Re: Re: RESEARCH - New insights into the experience of fatigue among patients with RA: a qualitative study

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OKD,

Be sure to mention your fatigue to your rheumatologist at your next

appointment.

There are so many possible reasons for fatigue in RA, including:

disease activity, pain, associated fibromyalgia, poor sleep quality

(even if you get enough hours), anemia, depression, medications,

family and/or work problems, and sleep apnea.

I hope you can find some way to improve your fatigue.

Not an MD

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:42 PM, OKD <Cofade_2000@...> wrote:

> Thanks for posting this :

>

> This is the one thing I cant seem to beat, no matter what.  I ramped up my

diet, drinking water like mad, greens, juicing, walking like crazy, taking my

enbrel, mtx, and pain meds, but I cant seem to beat the FAtigue.  i FIND MYSELF

NODDING AT WORK

> and its not the pain patches, those are just enuf to keep the pain at bay,

they have never, not once, gotten me high or buzzed.

>

>

> I get plenty of sleep (when I can) and I take naps, and still the fatigue is

overwhelming sometimes.

>

> I wonder why?

>

> OKD