By Adrienne Dellwo — 2021
There are many options for managing symptoms and improving quality of life, including lifestyle changes, stress management, therapy, and medications.
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Understand life with chronic illness in a way that’s never been explained before, using Christine Miserandino’s “Spoon Theory.”
Don’t accept regular fatigue as part of aging.
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It’s the rare person who doesn’t need help coping with the stress, fatigue, and frustrations that chronic fatigue syndrome can bring. As a caregiver, you’ll need to learn all you can about chronic fatigue support.
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You may want to keep a daily diary of your activities and symptoms, so you can track how much activity is too much for you. This may help you avoid pushing too hard on the days you feel good, which can result in a “crash” where you feel much worse later.
Do you ever get downright angry with your body? Do symptoms of fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, or other chronic illnesses make you want to yell at yourself?
Most people with these illnesses agree that stress makes symptoms worse, sometimes even triggering debilitating flares.
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a condition that can be hard to cope with. But you can adopt some strategies to make it easier.
After months of dealing with constant, extreme exhaustion that wouldn’t go away no matter how much I slept, in 2015, a doctor told me I had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).
Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with chronic fatigue syndrome may receive inappropriate care due to a widespread misunderstanding of this condition among health care workers
In an extract from her book Cure, Jo Marchant tells the story of Samantha Miller, one sufferer of the controversial condition.