It's not just being tired, it's that crushing fatigue that stops you from functioning, and makes you too exhausted to even roll over in bed.

It isn't necessarily the need to sleep, but the need to stop, regroup, and revive. It's when you brain says 'enough' and the messages just don't get through, it all seems too hard, too complicated, real life is too far away, nothing makes sense, tears are close and reallity is something you only wish for. When it truly hits me, I feel like I am in a hole and there is no way out.

Of course, I do get out of it, and I get back on top of this stupid disease. There is a difference between being tired and MS fatigue. It's kinda like someone letting the air out of your tires, and clubbing you with a baseball bat all at once.

Sure, I get tired like everyone else, but when my MS is active, fatigue is a whole different monster.

Lyn