Love@19 gave the 1994 research definition for chronic fatigue syndrome (chronic fatigue is a single symptom of many diseases and as noted here some mental illnesses, syndromes on the other hand are a...
One of the issues here is that there is no diagnostic test to prove someone has fibromyalgia. It is quite possible that a number of conditions are covered by the current diagnostic criteria all of...
You have been given some very good advice. I would second the advice on magnesium as it is also used in the ATP energy cycle and may alleviate some of your fatigue. Gabapentin was also mentioned and...
Hi Christian, Many patients with severe health issues experience very normal depression - you'd be a bit abnormal if you didn't. But, depression isn't a symptom of any disease and both doctors and...
Most clinicians believe myalgic encephalomyelitis, sometimes also called CFS, can be diagnosed clinically after a month. Research diagnosis is after 6 months, but that has no clinical meaning...
Clinicians who treat CFS patients consider CFS to be a neurological disorder and indeed it is thus classified by the World Health Organization. But just having symptoms in common is not enough as the...
Although you meet the research definition for CFS, a clinical diagnosis is much more complex. Inflammation may or may not rule out CFS, but it doesn't preclude it. Despite the name, Chronic Fatigue...