Fatigue Is Experienced And Perceived By Women Living With Fm

Summary Although all five of the articles that were reviewed are focused on how fatigue is experienced and perceived by women living with FM, each of them had their own approach. Soderberg, Lundman and Norberg (2002) states in the third article that experiencing fatigue often disrupts ones involvement in the world, Sallinen, Kukkurainen, Peltokallio and Mikkelsson (2010) also stated in their study that the women had reported the presence of negative effects on their relationship with their husbands. The fourth study also had a similar view of the phenomenon known as fatigue; Parrish, Zautra and Davis (2008) described fatigue as a feeling that has a negative impact on the daily functioning of the women. Each study focused on a different†¦show more content†¦They both looked at how the women felt when they first started to really experience fatigue and what roll it played in their lives in terms of how they kept going despite always feeling fatigue. Parrish, Zautra and Davis ( 2008) also had a similar interest, this study looked at how the women were experiencing fatigue on a day to day basis. They were able to view the impact that the daily lives of each women affected them the the next day, and what they had learn to do in order to minimize the negative effects associated with fatigue. When examining how the women deal with experiencing fatigue, all of the studies found that the women found fatigue as a burden that you just had to learn to adapt to. Lofgren, Ekholm and Ohman (2006) stated that in order to deal with the symptoms, the women had to accept the loss and grief in what ever way they saw possible. Lofgren, Ekholm and Ohman (2006) noticed that the women all shared feelings of anger, guilt and frustration, which according to Jeffers (2001) are all part of grief. Similar to the beliefs of Sallinen, Kukkurainen, Peltokallio and Mikkelsson (2012), the authors of the fourth study also believed that the women had to learn how to effectively live with FM; they had a positive approach at finding coping mechanisms ( Parrish, Zautra and Davis, 2008). In regards to participants, an obvious similarity is the fact that the studies were all done