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?
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.
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.