What Are The Causes, Symptoms And Treatment Of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)?

What is chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)?

People with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are very tired. But there do have more people suffer from. When you have CFS?

1. You have suffered from a severe fatigue that is not about. Also if you take rest, the fatigue does not have or he comes back again. The fatigue does not come by continuous effort.
2. You can by the fatigue in your work and in your personal life much less well functioning than a healthy person.
3. There is no physical explanation for the fatigue.
4. You have the fatigue for at least six months.

Especially women have CFS, but there are also men who have it. CFS can start at any age; children can also get CFS.

Signs and symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome

Many people with CFS also have the following symptoms:

1. myalgia
2. joint pains
3. sore throat
4. tender cervical lymph nodes
5. concentration or memory problems
6. headache
7. exhaustion after exertion.

About two out of ten people with CFS have depression.
Chronic fatigue syndrome is also known as ME: myalgic encephalomyelitis.

What causes chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)

The exact cause of chronic fatigue syndrome is unknown. Some people are probably more sensitive to CFS than others. Who is more likely to have CFS?

1. You do things like good. Therefore quickly turn your own wants and needs aside. You also suffer from performance anxiety.
2. You have mental problems such as depression or an anxiety disorder.
3. You will experience a traumatic event that you have experienced a traumatic event in your childhood. For example, a death, a robbery, a traffic accident or an assault.
4. You live unhealthy.
5. You've long been troubled by stress. Therefore, the stress system in your body can get confused. This system distinguishes certain hormones under stress.

Not everyone who is likely to CFS, it also gains. CFS often begins after a traumatic event, for example:

1. a virus infection or a bacterial infection.
2. injury, surgery or injury.
3. pregnancy or childbirth.
4. an event that will cause stress.

How the doctor finds chronic fatigue syndrome?

Your doctor examines whether your symptoms are due to inflammation, infection or other illness. She also looks at whether your symptoms are psychological. You will diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome as the doctor is certain that you have nothing else. And if your symptoms last for half a year.

Not all doctors recognize CFS as a disease. This is because the cause is not yet clear. The Health Council recognizes CFS as a disease in its insurance protocol for CFS.

Treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)

There are no medications or therapies that can cure anyone with CFS. There are treatments that work for some people and for some symptoms.

In the conventional treatment teaches you to not too much and not too little of yourself questions. If you properly handle the energy you have and do not force yourself, symptoms may lessen.

Regular treatments are used in many chronic fatigue syndrome:

1. Cognitive behavioral therapy. This therapy assumes that people with CFS thinking and doing things which the CFS remains. A cognitive behavioral therapist can help these thoughts and to change this behavior.
2. Mindfulness. You will learn to break your fixed patterns. You can easily start thinking differently, feeling and doing.
3. Physiotherapy. The fatigue in CFS is often worse during intensive exercise. Yet it is important to keep moving; otherwise, your health further deteriorated. A physical therapist can help you to keep moving wisely.
4. Occupational therapy. An occupational therapist can help you to find the right balance between rest and activity. If it fails to find this balance, it is for some people with CFS possible to rebuild the daily activities.

Coping with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)

Whatever treatment you choose, you'll have to learn to deal with the chronic fatigue. The better you deal with the fatigue, the less stress you have. And that again increases the chance of recovery.
Some advice:

1. Talk to others about the fatigue. Want people around you do not see your fatigue, seek support from peers.
2. Go on a fixed time to bed and get up at a fixed time.
3. Learn to listen to your body. For example, by regularly doing the 'body scan'. That is an exercise where you put your attention on your body.

It is important that you are looking for a good balance between rest and exercise. What should you look for?

1. Try to arrange your day so that you are not clear more and more tired during the day.
2. Try to focus your days so that no more major differences between good and bad days.
3. Try to arrange your day so that you do not need to sleep during the day.
4. Do not go too long with things you tired. Try to operate in such a way that you are restored within half an hour to three quarters.
5. Try to arrange your day so that you also keep energy for unexpected situations.

It is not easy to achieve these things. You must therefore do much less than you used to. Yet it is important. It gives you a good starting position. You have to address this rhythm once, you can go try to strengthen your condition.