Normal fatigue is a more pronounced tiredness and is usually due to extra exertion with a lack of sleep, thrown in.

MS Fatigue is due to the disease. You don't have to do anything to have it...it's just a perk for MS.

The cure for normal fatigue/tiredness is a good nights sleep!!

I must have a lot of the run of the mill tiredness/fatigue because I seem to be needing more sleep lately. Maybe it's the heat or maybe I just need to set an alarm clock. Maybe there still is a tiny bit of depression hanging around

That'll do it..

To me, tiredness is a lack of sleep - whereas MS fatigue is when someone lets the air out of my tyres and I can't push myself to do anything. It is almost overwhelming and happens out of the blue - usually in the afternoon.

Lyn

I've quit announcing that I'm tired. I hear the "yeah, I know how you feel. I'm tired, too" response too much.

For me, there is such a huge difference between just being tired and having the dreaded MS fatigue. If I do get the fatigue and someone comments on it or asks about it I tell them I have "MSF" (multiple sclerosis fatigue). It sounds more severe than just being tired (because it is) plus it shuts up the folks who want to play the "I'm more tired than you are" game.

Like others, to me tired is just not getting enough sleep or something. Fatigue is an overwhelming feeling of just being exhausted. There is nothing you can do but lay down and/or sleep. My body just can't go any more and I get a sense of unreality, like everything around me is in slow motion and I just feel blah. Once I nap, I am fine.

I often tell others that it is like coming down with the worst flu you have ever had; where you just need to go to bed. I think that is the only way that others can understand what we feel on a daily basis - only because most people have felt that before.

That's a good comparison. That's exactly what it feels like.