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How Does Fibromyalgia Effect Every Day Living For People Who Suffer With It?
I have just beed diagnosed with fibromyalgia and i would like to know what to expect and how it could or will affect my every day life i am 32 female.
The Doctor’s Guide To Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Understanding, Treating, And Living With Cfids (Paperback)
From Publishers Weekly
Baptized by the press in 1985 as the “Yuppie Flu,” Chronic Fatigue/Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, otherwise known as CFIDS, is a bewilderingly little understood disease which combines severe fatigue with the presence of immune system markers. Bell, an instructor at Harvard Medical School, seeks to “provide an overview of the current knowledge of CFIDS, including history, signs and symptoms, clinical course, laboratory findings and recent advances.” The book is organized into five parts: an overview, a description of the disease, diagnostic tests, treatment options and the search for a cause. The author estimates that millions of Americans suffer from CFIDS, 30% of them children. The disease is still considered one of exclusion–a diagnosis of CFIDS is only considered when all other diseases which may cause the same groups of symptoms are ruled out. And diagnosis is difficult; the symptoms are misleading and may range from fatigue or exhaustion, headach (more…)
The Doctor’s Guide To Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Understanding, Treating, And Living With Cfids (Paperback)
From Publishers Weekly
Baptized by the press in 1985 as the “Yuppie Flu,” Chronic Fatigue/Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, otherwise known as CFIDS, is a bewilderingly little understood disease which combines severe fatigue with the presence of immune system markers. Bell, an instructor at Harvard Medical School, seeks to “provide an overview of the current knowledge of CFIDS, including history, signs and symptoms, clinical course, laboratory findings and recent advances.” The book is organized into five parts: an overview, a description of the disease, diagnostic tests, treatment options and the search for a cause. The author estimates that millions of Americans suffer from CFIDS, 30% of them children. The disease is still considered one of exclusion–a diagnosis of CFIDS is only considered when all other diseases which may cause the same groups of symptoms are ruled out. And diagnosis is difficult; the symptoms are misleading and may range from fatigue or exhaustion, headach (more…)