Causes of Chronic Fatigue: At Last, New Ideas for Understanding this Debilitating Disease
June 26th, 2009 | by Guest Author |Modern day poor health conditions are often associated with fatigue. Specifically, there are now conditions where fatigue is the main symptom of the disease. All of these conditions, regardless of the disease name, have similar symptom patterns. The most common names are fibromyalgia, Sjogren’s Syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and Gulf War Syndrome.
CFS is considered by medicine today to be a subclass of chronic fatigue. Chronic fatigue is characterized by the lack of defining symptoms that allow for a medical diagnosis. The pathology and causes of CFS and of chronic fatigue are unknown.
A small percentage of chronic fatigue sufferers are diagnosed with CFS. The symptoms experienced by people with CFS include:
* concentration and memory problems
* concentration and memory problems
* concentration and memory problems
Multiple symptoms are expressed:
* psychiatric problems
* sleep disturbances
* feverishness
* tender lymph nodes
* sore throats
* psychiatric problems
People’s lives are disrupted as a result of the symptoms and often lose jobs, have social problems, and get divorced. Even across the spectrum of the more severe symptoms of CFS, chronic fatigue sufferers can experience the same life-changing situations.
The Interesting Feature of the Causes of Chronic Fatigue is that They are Multi-Factorial — Many Symptoms at the Same Time.
Scientists and medical doctors are desperately trying to unravel the mysteries of these conditions which disrupt the lives of so many millions of people. Chronic fatigue is one of the major conditions suffered by the vast majority of the population.
Is it possible that vaccines are implicated in some of the chronic diseases of our time? This burning question is all over the news particularly in the condition of autism. Recent research implicated vaccines as one of the causes of Gulf War Syndrome. The idea behind vaccines is to stimulate a protective effect by activating the immune system. But if it turns-on and stays on, then it begins to do damage itself and may lead to the symptoms of CFS.
The research was clear: vaccines, such as that used to fight anthrax, were involved in the cause of Gulf War Syndrome which is just another part of the chronic fatigue classification. This goes against the prevailing viewpoint and a great deal of resistance will arise to squash this notion so it doesn’t get a strong start.
Medicine has a strangle-hold on health care and most people rely on the medical system to guide health choices. Chronic fatigue presents people with a problem: they have fatigue, but medicine has no solutions. There are other choices such as alternative medicine, but it’s hard to find reliable practitioners who understand the options that are available.
It’s clear that chronic fatigue and CFS patients possess an immune system imbalance. There is decreased function in:
* other immune system markers
* other immune system markers
* other immune system markers
Yet, there is no clear link between abnormal immunity and CFS. That’s what makes this whole subject so difficult to define and leads one to realize that only out-of-the-box solutions are workable to help provide relief for those who suffer from chronic fatigue.
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