Fatigue & Sleep Blogs

Sleep and AS: do we consider the implications of the quality of sleep on our patients?

by AStretch2001@gmail.com | Sep 9, 2025 | Fatigue & Sleep Blogs

For several years now as part of my routine assessment of all our AS and Axial SpA patients, I have been asking how well people felt that they had slept over the past week. I use a simple verbal VAS scale from zero to 10 with 10 being ‘I have slept wonderfully’ and...

Fatigue in axial SpA – “feeling drunk with tiredness”

by AStretch2001@gmail.com | Sep 9, 2025 | Fatigue & Sleep Blogs

January 2020: If I ask you to describe the overall level of fatigue/tiredness that you have experienced over the past week and to rate it between 0 –10, how would you answer this, and would you be satisfied with your response? We have been asking our patients to...