Posts Tagged ‘chronic fatigue syndrome’
The Great Mistake: renaming Chronic Fatigue to Systemic Exertion Intolerance
Recently there has been a move in the U.S to rename Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), also referred to as M.E to instead be called Systemic Exertion Intolerance. As someone that suffered with the condition for over 6 years, neither term makes sense to me. I always felt that ‘Fatigue’ was a poor way to describe…
Read MorePayback’s a bitch!
6 years a slave to CFS During my 6 years of struggling with CFS through university, 3 jobs and 3 home moves, one of the things that always seemed strange to me, was that I could be exhausted, have aches and pains and other horrendous symptoms but if I did something I enjoyed like seeing…
Read MoreOvercoming CFS
Using 6 years of illness to help others Waterskiing, clubbing and attending the odd lecture were all part of my fairly regular university experience. That all changed very suddenly though when in 1999 in my second year at Plymouth University I was struck down by a flu virus which kept me off university for over…
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