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Arthritis is a serious enough disease that disrupts your life enough, but many people with this condition also experience extreme fatigue, making it impossible to lead anything close to a normal life.<\/p>\nArthritis is a serious enough disease that disrupts your life enough, but many people with this condition also experience extreme fatigue, making it impossible to lead anything close to a normal life.<\/p>\n
A team of French scientists has just published a study in the journal Joint Bone Spine<\/em>, explaining the connection between these two conditions. <\/p>\n And reveals a solution for both.<\/p>\n They analyzed the information of 962 rheumatoid arthritis patients collected by a French COMEDRA cohort study.<\/p>\n This information included their fatigue, which was scored out of 10; with acceptable ranging from 0-2, moderate ranging from 3-4, and severe ranging from 5-10.<\/p>\n It also included their demographic characteristics, social status, physical activity level, arthritis disease activity level, and co-occurring conditions.<\/p>\n The average fatigue score was 3.8 out of 10, with 40% of the patients reporting severe fatigue.<\/p>\n On average, they had 1.8 co-occurring conditions, with the most common of these conditions being anxiety\/depression, something which 52% of the participants suffered from.<\/p>\n Depending on the statistical methods used, the most fatigued arthritis patients were female, unemployed, physically inactive, obese, and had any of the following:<\/p>\n 1.\tImpaired ability to function physically. The more factors they had, the worse both arthritis symptoms and fatigue tended to be.<\/p>\n Thus, working on reducing each of those connected factors will help improve both arthritis and fatigue.<\/p>\n I can relate to this. There are often times when my arthritis was so bad that I felt lightheaded and absent, and I couldn\u2019t even communicate with other people.<\/p>\n But after I managed to reverse my arthritis, I have never experienced any of these symptoms of fatigue again.<\/p>\n
\n2.\tMore than one co-occurring condition.
\n3.\tAnxiety\/depression.
\n4.\tChronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
\n5.\tHigh blood pressure.
\n6.\tSleeping difficulties.
\n7.\tExtreme pain.
\n8.\tLong disease duration for arthritis.<\/p>\n