| Do you feel tired lately? Are you having trouble | | | | There is just no logical explanation of why you |
| getting up from bed? Does fatigue seem to | | | | are having this seemingly lifelong depressing |
| embrace you as though your energy has been | | | | exhaustion. In addition to the long term fatigue, |
| drained out from your life? These symptoms are | | | | you are also experiencing symptoms such as |
| associated with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) | | | | aching muscles, painful joints, memory and |
| but the truth is CFS is more than just being tired. | | | | concentration problems, frequent onsets of sore |
| Even if you are experiencing painful joints, aching | | | | throats, and swollen lymph nodes in the neck. |
| muscles, memory and concentration problems, | | | | If you are experiencing an increase of the above |
| headache and sore throat every now and then in | | | | symptoms before an exercise, then your |
| addition to the above fatigue problems, more | | | | condition stands a higher chance of being classified |
| factors are needed to diagnose whether you are | | | | as CFS. It seems that exercising makes all the |
| having chronic fatigue syndrome. CFS is indeed | | | | other symptoms worse. Most doctors would use |
| very difficult to diagnose as its symptoms and | | | | the process of elimination to diagnose whether |
| conditions are similar to other common illness. | | | | you have CFS or not. They will carry out |
| Since fatigue can come and go, and it does look | | | | interview, physical examination, tests and |
| invisible, this makes it even harder for your | | | | treatments of the symptoms that you have to |
| doctor to classify your depressing and life zapping | | | | differentiate CFS from other common illnesses |
| condition as CFS. Furthermore, the diagnosis | | | | and then conclude whether you do indeed have |
| process is made more difficult as CFS comes | | | | CFS. |
| with a multitude of symptoms. | | | | Even though a six-month duration of fatigue is |
| According to CDC, more than 80 per cent of | | | | used by doctors to diagnose a CFS condition, you |
| people who have CFS have not been diagnosed | | | | do not have to wait for six months to get a |
| properly and therefore they are not getting the | | | | diagnosis of your condition. There are many CFS |
| appropriate treatments for their diseases. | | | | symptoms that can raise your suspicion on the |
| The golden rule of CFS diagnostic used by | | | | disease. If you experience these symptoms |
| doctors is whether you experience unusual | | | | accompanied by persistent fatigue that occur a |
| exhaustion for a prolonged period of time ( | | | | few times during a month period and each event |
| normally defined as six months and above). This | | | | lasts around a week, then it is best to pay a visit |
| long term exhaustion or fatigue will not go away | | | | to the doctor to get a diagnostic. |
| even if you have enough sleep and plenty of rest. | | | | |