3 posts tagged “chronic fatigue syndrome”

Have you ever backed out on doing something you promised you'd do? Did you have a good reason for going back on your word? 
Submitted by enSue.

An ever present possibility - with a variable and chronic health condition every arrangement I make is provisional. This can often look flakey... I don't like this but that's how it goes. So I'd say, yes, good reason. And others in the same boat will probably agree that we often push ourselves and turn up (not liking to let others down) when we are very unwise to do so and end up paying the price,

You'll find links to the Radio 4 'You and Yours' programmes on M.E., which were broadcast last week, ::here  They are available as podcasts and some of them have transcripts. It's good that the condition is receiving recognition and publicity.

......Some scientists and many patients remain highly critical of the C.D.C.’s record on chronic fatigue syndrome, or C.F.S. But nearly everyone now agrees that the syndrome is real.“People with C.F.S. are as sick and as functionally impaired as someone with AIDS, with breast cancer, with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,” said Dr. William Reeves, the lead expert on the illness at the C.D.C.

......Studies have shown that people with the syndrome experience abnormalities in the central and autonomic nervous systems, the immune system, cognitive functions, the stress response pathways and other major biological functions. Researchers believe the illness will ultimately prove to have multiple causes, including genetic predisposition and exposure to microbial agents, toxins and other physical and emotional traumas. Studies have linked the onset of chronic fatigue syndrome with an acute bout of Lyme disease, Q fever, Ross River virus, parvovirus, mononucleosis and other infectious diseases.
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