Thanks Ann. You are so right. I have managed to return to work. I work part time as I could not get past the three day mark in increasing my hours.
I most certainly plough on with rare occasions when I can’t!
It’s reassuring that others are experiencing similar things.
Thanks everyone!
Best wishes
@Loopyj
I still have very bad fatigue at 18 months past stroke, to think you still have it after 5 years is so depressing 
even though we are all different. I was hoping it would ease away.
I had my stroke in October 23. My fatigue kicks in if I do too much at once bit that might only be cutting chicken for ten mins- I’ll have to sit down. I’ve just had a 15 min walk and when I came back, all my upper body muscles were aching and I just had to get on the sofa straight away. Very frustrating.
I’m 3 years on now & I still find the fatigue very frustrating. I can, though, do more before the fatigue hits. It has taken a long time for me but others get there much quicker. Hopefully it’ll get better soon for you.
I’m similar to @Mrs5K with fatigue, I can certainly do a lot more than I did at 2-3 months after my stroke. You’ve got a ways to go yet, a year from now will be a much improved story 
Just be patient with yourself and don’t lose hope, it will get better. The first 6 months can be the hardest on that score, for coming to terms with and acceptance. It’s hard to come to terms with going from you whole life at a 100 miles an hour to suddenly 5 miles an hour, and your stroke brain hasn’t had a chance to process that fully yet, but it will in a little more time.
It will get to that stage of acceptance that you forget to test your limits. One day at the gym doing a circuit class, one of the 1 minute routines was to walk, jog or run a length of the gym for a minute. We are all over 50 in that class, one lady has just turned 90! When it came to my turn to walk I thought I’d try to jog. Well, my stroke brain didn’t quite get the same message, so when I started off to do a leisurely jog, I instantly went into an all out run which shocked me to the point I tripped over my feet and nearly face planted myself into the floor. So yes, I certainly found out I could do it, but I did struggle for a time getting my brain to compute, to remember the difference between a jog and a run…it does know now 
Of course then my brain could recognise the difference between a jug and walk. It did take a few days for the brain to catch up but it knows the all the differences now…it also knows when it doesn’t want jog at all and just leaves me standing there wondering what alternative I can do 
My TIAs were 16 months ago and physically I have been fortunate with only minor residual numbness to remind me of those rather frightening days. What has been more lasting and difficult is the anxiety, fatigue and dizziness.
As I am extremely hopeful of returning to a reasonable senmblence of my pre stroke level of activity and amusements I have devoted myself to devising compensatory strategies to, I suspect, the boredom of my GP.
Replacing clopidgrel with aspirin and statins with a 6 monthly injectable alternative has helped enormously with the dizziness. I reversed a lifelong aversion towards therapists and meditation and embrace them now fully; the subsequent improvement with my anxiety levels has really lifted me as has actually sleeping well most nights. So……… the final frontier - fatigue. I found myself nodding along to all the previous comments on this thread. Yes, we are all different but there’s an awful lot in common with our feelings and emotions on this most frustrating of debilities.
My current efforts are concentrated on establishing my limit in multiple areas - driving, walking, gardening, socialising, gym work, screen time, reading etc. and then just pushing them very gently but hopefully never enough to reduce myself to exhaustion. I agree with all who say that setting targets is great as long as they are general rather than specific.
I send best wishes, encouragement and sympathy to all who are on a similar path.
My main bit of advice is to set SMART targets.
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Realistic
Timely