Suffer From Chronic Pain, Depression And Illness?
Some individuals suffer from flu-like symptoms that never seem to clear up. These were formerly vigorous people who now feel tired and depressed most of the time.
Chronic fatigue syndrome is a complicated disorder characterized by extreme fatigue that doesn’t improve with bed rest and may worsen with physical or mental activity. Unlike influenza symptoms, which usually subside in a few days or weeks, the signs and symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) can last much longer. They may come and go frequently with no identifiable pattern.
Many people suffer from chronic symptoms that have no real medical handling in traditional medicine. Although the symptoms are serious, they are treatable. Center for Disease Control reports that between one and four million Americans have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and are many of those cannot fully function, are unemployed or on welfare because of it.
Sometimes CFS just appears gradually with no noticeable starting point or identifiable cause. Many more women are diagnosed with CFS than men. Sometimes it comes on after a cold or viral infection or sometimes after a period of heavy stress.
The conventional approach to handling CFS is psychological counseling (It’s all in your head type approach), rehabilitation with physical therapy and exercise. Other professionals like a sleep therapist or dietitian can also be called in. The patient usually has to learn to just live with it once all else has failed to relieve the misery of CFS.
But you don’t have to learn to live with it. The symptoms are not just something you thought up in your mind. A medical doctor trained to work with alternative medicine can find the cause and help you treat CFS. The disease can be reversed and you will get back your vitality and energy. There are ways to produce results – not experimental procedures, but proven therapies.
If you suffer from fibromyalgia or CFS, your diet can make your condition worse or better. Eating a lot of refined carbohydrates will make the condition worse, whereas eating slow-burning carbs (rich in fiber) will provide your body with more energy. If you consume a lot of saturated fats and refined vegetable oils, the pain will worsen. If you consume foods high in omega-3 fatty acids (like fish and flaxseed oil) your pain will lessen. Diet is very important.
Food allergies are often missed as a cause of CFS and fibromyalgia. A competent doctor can evaluate for food allergies.
Natural supplements can also restore the dwindling amounts of seratonin in the brain. Serotonin regulates mood, and a lack of it causes depression. A deficiency can also increase pain sensation. Remedies such as St. John’s wort, SAMe and 5-HTP are much safer and effective at treating depression than Prozac or other anti-depressants, and the natural remedies do not have the harmful side effects as does Prozac. Much solid research has been done to back this up, not to mention the happy patients who applaud the doctors who use them. So if you are suffering from depression, fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue, or any combination of those, there is help for you that really works.
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