A recorded session on three things that may improve fatigue after stroke — from someone who lost years to it.
Made to sit alongside the rehab and treatment your medical team is already providing.
Nobody warned me this would be the hard part
I could handle the appointments. What I couldn’t handle were the long stretches with no energy and no purpose.
It’s not tiredness. Tiredness responds to sleep. This is closer to a battery going flat mid-sentence — the lights are on, and then they’re not.
The advice I was given was to rest. That was it. And resting more didn’t return the energy, it just removed the rest of my life from the equation.
Fatigue is also the thing that blocks everything else. You can’t do the exercises, the reading, the cooking or the social life if you’ve got nothing to spend.
I’m not a doctor. I spent years working this out anyway.
I had a stroke in 2012 at 37. A month later, a second bleed. Two years after that, a third — that one needed brain surgery.
Nobody could tell me what to do about the exhaustion, so I started testing things myself: what I ate, when I moved, how I structured a day.
Some of it worked. I’m back at work full time and my energy is better than it has been since before the stroke.
Since then I’ve recorded hundreds of conversations with other survivors for the Recovery After Stroke podcast. Fatigue comes up more than any other symptom, in nearly every episode.
How it works
1. Get instant access. One payment. It’s in your inbox straight away.
2. Watch or read it in one sitting, or three. It’s a single recorded session, not a course you have to keep up with.
3. Try one thing. Not all three. One, for a fortnight, and see whether anything shifts.
What you get
- The full recorded session — three specific things that may improve fatigue after stroke
- The audio as a downloadable MP3, so you can listen lying down with your eyes shut
- A full written transcript, so you can read it instead if concentration is the problem that day
- Yours to keep. No expiry, no schedule.
What this is not
It’s not a cure for post-stroke fatigue. Anyone offering you one is guessing.
It’s not medical advice, and it’s not a substitute for talking to your doctor about sleep, medication side effects or mood — all of which can drive fatigue and all of which need a clinician.
It’s three things worth trying, from someone who tried a great many things that didn’t work.
If today isn’t the day, that’s a fair answer
Fatigue is a poor reason to add another obligation. If you haven’t got it in you this week, don’t.
If you have:
