126 Quotes About Fatigue

In 2018 I became aware through dietary changes that I was Gluten, Fructose and Lactose intolerant and was experiencing several hours of chronic fatigue after eating certain foods, which is consistent with Reactive or Functional Hypoglycemia.

They sowed the duller vegetables first, and a pleasant feeling of righteous fatigue stole over them as they addressed themselves to the peas.

Now, at last, medicine has decided to recognize our problem. This is a tremendous beginning, but by defining Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to the public with such a benign name, a name that gets confused with simple (often stress-related) fatigue, you have placed yet another burden on us.

The crucial differentiation between ME and other forms of postviral fatigue syndrome lies in the striking variability of the symptoms not only in the course of a day but often within the hour. This variability of the intensity of the symptoms is not found in post viral fatigue states.

Fatigue is a state of mind. If you are very tired and then, suddenly, one minute later you find out you won a BIG lottery, your tiredness would vanish immediately. Why? Because your thoughts are excited about the future and its many possibilities. What changed from one minute ago? You don't even actually possess the money at that point and yet you are full of energy and likely won't sleep for many hours.

people with ME/CFS do not have “fatigue as their main symptom”; they have post-extertional fatigability accompanied by malaise as their main symptom (their voluntary muscles do not work properly and are exquisitely painful after exercise)

the disabling fatigue experienced by individuals with ME/CFS differs from that associated with other illnesses or everyday activity

individuals with ME/CFS experience different types of fatigue than what are reported in the general populations

The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.