Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)

Dr Charles Shepherd, medical adviser to the ME Association, and who has ME, describes the symptoms, diagnosis and treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome.

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[shedevil50337]

You feel a bif CFSed too? Does that mean you cannot get out of bed, you shake uncontrollably, you scream with pain when a thin cotton sheet touches you, you cannot speak or open your eyes? That is what the illness means to me: I'm one of the 200 000 severely affected ones in the UK.

I think what you mean is you get a bit tired, & think that is all CFS is. I'd love to be able to do the dishes ... or anything other than lay in a darkened room with no sound or light, all day every day.

[moonwitch1981]

this is a very good and apt view of cfs/me

[PamelaViktoria]

I recovered. The highlights: Fluoride sits in your pineal gland, slowing down melatonin production. If you stop sleeping, you'll never recover. I went on the raw food diet. My PH went up to 6.6. (my lowest was 4.5 yikes! At 8 oclock, all our lights are turned off. From 10-12 oclock, your liver does magnificent work. If you have any questions, please ask. I wish someone could have told me all this, instead of experimenting over and over. Also feel free to look at my blog about my experience.

[synapse131]

@1marknz Serotonin syndrome? Do you have muscle twitches and spasms all over? Pressure caused "numbishness" (numbness localized to the area of pressure) and increasing pain? (from micro-circulatory dysfunction.) These symptoms are more characteristic of viral cardiomyopathic ME/CFS and if you don't have them, it might point another direction such as above. Which med was it?

[TheChocolateCheese]

At 15 in the middle of my GCSE's. It's a hard illness to cope with. I've had CFS for over 7 years now after get pneumonia in both my lungs and being in rehab in hospital for half a year when I was only 7. I have had CFS since and the hardest thing of all is people ignoring me at school. Because I haven't been I they think I am being mean or horrible and ignoring them which I'm not! I have tried B12's therapy, a strict programme and change in diet and nothing is working. Now I am failing my GCSE

[nz804]

This video has given me hope as I have had M.E for just over a whole year now. I feel a lot better listening to this advice. THANKYOU!

[nz804]

I have had M.E for 1 year and 1 month now it is horrible you can only do things for so long before you get wiped out with fatigue. I was on a medication that made me throw up for 3 months. It destroyed my immune system and I now have M.E. I am only 22 years old and my life has just begun, I can pretty much throw it all down the drain now, I am screwed.

[nz804]

I am 22 years old and I used to cycle 80 kilometers everyday without fail and it made me so so so fit. I was put in a mental hospital because I was on a medication that gave me restlessness for a whole year where I couldn't sit still for even a second. Then they put me on another medication that made me throw up for the whole 3 months I was in there, thus destroying my immune system, thus giving me M.E which I have had for over 1 year now.

[1marknz]

I have uploaded a video of myself

[1marknz]

@apocalist420 Last year I was put on a antipsyhcotic medication and it gave me restlessness to the point where I could not sit still for even a second. I went through this for a whole year until I came off the medication and was put on another that made me throw up for 2 and a half months. By that time due to stress I had developed chronic fatigue syndrome and I have had for 10 months. I hope I get to the point where I can go for a 30minute walk everyday.

[apocalist420]

Things to account for: Diet and heavy metals. Do not eat any processed food, research CFS diet and understand food intolerences (hypoallergenic diet). Do not consume any food additives, etc. Test for heavy metals such as Mercury. These are things linked to this disease, I hope I have helped. At least research these to great extent.

[Gashb]

Please be careful when listening to people like Dr Charles Shepherd. I'm sure he does have great experience of M.E/CFS, but easy to lose hope completely listening to such negative people. I attended his talks years ago and left feeling totally helpless (his book -Living With M.E.??? who wants to live with M.E?? How about recovery from M.E?). This IS a recoverable condition, whatever age, length of illness, severity.. I have and continue to see many people with this condition recover completely!