I can read for 1-2 minutes. That's all. Otherwise I feel awful.

I have just recently regained the ability to read books. I have been ill for four years and during that time reading was near impossible. The print would blur into big black squiggles that made no sense. Intense focusing could free up the words but induced the worst kin of headache. My concentration was shot too so by the time I reached the bottom of the page I would forget what it said at the top.

This ability has just returned in the last few months and I am back to my bookworm ways, although mindful to not overdo, too much reading in one day sends my head to dizzy land the next day.

I don't have too much problems watching tv but feel it is wise to limit screen time, especially in the evening. The light emitted from most modern tv's really messes up the sleep pattern.

I've lost my ability to read for the past year. I hope to regain this soon as reading is one of my favorite pass times.

So far I haven't had too much trouble with TV except when my eyes are tired or when I have a headache and need quiet.

I can watch TV and I do. I enjoy it a lot! But I only watch it in the evening for about two hours. Watching TV actually makes me drowsy, which works before bedtime, but would mess up my day.

Reading is something that unfortunately, I have lost my ability to do. This is very sad to me, as I was once an avid reader. I'm not able to concentrate. I have to start sentences over, and I don't comprehend or remember the next day, what I read the day before. It's too much of a struggle for me.

I can read a chapter of a book.....on a good day, and then the next chapter the next day...but if a crash comes along reading stops....and I forget everything I read. So, for me, reading is just too hard.

Very sad. I love books!

I went through a period of several years when I had to give up reading anything but short articles on ME/CFS. I'd try so hard, but the words seemed to have no meaning. It was like the ability to interpret them was gone. I also had a lot of trouble understanding what people said to me...sometimes I would just pretend to understand what they were saying.

Then, in the strange way these things happen, most of that went away. I still get spells of it and I always have to use the captions to understand the dramas I watch on TV, but I can watch TV and read novels again.

It does wear me out, so I read a bit, then turn the ebook reader off for fifteen minutes or so...then go back to it. That seems to work. But whatever it was that completely cut me off from reading, that eased up. I can really see a difference.

Absolutely can relate. I was worried my mind was going permanently due to illness, medications, or both; and was very sad because I have ALWAYS loved reading (used to even read while I walked, exercised, etc...then the past few years got to where I could hardly complete a page). Fortunately for me, like Jenn1fer, I have just recently regained this ability, much to my great relief. It hasn't been easy or without a cost. I suffer from now daily migraines (though not severe thanks to my new CaffErgot specially compounded prophylactic rx). I also found that to be able to read in increasing amounts more effectively, I had to sort of "outsmart' my body/kind's bizarre resistance by figuring out where and how I was most likely to be able to maintain concentration & doing that no matter how odd it felt. In my case, that turned out to be in my car in a parking lot, off my tablet/e-reader device because if I am home and my bed is anywhere near, I end up just wanting to go to sleep, or my hands hurt too bad to hold a book for long. I felt silly reading in my car so often, but it worked! - & Ultimately, I even returned to school last quarter (after 20 yrs since my BA degree), and earned a 5.0 my 1st quarter back.

Oops, my reply should have read a 4.0, not a 5.0, obviously. Too tired tonight to proofread.:(

I've been there in the past. I found it was primarily two things - 1. my eyes were too tired 2. my hands were too tired to hold the book.
What helped - getting an e-reader that allows for larger print and using it to read me the books - kindle does that.
Still now I find my reading rx changes from nothing needed one day to 2.00 needed the next. I have 4 different strengths of reading glasses by the bed.

I have gone through periods where I couldn't read during a flare-up but have always regained the ability. Try not to worry. Rest up. Give your body what it needs. The ability will return. I have a good feeling about it.