Table 5.

Focus group quotes that exemplify the theme of Temporal Aspects of Fatigability

#	Group	Quote
30	Person with FM	For my fatigability, I sometimes can get more done – I get these wonderful spurt days.
31	Person with FM	Walking from 1 end of the house to the other, I have to sit down and it wasn’t like that a year ago.
32	Older Adult	I do notice that I get tired more quickly than I did when I was younger.
33	Older Adult	I don’t have the mental fatigue because I don’t have the challenge with as much with the job and I have just enjoyment throughout the day because you make your own decisions pretty much.
34	Older Adult	I know when I retired it took me a couple of months to get over the fatigue of having been working. I didn’t realize how stressful and fatiguing my job was until I wasn’t doing it.
35	Older Adult	When you’re working or you’re raising children… commitments are made by other people for you and you can’t get out of them. So I think it’s also less tiring because you’re not having to do so many things that you don’t really want to do or that’s not the time that you want to do them.