Chronic Fatigue: New Concepts in Understanding this Disease
Posted on June 30, 2009
Filed Under Fitness |
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:
* disabling fatigue
* disabling fatigue
* concentration and memory problems
Other symptoms are:
* sleep disturbances
* tender lymph nodes
* psychiatric problems
* tender lymph nodes
* sore throats
* skeletal muscle pain
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 argument that vaccines are involved in the cause of disease is a heated one. It’s being hotly debated all over the world. The medical and scientific community will hear none of it and trot out their “research” to kill any argument. Research, however, can be used to support any argument, but if you’ve got the power broker upper hand, then it’s your research that’s paid attention to.
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 well understood that people with chronic fatigue and CFS have an imbalance in their immune system. In some of the immune system functional markers, they show some abnormalities:
* other immune system markers
* other immune system markers
* macrophages
As of now, there’s no obvious connection between CFS and an abnormal immune system. This lack of clarity is what clouds the picture of trying to figue out what’s going on. This lack of success has gone on a long time and opens the door to look at therapies that are outside of the mainstream medical community.
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