Modern day poor health conditions are often associated with fatigue. Specifically, there are now conditions where fatigue is the main symptom of the disease. All of these conditions, regardless of the disease name, have similar symptom patterns. The most common names are fibromyalgia, Sjogren’s Syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and Gulf War Syndrome.
Chronic fatigue plaques a large percent of the population while a diagnosis of CFS applies to fewer than 2% of the population. These conditions show multiple symptoms and enough different ones need to be present for a diagnosis of CFS. The symptoms experienced by those diagnosed with CFS are more severe and debilitating than those that disturb people with chronic fatigue.
Chronic fatigue is a less severe form of chronic fatigue syndrome but both conditions have similar symptom pictures characterized by variations in symptom intensity:
* headaches
* disabling fatigue
* disabling fatigue
Other symptoms are:
* sore throats
* sleep disturbances
* feverishness
* skeletal muscle pain
* tender lymph nodes
* sore throats
People’s lives are disrupted as a result of the symptoms and often lose jobs, have social problems, and get divorced. Even across the spectrum of the more severe symptoms of CFS, chronic fatigue sufferers can experience the same life-changing situations.
Chronic Fatigue Causes are Multi-Factorial and Defy One-Cause-Fits-All Descriptions
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.
One interesting new piece of research about Gulf War Syndrome was the notion that vaccines administered to soldiers, such as anthrax, caused the condition. It has been shown that viruses and vaccines induce an immune system response that does not turn off. What follows is a chronic activation of the immune system that’s clinically expressed as the symptoms of CFS.
The research was clear: vaccines, such as that used to fight anthrax, were involved in the cause of Gulf War Syndrome which is just another part of the chronic fatigue classification. This goes against the prevailing viewpoint and a great deal of resistance will arise to squash this notion so it doesn’t get a strong start.
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 well understood that people with chronic fatigue and CFS have an imbalance in their immune system. In some of the immune system functional markers, they show some abnormalities:
* macrophages
* other immune system markers
* other immune system markers
It’s been difficult to identify if there is an association between immune system markers and CFS — the picture isn’t clear at all. Because this work has gone on for more than one hundred years with no final resolution, it’s clear that another approach that differs from the one taken by mainstream medicine may be the best option to look at now.
