Still With Chronic Fatigue
Many people wonder what it's like to have chronic fatigue and I just say them to try and imagine having the flu without the congestion that won't goes away. Sometimes I tell them having CFS is like driving 900 miles straight through. That feeling of being lost, fatigued, your eyes are tired and you just want to crawl into bed.
Unfortunately for CFS sufferers, the bed doesn't do much to reset your health.
When you have chronic fatigue syndrome you feel fatigued for long periods of time, such as weeks, have severe headaches, nausea, muscle cramps, joint pains that feel like arthritis, light sensitivity and a lot of symptoms.
Unfortunately for people who have fatigue issues, there are no known cures. 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 having many side effects as well as get much needed rest. Rest is something that us cfs sufferers get a lot of.
Over time you will 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 in the progression of chronic fatigue and have a break down. It is everyday that you read a new "magic formula" for this condition, you think it sounds interesting, you try it and are let down because it seemed the treatment was pure snake oil.
This often goes on, over and over again, after all you have to be your own doctor, because the doctors don't actually know what CFS is. Even if they know what CFS is, they haven't been trained to deal with it properly.
Really, CFS is something that you will have 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 recommend 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 a break. Those signs that you need a break will start to become everyday until you are laying in bed 80% 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, you start gaining weight, which really increases the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome.
As I said, everyone is different and there are many techniques 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 many 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, 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!
Unfortunately for CFS sufferers, the bed doesn't do much to reset your health.
When you have chronic fatigue syndrome you feel fatigued for long periods of time, such as weeks, have severe headaches, nausea, muscle cramps, joint pains that feel like arthritis, light sensitivity and a lot of symptoms.
Unfortunately for people who have fatigue issues, there are no known cures. 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 having many side effects as well as get much needed rest. Rest is something that us cfs sufferers get a lot of.
Over time you will 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 in the progression of chronic fatigue and have a break down. It is everyday that you read a new "magic formula" for this condition, you think it sounds interesting, you try it and are let down because it seemed the treatment was pure snake oil.
This often goes on, over and over again, after all you have to be your own doctor, because the doctors don't actually know what CFS is. Even if they know what CFS is, they haven't been trained to deal with it properly.
Really, CFS is something that you will have 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 recommend 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 a break. Those signs that you need a break will start to become everyday until you are laying in bed 80% 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, you start gaining weight, which really increases the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome.
As I said, everyone is different and there are many techniques 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 many 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, 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!
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