What is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
Chronic fatigue syndrome (the other names include post-viral fatigue syndrome, ME VI, yuppie flu) is a complex disorder or condition that is characterized by extreme fatigue that cannot go away after a profound rest in bed and that can become worse with mental or physical activities.
If a person has chronic fatigue syndrome, all his functions are, generally, at a lower level of activity than they were before the disease has started. If to add to these key determining peculiarities, ill people complain of different nonspecific symptoms, such as feebleness, muscle pain, deteriorated mental and memory concentration, sleeplessness, and post-exertional exhaustion that lasts more than 24 hours. Chronic fatigue syndrome can drag on for several years in some severe cases. It has not been identified yet what the reasons of chronic fatigue syndrome are as there are no special diagnostic tests for the disease. What is more, as a lot of diseases have such a symptom as deep fatigue, many tests and examinations have to be taken in order to leave out other ill conditions before diagnosing of chronic fatigue syndrome.
It has not considered yet what the definition for chronic fatigue syndrome will be. A lot of debates are held nowadays that refer to the term and its description as the disease and becomes more and more common. There was even an international conference of CFS research experts gathered in 1994 to determine a definition of CFS that would be used both by the researchers who study the illness and for the clinicians who diagnose CFS.
The specialists state that in order to have a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome, an ill person needs to have the following:
- severe chronic exhaustion during six months or longer period of time;
-have four or more of the following symptoms at the same time: substantial worsening in short-term memory or concentration; sore throat; muscle pain; pain in joints without swelling or redness; tender lymph nodes; unusual headaches; unrefreshing sleep or insomnia; and post-exertional malaise that lasts more than 24 hours. If you have these symptoms, you are likely to have CFS.
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