One of the well-recognized symptoms of multiple sclerosis is fatigue. MS fatigue can make everyday life tremendously difficult for MS patients. Not only do they suffer physical fatigue and exhaustion, but they also experience difficulty concentrating and may experience symptoms like mood swings and depression. It should not come as a surprise that MS fatigue makes it difficult for many people to remain gainfully employed.
MS fatigue has certain features that distinguish it from the fatigue experienced by generally healthy people. For one, it has absolutely nothing to do with the number of hours of sleep an MS patient gets. MS patients with this form of fatigue could get 8 hours or more of sleep a night and still feel fatigued when they get up in the morning. They typically feel much more fatigued than a person suffering from regular fatigue would. Additionally, their fatigue gets worse with the passage …