Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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The illness has an individual element - your particular version is probably not the same as anyone else's in all its respects. As a result, you may find that a treatment that relieves particular symptom(s) for someone else may not do the same for you - indeed it could even make you feel worse. On the other hand, something which someone else found to be of little use could be useful for you. Both mainstream and complementary medicine practitioners have some ideas which you could consider.
Some Symptoms
Muscle symptoms include exercise intolerance and post-exertional malaise (i.e. feeling shattered the day after undue physical activity), pain/myalgia (present in around 75% of people) and fasciculations (visible twitching of the muscles which sometimes includes blepharospasm/eyelid twitching).
Brain and Central Nervous System symptoms include cognitive dysfunction (problems with short-term memory, concentration and maintaining attention), clumsiness, disequilibrium likened to 'walking on rubber', and word finding abilities. Problems with control of the autonomic nervous system results in palpitations, sweating episodes and symptoms associated with low blood pressure/postural hypotension (e.g. fainting).
Symptoms which suggest on-going abnormalities in immune system function include sore throats, enlarged glands, joint pains, headaches, problems with temperature control and intermittent flu-like feelings.
Other symptoms which frequently occur in ME/CFS include sleep disturbances (often increased requirements at the onset followed by an inability to maintain a full night's sleep), alcohol intolerance (a very characteristic feature, particularly in the early period of illness) and irritable bowel symptomatology.
Some people also develop emotional lability or mood swings and features of clinical depression as time goes on.
Besides these more obvious and wide-spread symptoms there are also myriad "minor" ones. Not everyone experiences all of them and often they are not mentioned when patients describe their illness; however there is often very visible relief when they find others, too, have similar experiences.
ME/CFS symptoms tend to fluctuate in severity throughout the course of a day and people often report that they have both 'good days' and 'bad days', although the term 'good' is often used in a relative sense. The illness nearly always results in a severe reduction in a person's ability to cope with all aspects of normal daily living (i.e. social and sporting activities, employment, household tasks). Relapses or exacerbations are often precipitated by infections, excessive physical or mental stress, general anaesthetics and surgical operations, and extremes of temperature.
JUST REMEMBER IT IS A RECOGNISED ILLNESS AND FIND A GOOD DOCTOR,
You don't have it....axiety, ocd, maybe.
forgetting things or having a hard time focusing,feeling tired even after sleeping,muscle pain or aches,pain or aches in joints without swelling or redness, feeling discomfort or "out-of-sorts" for more than 24 hours after being active,
headaches of a new type, pattern, or strength, tender lymph nodes in the neck or under the arm, sore throat, being Exausted (not just fatigued, the name can fool you!) and extreme weakness. You can sleep for over 12 hours and still feel tired.
Which is exactly how I am every damn day. So, before I actually go to a doctor, do you guys think there treatments will actually Work?
Just like last time I posted a similar thread to this, thinking I had depression.
That turned a big corner, and after reading some articles about being fatigued all the time, no matter how long you sleep, I guess I can say I have 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.'
I guess that solved some peoples questions about their lives.
(zaxxman if I'm correct).
Anyways, wish the best of luck to me
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That's because you said shit to me.