The medical diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is complex due to its similarity to other ill-defined disorders including fibromyalgia, Gulf War Syndrome, and Sjogren’s Syndrome. There’s a significant overlap between the symptoms associated with each of these conditions.
A large percentage of the population suffers from chronic fatigue which carries no medical diagnosis. A small subset suffer from CFS. The underlying causes of these conditions are unknown. On a sliding scale, people diagnosed with CFS (less than 2% of the population) suffer more than those who complain of chronic fatigue.
A small percentage of chronic fatigue sufferers are diagnosed with CFS. The symptoms experienced by people with CFS include:
* disabling fatigue
* disabling fatigue
* disabling fatigue
Additional symptoms include:
* psychiatric problems
* sleep disturbances
* skeletal muscle pain
* tender lymph nodes
* sore throats
* skeletal muscle pain
The symptoms of fatigue impact people’s lives in so many ways. There can be divorces, loss of jobs, problems in adjusting to daily living and social needs. These life-changing effects of chronic fatigue exist across the full spectrum of the conditions despite different levels of intensity of the symptom complex.
The Interesting Feature of the Causes of Chronic Fatigue is that They are Multi-Factorial — Many Symptoms at the Same Time.
There is much medical work going on to try to figure out what causes these syndromes which make such a huge impact on people’s lives. Daily chronic fatigue plaques a large portion 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.
Maybe taking a page out of non-medical treatments for autism, including the use of immune system builders such as colostrum, may be a good move. This points the way to the use of many unapproved-by-medicine treatments that rely on stimulating the body’s natural healing response rather than the current over-reliance on prescription medicines.
It’s clear that chronic fatigue and CFS patients possess an immune system imbalance. There is decreased function in:
* NK cells
* other immune system markers
* other immune system markers
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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