I have chronic fatigue, and despite taking sleeping tablets at night I still baby get 2 hrs sleep and often no sleep at all, due to pain from fibromyalgia and Co
chronic arthritis in practicaly every joint. I fall asleep during the day, and always feel like I've a hangover and wading through thick mud. I have many days when I don't get dressed as I'm too tired to go out and the depression that feeling so so cut off from the rest of the world, especially those people who say things like ( well you look ok, and pull yourself together,) makes me feel even more useless. I apologise for sounding self pitying today, and I know that there are many people suffering dreadful illnesses much worse than I have . Maybe it's because I went to bed at 10pm last night and was extremely tired, yet I got roughly an hrs sleep and have been sitting Im rhe living room since 2am with a hot water bottle for my back pain and two heat pads on my knees, trying to ease the arthritis and spondylitis pain. I have been burning some lavender essential oil which sometimes helps with relaxation. I totally sympathise and send love and hugs to everyone suffering from any chronic health condition and especially to this wonderful fibromyalgia support group that let's me offload my thoughts, without annoying family ect that are probably fed up of my constant self pitying complaints lol. Love and hugs to all of you lovely people. X

I bounce around between not getting enough sleep to sleeping for days. Just this week I went to bed Sunday and did not wake until Tuesday

Hi, and welcome to the team. Chronic fatigue is a major problem for me. How do I not sleep 18 hours a day, when that's all I want to do? I think it's guilt, and/or anxiety.

I take Adderall during the day and my medications side effects help me sleep at night.

We're all different not all of us have chronic fatigue syndrome as part of our fibro