5 types of fatigue

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone..... thanks again to for the internet site where

this info came from.

How many of these fit you?

Jeanie

There are 5 types of fatigue acchording to Dr. Schapiro:

1. We talk about people having normal fatigue. That's the kind of

fatigue that we all get.

2. Some people have what we call the short-circuiting kind of

fatigue, and if you can imagine the nerve firing and firing and

firing, but when it's demyelinated, it sometimes then fires and short

circuits and fires and short circuits, and then it poops out and does

what we call a block. In neurology terminology, we call it a

conduction block. So the person starts out walking pretty well, and

then the leg gets weaker, and then it becomes so one cannot lift the

leg further. And that's what we call short-circuiting fatigue.

3. We also see the kind of fatigue in people who are not very active

sometimes. They get out of shape, and so when they go to do

something, they have low endurance.

4. Then we see the kind of fatigue that comes with the people who are

sometimes depressed. They're not feeling well, they're not eating

well, they're not sleeping well, and they become fatigued.

5. And then we see the interesting fatigue that we call lassitude.

It's and overwhelming tiredness that hits people for no particular

reason. It's a fatigue that comes on in people who are not

particularly overworked. They're not depressed. They're feeling well,

but they could just take a nap. And that is an actual treatment, is

to take a nap. But this overwhelming tiredness appears to be

neurological in its nature, neurochemical in its nature, because

neurochemicals seem to have some effect on that fatigue.

[Guest guest]

Well, I relate to #2 and #5 - Big Time! How about y'all?

Thanks for that info.

Carolyn

> Hi everyone..... thanks again to for the internet site

where

> this info came from.

>

> How many of these fit you?

>

> Jeanie

>

>

> There are 5 types of fatigue acchording to Dr. Schapiro:

>

> 1. We talk about people having normal fatigue. That's the kind of

> fatigue that we all get.

>

> 2. Some people have what we call the short-circuiting kind of

> fatigue, and if you can imagine the nerve firing and firing and

> firing, but when it's demyelinated, it sometimes then fires and

short

> circuits and fires and short circuits, and then it poops out and

does

> what we call a block. In neurology terminology, we call it a

> conduction block. So the person starts out walking pretty well, and

> then the leg gets weaker, and then it becomes so one cannot lift

the

> leg further. And that's what we call short-circuiting fatigue.

>

> 3. We also see the kind of fatigue in people who are not very

active

> sometimes. They get out of shape, and so when they go to do

> something, they have low endurance.

>

> 4. Then we see the kind of fatigue that comes with the people who

are

> sometimes depressed. They're not feeling well, they're not eating

> well, they're not sleeping well, and they become fatigued.

>

> 5. And then we see the interesting fatigue that we call lassitude.

> It's and overwhelming tiredness that hits people for no particular

> reason. It's a fatigue that comes on in people who are not

> particularly overworked. They're not depressed. They're feeling

well,

> but they could just take a nap. And that is an actual treatment, is

> to take a nap. But this overwhelming tiredness appears to be

> neurological in its nature, neurochemical in its nature, because

> neurochemicals seem to have some effect on that fatigue.