Reader Stories: Can You Always Stop Before You Overdo Activities?

Even with osteoarthritis, you want to live a full life and not hold back. If you overdo activities though, you pay the price with increased pain and fatigue. Ideally, you would be able to strike a balance between rest and activity. But it's not a perfect world we live in. You have responsibilities, a job, a family, and other assorted demands on your time.

Are you always able to stop before you overdo activities? If not always, have you gotten better at pacing your activities and stopping before you overdo? Is that something that took time to learn?