out of everything.
Hey Deena, your funny! LOL
I liked that one.
Trisha Thanks for all your post guys. I love it and hate it at the same time when a nerve is struck that reminds all of us of our common bonds. Like fatigue. I guess everyone has it and it truly sucks! We need a "sucks" emiticon! Couldn't imagine what it what look like
Take care everyone and thanks for the replies! Joe
Me too. so, so tired. Been really bad for the last
month or so. Can hardly do anything. I've almost
fallen asleep at work several times lately. That
wouldn't go over good!!
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