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