Multiple sclerosis and fatigue happen to be closely associated in a large number of MS patients. This inextricable association between multiple sclerosis and fatigue complicates the lives of the MS patients considerably.

One of the distinctions of fatigue in multiple sclerosis patients is that it is more pervasive and debilitating than typical fatigue. To anybody looking for parallels to the fatigue associated with multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome is probably most apt. Multiple sclerosis fatigue and CFS are similar in the sense that patients with either condition are always fatigued, no matter what the situation. Hour of sleep do not relieve either form of fatigue. In addition, the fatigue extends beyond the physical realm: patients experience mental exhaustion and cognitive difficulties (difficulty concentrating and remembering). Patients with either condition also experience muscular weakness and depression.

There are, however, many distinctions between the two conditions. For one, they have distinctly different …