Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is an operational concept for clarifying the unknown etiology of the syndrome characterized by the sensation of abnormally prolonged fatigue. The vast majority of patients with CFS are interrupted in their daily or social lives by prolonged fatigue, headache, myalgia, ...
DR Lawson is a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Specialists and is the founder and medical director of Proactive Wellness Centers, PLC (PWC) of Tysons Corner, Virginia.
Doctors don't know what causeschronic fatigue syndrome, characterized by debilitating fatigue and chronic pain with symptoms that can wax and wane over time. In fact, very little aboutchronic fatigue syndromehas achieved medical consensus, not even the name. ...
Chronic fatigue syndrome finally gains respect. (cover story)An interview with doctors Jim Jones, Alan Pocinki, and Larry J. Sharp is presented regarding chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). When asked about how CFS gained their interests, they refer to the Lake Tahoe outbreak in Nevada in the ...
Q. I think i might have chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia. how can i tell the difference? So far, the doctors have not been able to diagnose anything and have basically been putting me on random medications just to relieve the symptoms. Symptoms I have: Fatigue (sleeping thirteen hour...
After months of testing, doctors announced theirdiagnosisof Ault’s condition. Chronic fatigue is a difficult issue Chronic fatigue syndrome makes an individual feel extremely tired. This fatigue lasts more than six months and becomes worse after any kind of physicalexertion. Patients may have difficu...
Chronic fatigue syndrome is characterised by intense fatigue, with duration of over six months and associated to other related symptoms. The latter include asthenia and easily induced tiredness that is not recovered after a night's sleep. The fatigue becomes so severe that it forces a 50% reduct...
who used the termneurastheniato described what he believed to be a neurosis with a fatigue component. Definitions and theories of its cause have changed over the years; many cases have been misdiagnosed as imaginary because doctors could find no cause. In the mid-1980s it came to the public...
The vast majority of patients with CFS are interrupted in their daily or social lives by prolonged fatigue, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, sleep disturbance, or brain dysfunctions. However, the pathogenesis of CFS remains unclear, and so there are still many medical doctors around the world who ...
What Causes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? The cause of CFS is unknown, but the condition may be related to infection with effects on the immune system. Several viruseshave been studied as possible causes of CFS, but no cause-and-effect relationship has been discovered. Some evidence indicates that ...