Chronic Fatigue

I don't know what to do. I just can't take this anymore. I can handle the joint pain, but I'm just so tired all the time I feel like I'm dying. Doctors can't find anything wrong with me other than RA. The last time I told my rheumatologist how I felt she pretty much blew me off. She said RA causes you to get worn out easily, but it should'nt make you tired in the morning. She suggested maybe I have a sleep disorder. The thing is, I have no trouble sleeping- that's all I want to do!

Every morning I feel like I got hit by a truck, and I'm nauseous (and I'm definitely not pregnant). I live on diet pills with caffeine and/or sinus medicine with pseudoephedrine, just so I can go to work. Anyone else would be hyper from the stimulants, but I can just barely make it through eight hours of work, then I go home and take a 2-hour nap. I'm awake for 3 hours in the evening, then go back to bed. I have no life left.

Is the doctor right, or is this normal with RA? Does anyone else have such horrible fatigue and weakness all the time? It seems I feel the most fatigued on the same days I have a lot of joint pain, so it seems to me like it's connected. And, as I've said they can't find anything else wrong with me.

I've been on Plaquenil for a year and it's touch and go with the joints. Some weeks I feel fine and others I hurt all over. I don't know if it's doing anything for me or not, but I just don't know how long I can go on feeling this way. I don't have the option of quitting my job, but some days I wish I could just pass out at work so I can finally rest, and so people will believe me.

Please help!