Chronic Fatigue - Terri

November 21, 2005

Hi Terri & Everyone,

I was wondering if you might share what worked for you in curing your CFS.

I don't have as severe symptoms as you described but do notice the deep

fatigue, dry skin, forgetfulness, disturbed sleep, weight gain etc., some of

which I attribute to hypothyroid. What started you turning this thing

around?

Thanks much,

Shelley in Alberta

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Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:39:47 -0600

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Re: Early onset alzheimers/dementia--warning, long post!

I just mentioned in a previous post that I was ill with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome (CFS) for 11 years. MUCH of what you describe your partner

experiencing is consistent with CFS: headaches, nausea, memory and

cognition difficulties, speech difficulties. I even experienced thinning

hair, cracking cuticles and dry skin. In addition, there was bone-deep

exhaustion, transitory muscle and joint pain, dizziness, sore throats,

swollen glands, low-grade fevers, massive swings in my sleep cycle (from

insomnia to hypersomnia). But not every person with CFS experiences every

one of these symptoms. And not everyone experiencing these symptoms has

CFS. It's just something for you to investigate.

I will tell you that when I was first ill, my test results came back normal,

normal, normal. My doctor would say stuff like, you're so healthy it's

disgusting (attempting to make a joke). My response was, then why do I feel

so sick?

As bad as the exhaustion was, I think the memory and cognition problems were

the worst. Until I found out that they are very common for people with CFS,

I thought I was losing my mind. I would be in a store, and suddenly not

know where I was. It wasn't that I didn't know which store I was in. I

didn't know which CITY I was in...or even which STATE! I eventually stopped

driving for awhile because of the memory problems. It would start with me

just suddenly not knowing where I was or where I was going. It got so bad

that I would sometimes pull out onto a highway, and I wouldn't be able to

remember if I had looked for traffic. It was terrifying. We finally

decided that I just wasn't safe to drive.

But it's a close tie with the speech problems. It's so frustrating to know

what you want to say, but to be unable to form the words. Or to get the

words half out, then have no idea what you were trying to say. Or even

worse, to get the words out only to find out that the wrong words came out.

Thanksfully, my family handled this with a good sense of humor. The day I

handed a book to my daughter and told her to put it in the " oven " (I was

thinking " bookcase " ) is a day we laugh about frequently. It was

frustrating, but a sense of humor helped.

I'm SO glad those days are over!

Terri

November 21, 2005

Terri,

I too, would like to hear what you did to treat CFS. I have been going through much of the same thing for 3 years and each doctor tells me they can do nothing for me. It's all so frustrating. So, I've decided to start researching and taking things into my own hands.

TIA,

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