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(two)Present limitations (of self-management) Participants have been encouraged in the concentrate group to go over what interventions or remedies they had tried, or wanted to try with Ors could bind regard to self-managing their fatigue. Responses ranged from; having a good attitude "just retain on going" and "trying to determine the glass half complete not half empty", self-medication "I will take a lot more co-codamol",Davies et al. BMC Musculoskeletal Issues 2013, 14:163 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2474/14/Page four ofkeeping active "every day I stroll for any very good hour together with the dogs, I swim and I retain active", and being a member of a gym. Hydrotherapy was a well-liked activity, but discovering a warm pool and also the price involved have been viewed as problematic "it will be lovely to swim in a warm pool but the rates these locations are charging." One participant stated they felt they "had to physical exercise that was the leveller.....if I don't do it [exercise] I am in actual problems." Other participants reported sleeping for brief periods of time "a 10 minute energy nap and I am fine again". Some participants implied they attempted not to depend on medication for managing their AS because of the quite a few sideeffects skilled. The following quote illustrates this predicament: "I was taking indomethacin for the discomfort nevertheless it triggered the bowel to flare up and I was hospitalised with that....so I try and handle without having drugs if I can...but certainly you must if the pain is quite poor." As part of your focus group participants had been shown a 3 minute video clip on amitriptyline medication [24] (which can be prescribed ahead of bedtime for fatigue and discomfort in chronic musculoskeletal conditions), which includes how it operates, dosage and its advantages for managing chronic nerve discomfort.Hen I wasn't sure if it was the medication...other members of my loved ones also take higher doses of co-codamol and it sends them to sleep..." Also, fatigue is unpredictable "you can get this tiredness for no purpose. It just comes on you..." whereas one more participant implied "I in no way identified that I was tired commonly, only after a flare up." Function commitments had been on a single hand viewed as a motivator for life, one particular participant mentioned "it [job] keeps me going", but alternatively an additional participant who completed operate as a result of fatigue in AS stated "I have completed perform now so I am managing much much better, but when I was working I found it extremely really hard, you could possibly just cry or you felt physically sick for the reason that you felt so tired." In agreement a single participant stated "In the finish I just gave up operate...it made it simpler physically not having to go in, but I still uncover I'm possessing periods of mood swings and depression...the longer it [sleep problems] goes on then the a lot more mood swings kick in." Another participant found it "hard to concentrate in function because you felt so tired." There was a general consensus over the uncertainty of no matter whether the symptoms of AS (which include pain, impaired sleep) caused fatigue or if fatigue was a symptom of AS.