Its terrible when it hits both the body and the mind like that, isn't it? The body seems to become a wet dish rag and the mind goes off into la-la land.
Stupid disease.

With love, Erika

I thought I posted again, but I guess I dreamed it!

I'm allergic to amantadine, and both it and Provigil gave me palpitations, the jitters, and nightmares. Neither one really did anything for the body and brain fatigue.

Although I was wishing a whole bunch of you would say, "Why, yes, I went through a spell of needing a nap every day, but it went away!" there are worse things than being sleepy. At least I don't have to try to explain it to people, like other symptoms.

Guess I'll just have to consider it part of my daily routine and move on. I do not like change. (gnashing teeth)

I go to a lot of trouble to make sure I get my daily nap. I'll persuade appointment schedulers to give me times that will allow me to be home and napping at naptime. I don't tell them I need to take a nap because I don't want to hear about how I could surely rearrange my naptime.

That doesn't work for me. I can't usually shift the nap to morning or even noon because I'm not tired enough. But after lunch, often a late lunch, I'm ready to drop, and I fall asleep very easily.

I sleep for anywhere from half an hour to an hour and a half, and still sleep 8 hours at night.

When I weighed a lot more, I needed two naps a day but as the weight dropped off, I was able to pare it down to one.

This need for naps has been part of my life ever since MS came along. Sorry I can't be more encouraging, B2Y.