@Alexa 

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Alexa

Tired of fatigue

Has anyone successfully learned how to take breaks before you think you need them? 😅 The past few weeks, I find myself able to work and do activities for 3-5 hours and then by 2 PM, I am usually so fatigued – clouded with brain fog and physically drained of energy that I cannot do anything but lay down (usually for 2-3 hours). And unfortunately, I am very stubborn and have a hard time taking naps. It's making me feel sad and incapable. I am in the process of starting a company and will do some experimental hemp farming (for grain – the nutritious anti-inflammatory seeds, not for the buds (cannabinoids) – but this fatigue is slowing me down. Any tips? How do you incorporate resting into your day?
@WinchesterMark

Hi @Alexa In short RE "Has anyone successfully learned how to take breaks before you think you need them" erm no but I would love to know if anyone actually has. Personally I find it really difficult (read impossible really) to try and plan ahead for just how much I can do or can go before the fatigue kicks in and like you when I'm working starting at 9 am means by after lunch I need to lie down for a nap (I bought a sofa bed for my home office for exactly that reason). As ever the optimist, I like to 'think' stopping before you have too is just one of those things you eventually learn over time with MS.

@Elisabeth_Turner

It is so difficult, and so up and down all the time. You get a burst of energy and feel all motivated and within a matter if minutes you can't hold a conversation and just want to sleep!. I'm just trying to roll with it, if i need a 2 hour sleep so be it, but it is to become demoralised and feel you can't achieve anything :(. I try and do 20 minutes gentle pilates every day, i think that helps. And i always have lots of water to drink.

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