NO, NO, NO This is putting all the responsibility for combatting fatigue on the patient. Dump that fucking monkey directly on your doctors' back. They need to actually do some work for once. Quote this Harvard Business Review article to them and never let a stroke recovery problem be allowed to stay on your back overnight.
Who's Got the Monkey?
3 Strategies for Combating Post-stroke Fatigue
1. Keep a fatigue diary.
2. Plan Your Activities.
3.Adjust Your Diet.
LOL to the article and I agree with you Dean. Keeping a diary does no good because the fatigue is caused by moving and breathing after a stroke. Fatigue can also be caused by emotional distress, who isn't emotionally distressed after a stroke.
ReplyDeletePlanning your activities- a no brainer when you have X amount of energy before fatigue kicks in. Some mornings I awaken fatigued.
I couldn't eat enough high energy foods to keep me awake and not be almost 200 lbs..
The first months post-stroke I would be exhausted just getting dressed and making it downstairs to breakfast. Then a tiny bit of reading and a nap.
DeleteIt's been about 8 years since my stroke, a vertebral artery dissection. By far the worst lingering effect has been the post-stroke fatigue. Everything else is minor, but the fatigue is something I'm always aware of. I've had to adjust my life around it. Ironically, the time when I'm least aware of it is while exercising. I'm most aware of it after about two hours of moderately intense mental work I don't try to get extra steep since there is little or no relationship between the amount of sleep I get (beyond the usual 8 hours) and the fatigue. Google lets me know about studies, but they consider 2 years to be "long term" and they often seem to miss the whole point, looking for a relationship to depression or anxiety and recommending exercise. I recommend exercise too, but it's only a palliative, at least for me. I'd love an actual treatment!
ReplyDeleteCraig Whalley,
cswhalley@yahoo.com