
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Support Group
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) describes a sense of exhaustion and post-exertion malaise, even when you have gotten enough rest and sleep. The disease is characterized by six months of incapacitating fatigue experienced as profound exhaustion and extremely poor stamina, and problems with concentration and short-term memory. The cause is unknown, but it is a...
Then came crappy sleep or no sleep. Then
came CFS.
I am so lost with what came first... I seem to have it all sometimes i really honestly worry myself to death that i have multipal personalities cause one day I am so tierd and for a week i cant sleep one day i am manic then the next i am high and geesh everyday is a symptom of one of my many syndromes.. how can i be cfs and hyper and then have the flashbacks then paranoid and then so carefree so lifeless then so extremly overjoyed all in one week. There has to be one and only one name for all this.. I worry i have multipals a lot. I have been told by my closest friends even one doctor that i very well could be... I am lost so very lost.. I wonder if it started back in the time of my life that i guess i blackouted.. ages birth to about 8. Not all of it I remember some holidays. I am such a bundle of craziness. I feel totally normal non the less. I have tons of friends and they all get a kick out of me and my laughable delimas..
I didn't die. After much testing and grueling procedures, I was diagnosed with CFIDS. Believe it or not, seven months later, I am still in bed most of the time.
This illness just snuck up and wacked me in the head, and it's still here.
Gotta pray myself through each day. God is my hope. As far as the fibro goes. I don't believe I have that. My pain is in my joints, but I don't have trigger points and several of the other "must haves" to be called fibromyalgia.
Sincerely, Darla