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.
People recover from flu in days or weeks. But with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) recovery is rare. The symptoms are similar to flu, and a tiredness that never improves no matter how much sleep a person gets. It can worsen with mental or physical exercise. Sometimes the symptoms come and go with no regular pattern.
According to Center for Disease Control (CDC) between one and four million Americans suffer from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). They are seriously impaired, at least a quarter are unemployed or on disability because of CFS. Forty percent of people in the general population who report symptoms of CFS have a serious, treatable, previously unrecognized medical condition.
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.
Doctors have previously been ineffective in handling CFS and wind up telling the patient they must learn to live with it. The consideration was that it was all in the patient’s head and psychological counseling was recommended. Sometimes an exercise therapist or dietitian was called in, or perhaps a sleep therapist. All to no avail.
However, there are ways to handle this disease that can actually bring about results. You don’t have to learn to live with it. The pain, fatigue and depression are not all in your head. They have an underlying cause and a medical doctor trained in this discipline can help you identify and treat CFS. Your condition can be reversed and your energy and vitality restored.
A very important factor in treating both fibromyalgia and CFS is diet. You can eat foods that alleviate pain and depression or you can eat foods that exacerbate pain and depression. Eating refined carbohydrates will worsen both conditions, and eating slow-burning carbohydrates high in fiber will improve it. Pain is increased when consuming saturated fats and refined vegetable oils, and decreased when consuming omega-3 fatty acids instead. How you feel is very much related to what you eat.
A lot of people have allergies to particular foods and they do not realize these allergies exist. A competent medical doctor trained in this area can determine allergies. Frequently food allergies are the cause of pain and tiredness.
Depression can accompany CFS and figromyalgia. Low levels of a neuro-transmitter, serotonin if often a cause, because this substance in the brain regulates sleep and contributes to the persons mood. Lack of it increases pain. There are supplements that can be prescribed to alleviate pain, regulate mood and ward off depression – such as St. John’s wort, SAMe, natural replacement seratonin and 5-HTP. Whereas Prozac and other prescription drugs merely mask symptoms and come with dangerous side effects, natural remedies do not. Many happier patients will attest to this fact.
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