Thursday 17 May 2012

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME


Imagine this scene. A lady wakes up in the mourning she feels exhausted already as if she has being running a 100 meters race, as she takes care of the kids she is exhausted, she takes a shower she is exhausted she drives the kids to school and proceeds to her office she is exhausted. Imagine this for a month or two. It will really be a painful experience.
Surveys has shown that chronic fatigue syndrome in the United states alone range from 4 to 265 of every 100,000 adults 8 percent of the diagnosed cases occur in white women with the average age of 30 years.
Although there is no know evidence that chronic fatigue syndrome can be transmitted from person to person. It is a debilitating disorder. Its conditions including a relapsing fatigue lasting for six or more consecutive months.
SYMPTOMS OF CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME
1. Impaired concentration
2. Shorter memory loss
3. Muscle and joint pain
4. Sleeping disturbance (insomnia)
5. Depression



Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has being known by many names such as Epstein- bar virus (EBV) Disease, myalgic encephalomyelitis. What ever the name it’s called the effect it causes are indeed painful.
CAUSES OF CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME
Studies show that there is no know cause or cure for chronic fatigue syndrome. But the disease may have links to certain virus and bacteria’s such as human t-cell leukemia virus (HTLV) human herpesvirus-6 and enteorviruses.
MEDICATION FOR CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME
1. EFFEXOR: This is an anti-depressant that can help alleviate some of the pain associated with chronic fatigue syndrome as well as mental clarity.
2. PROVIGIL: it helps increase the mental alertness of the patient and it also helps the patient to have a positive attitude to the illness. The interesting part is that the drug has no side effects.
3. NEURONTIN: neurontin helps stop convulsion it could be used to treat headaches, circadian rhythm disorder, mood problems as well as pain.

Understanding Chronic Fatigue


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Many people wonder what it's like to have chronic fatigue and I just say them to try and imagine having a cold without the congestion that never gets any better. Sometimes I tell them having chronic fatigue is like driving 1000 miles non-stop. That feeling of being lost, tired, your eyes are tired and you just want to pull into a rest stop and go to sleep.
Unfortunately for CFS sufferers, the bed doesn't do much to help the symptoms.
When you have chronic fatigue syndrome you feel fatigued for long periods of time, such as months, have severe headaches, nausea, muscle cramps, joint pain, light sensitivity and many other symptoms.
Unfortunately for people who have fatigue issues, there's no known cures available. The only thing you can do to treat chronic fatigue syndrome is learn to pace yourself, find a pain medication that seems to work without many side effects as well as get much needed rest. Rest is something that us CFS sufferers get a lot of.
Over time you start to realize that you can't perform your daily tasks such as doing laundry, going out to eat, seeing friends, watching long movies. It's very easy for depression to set in at this point and panic. It is everyday that you read a new “magic formula” for people with CFS, you think it sounds interesting, you try it and are let down because it seemed the treatment was pure snake oil.
This goes on and on again, after all you have to be your own doctor, because the doctors don't actually know what CFS is.
Really, CFS is something that you will have to learn to deal with. You will have to deal with doctors saying that there isn't anything that they can do to help your situation, except to send you to pain management doctors.
It is not uncommon for a CFS sufferer to be recommended to a therapist for a mental evaluation. It is so easy to become depressed, develop social anxiety when you have a limited disabled lifestyle.
You can keep CFS at bay for a little while with exercise, but your body soon will tell you that it needs to take a much needed break. Those signs that you need a break will start to become everyday until you are laying in bed 85% of the time. It's really a never ending cycle that snowballs out of control. Since you are unable to perform as many tasks, you find yourself laying in bed more often, the body starts to put on weight, which really increases the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome.
Everyone is different and there are many things that you can do to lessen your symptoms. Just because there isn't a known cure for chronic fatigue, doesn't mean that there aren't ways to make coping with it easier for you and your family. Things such as different types of vitamins help you with pain, concentration, joint pain, sleep. Different types of sleep aids, natural and prescription will help your body get a more restorative sleep. You just have to find the right formula that works with your body, never give up hope!
For more information on lethargy, visit http://www.discoveryfatigue.info. Feel free to comment, let's open up some discussion and fight fatigue together!