The medical diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is complex due to its similarity to other ill-defined disorders including fibromyalgia, Gulf War Syndrome, and Sjogren’s Syndrome. There’s a significant overlap between the symptoms associated with each of these conditions.

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.

A small percentage of chronic fatigue sufferers are diagnosed with CFS. The symptoms experienced by people with CFS include:

* headaches

* concentration and memory problems

* headaches

Additional symptoms include:

* psychiatric problems

* tender lymph nodes

* psychiatric problems

* tender lymph nodes

* sleep disturbances

* psychiatric problems

Due to these complaints, people often face social problems, loss of jobs, and the break-up of marriages. Although these symptoms are often less severe in one with chronic fatigue (no diagnosis), the complications of living with this condition are similar to CFS (diagnosed).

The Causes of Chronic Fatigue are Many and Don’t Allow for a One Cause/One Disease Diagnosis

Scientists and medical doctors are desperately trying to unravel the mysteries of these conditions which disrupt the lives of so many millions of people. Chronic fatigue is one of the major conditions suffered by the vast majority of the population.

Is it possible that vaccines are implicated in some of the chronic diseases of our time? This burning question is all over the news particularly in the condition of autism. Recent research implicated vaccines as one of the causes of Gulf War Syndrome. The idea behind vaccines is to stimulate a protective effect by activating the immune system. But if it turns-on and stays on, then it begins to do damage itself and may lead to the symptoms of CFS.

What’s interesting about this observation is that it supports the arguments of many parents of autistic children that vaccines were a prime factor in the cause of autism. The medical establishment and government, however, have squashed these assertions.

Medicine has a strangle-hold on health care and most people rely on the medical system to guide health choices. Chronic fatigue presents people with a problem: they have fatigue, but medicine has no solutions. There are other choices such as alternative medicine, but it’s hard to find reliable practitioners who understand the options that are available.

As of now, there’s no obvious connection between CFS and an abnormal immune system. This lack of clarity is what clouds the picture of trying to figue out what’s going on. This lack of success has gone on a long time and opens the door to look at therapies that are outside of the mainstream medical community.

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