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Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Fibromyalgia syndrome is a widespread musculoskeletal pain and fatigue disorder which generally occurs in the muscles, ligaments, and tendons – the soft fibrous tissues in the body. This forum is for fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome (CFS/CFIDS). |
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08-10-2009, 10:03 PM | #8 | ||
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Hi Donna, so good to see your positive attitude and receptive thinking.
The fatigue in 'CFS' was put in to avoid medical and insurance claims, and to give the illness a psychological twist, all of this putting it back on the patient as being self-inflicted. Very nasty. That is why so many in the medical profession still treat it off-handedly and don't take it seriously. People die from ME, and in Canada there are more deaths from it than from lung disease or AIDS, I just read. Yet it gets no funding for research because of that medical confusion and mis-information. If you'd like to find out more, have a look at my daughter's website, where she tries to unravel the name confusion; lists symptoms and treatments. http://www.hfme.org/ There is no treatment as such, but lots you can do and try. If you come across 'CFS' again, you will now be able to straighten them out, and if a sufferer, guide them towards a proper diagnosis. Sorry to keep on, but it is a VERY important thing to get clarified. You may save someones life. I'm in Australia, by the way.
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