Friday, October 17, 2008

Treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Fibromyalgia

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or the Chronic Fatigue Dysfunction Syndrome is characterized by some symptoms that are often confused to be because of high blood pressure or influenza. The person often feels fatigued for long periods of time, with muscle cramps, severe headache, nausea and other symptoms that are not cured by long rests. Even the fatigue suffered by individuals suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is debilitating and prolonged leading to gradual decrease in the person’s ability to perform even daily activities due to tiredness.

Unlike influenza or high blood pressure, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome makes the person more tired by the day. The symptoms do not let up without proper treatment for at least some relief if not a total cure. In the event an individual is suffering from all the mentioned symptoms such as acute tiredness that stops from even doing the basic everyday tasks, body pain, nausea, headache, and so on for more than half a year, then it can be safely assumed that the patient is suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and immediate treatment is in order.

Fibromyalgia syndrome is somewhat similar to chronic fatigue syndrome in the sense that both are chronic diseases. However, Fibromyalgia is characterized by severe pain in specific areas of the body such as neck, shoulders, spine and hips. This disease, unlike chronic fatigue that centers mostly in the joints or muscles and nerves, affects all the pressure points in the body. It also affects the bowel movements in a patient to a large extent. Also, most affected parts in Fibromyalgia syndrome are the chest, ribcage, thighs, knees, hips, lower back, and spine, along with the neck, shoulders, elbow joints, knee joints and arms.

In the Western world, one in four people suffer from prolonged tiredness in one form or another, with 25% of women suffering clinically diagnosed day time tiredness. Is it any wonder tiredness is gaining a reputation as the modern plague? When we do suffer from tiredness, we can do a number of things to try and reduce the symptoms. Things like sleep more, drink a lot of coffee, have an energy drink, take energy pills, or other forms of stimulant. These five things aren't doing anything good for us in the long term.

When I used to sleep 10 to 12 hours, I'd find myself waking up and feeling really groggy, like I'd only had a couple of hours sleep. I used to wonder how people like Jay Leno could be so full of energy and only have 4 hours sleep. Thomas Edison explains this quite succinctly: "Most people overeat 100% and over sleep 100% because they like it. That extra 100% makes them unhealthy and inefficient. The person who sleeps eight to ten

A cup of coffee is just a stimulant. It will pick you up for a short amount of time, then you'll feel tired again and need another one. Next time you reach for that coffee pot, think about the fact that coffee can actually make you more tired, by causing iron and Vitamin D deficiency - both causes of chronic fatigue syndrome.

Like with coffee, energy drinks are a quick pick me up. But energy drinks often have an extremely high amount of caffeine in them, so you should think carefully what you are putting into your system and the long term effects of doing this. And you feel worse after the short buzz anywhere (yes been there too).

Caffeine is not a healthy stimulant, every time you take a high dose of caffeine, you are making your heart beat faster than it should you are sending a surge of blood to your brain. Once again you will feel the effects of energy pills for a little while, but when your catches up you will be even more tired. I remember taking about 6 caffeine pills for all night study session, and going to lie down the following afternoon just for a little rest and then waking up 6 hours later!
The stimulants already mentioned and other stimulants (both legal and not) only have the effect of mastering the symptoms of tiredness. They do absolutely nothing, absolutely nada for excessive tiredness and chronic fatigue syndrome. Instead by consistently using these stimulants you can end up pushing your body to its limits and burnout resulting in even more tiredness. It becomes a Catch 22 situation.

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