2 hours this time. Jeez the fatigue - it's enough to drive you round then bend isn't it? In some respects it's the worst aspect of the disease because, no matter how well you get the other symptoms under control, the fatigue is there waiting to get you! Aaaargh!

I'm with you here, everyday I sleep between and hour to two hours purely because of fatigue, it's horrid. Luckily my little girl still has a lunchtime sleep. Not sure how I'll cope when she grows out of them!

Natalie 😊 xx

Natalie I was worried about that when my son dropped his nap (he's now 4). I have got round it by cutting up an apple and putting in a plastic bowl and we take it upstairs. He sits in bed next to me eating his apple watching CBeebies while I have a sleep. I can usually get an hour like this and on a few occasions I have had 2. He gets really upset now if we can't do that together.
Becky

Hello totally agree fatigue is huge, I have a rest/sleep everyday in the afternoons for approximately am .hour
I think it is the worse part. Like trudging through mud

Today my 'mud trudging' has lasted all day. Woke at 9:50, was back in bed by 10:20 for a 'short' doze. Up at 11:30. Zombie like around the house, lay down for a dose at 2PM and have only just got up again. And I could cheerfully lay my head down again.

Bit of pain peak just now too so popping codeine and paracetamol.

I am about to find out. I have been yawning all evening but there's just a chance that when my head hits the pillow I shall wake up

that's good,

i've never been a good sleeper so i'm used to it .. but i do have better night's than others.

Suzanne

I'm with you all on the fatigue! I sleep like i'm in a coma in the mornings and just can't get up early however hard i try. If i do manage it on the odd occasion i end up going back to bed. It's a real nuisance and seems to be a big issue with all us RA's.

I think we just have to accept it as we do with all the other issues with the illness, otherwise it leads to more frustration and depression.

Shirley

I needed a 2 hour nap this morning and another 2 hour one this afternoon. And I had to force myself out of bed or this afternoon's would have still been going on!

Hi Anne

On a bad day my 85 year old father-in-law could outrun me.

And, actually, the scooter enquiries were on his behalf as he is coming to live with us back end of Feb as he's had a couple of health scares that mean he shouldn't be living alone. I must say that I am tempted though. We borrowed one at a National Trust Property recently when F-I-L was visiting and, for a while when he wanted to walk I drove it. Very nice. I wonder if you can get tandem ones? -