Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Body’s Mystery Disease

For most of its short history as a disease Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was ridiculed by the medical community. Understandably for those suffering from the affliction this rejection often caused depression. As the medical community now understands it, these feelings of dejection actually helped to perpetuate the disease by further depleting the individual’s immune system. A deficient immune system is one of the main causes for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Symptoms are the Key to Diagnosis

There are two main reasons CFS has been so elusive to pin down. First CFS manifests itself a little differently within each individual. No two people suffer alike. The second reason it’s difficult to discern CFS is because there are no diagnostic tools for the detection of the disease. For years doctors have used a set of symptoms to figure out if a person has the disease. It is generally agreed that if the individual has six of the following symptoms, for at least six months, they have CFS.

Methods for Decreasing Physical Pain

Pain is the necessary evil the body perpetuates against itself, not to torture it, but to warn the brain an injury has occurred. And, it’s a darn good warning signal too. Who’s going to walk on a broken leg, or allow an open wound to bleed and bleed? Without pain many people would do just that. Pain protects the body from further damage. But, the problem with pain is it is perpetual. There is no turn off switch once the signal has been received. Hence, the demand for pain relief is something 1 out of 5 adult Americans need on a daily basis.