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BMC Musculoskeletal Problems 2013, 14:163 http://www.biomedcentral.com/Ecific enrichment {is not|isn't|just isn't|is just 1471-2474/14/Page four ofkeeping active "every day I walk for a excellent hour with all the dogs, I swim and I preserve active", and becoming a member of a health club. Hydrotherapy was a well-liked activity, but finding a warm pool along with the price involved had been viewed as problematic "it will be lovely to swim inside a warm pool however the rates these locations are charging." A single participant stated they felt they "had to exercise that was the leveller.....if I don't do it [exercise] I'm in true trouble." Other participants reported sleeping for brief periods of time "a ten minute energy nap and I am fine again". Some participants implied they tried to not rely on medication for managing their AS because of the several sideeffects seasoned. The following quote illustrates this scenario: "I was taking indomethacin for the discomfort however it triggered the bowel to flare up and I was hospitalised with that....so I attempt and handle without drugs if I can...but needless to say you will need to in the event the discomfort is very negative." As element of your focus group participants had been shown a three minute video clip on amitriptyline medication [24] (which can be prescribed prior to bedtime for fatigue and pain in chronic musculoskeletal situations), which includes how it operates, dosage and its benefits for managing chronic nerve discomfort. I took it for any couple of months.....it ju.Hen I wasn't sure if it was the medication...other members of my family also take higher doses of co-codamol and it sends them to sleep..." Also, fatigue is unpredictable "you can get this tiredness for no reason. It just comes on you..." whereas one more participant implied "I never ever discovered that I was tired generally, only right after a flare up." Function commitments were on 1 hand viewed as a motivator for life, a single participant said "it [job] keeps me going", but alternatively an additional participant who completed operate as a result of fatigue in AS stated "I have completed operate now so I am managing substantially far better, but when I was functioning I found it really difficult, you could just cry or you felt physically sick because you felt so tired." In agreement 1 participant stated "In the end I just gave up operate...it produced it much easier physically not obtaining to go in, but I nevertheless obtain I am getting periods of mood swings and depression...the longer it [sleep problems] goes on then the additional mood swings kick in." A different participant located it "hard to concentrate in function because you felt so tired." There was a common consensus more than the uncertainty of no matter whether the symptoms of AS (for example discomfort, impaired sleep) caused fatigue or if fatigue was a symptom of AS. One particular participant questioned "Has the humira [adalimumab] helped me with all the fatigue or has it helped with my sleeping pattern which has indirectly helped with my fatigue?". The following theme highlights self-management interventions employed by participants such as experiences and challenges. (two)Current limitations (of self-management) Participants were encouraged in the concentrate group to talk about what interventions or treatments they had tried, or wanted to try with regard to self-managing their fatigue.