Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on May 12, 2009.
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Anyone who copes with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) or Fibromyalgia (FM) knows there are people out there with all sorts of theories about what’s wrong with them. We’ve heard it all: You’re just depressed. If you’d exercise more, you’d feel better. The insulting “it’s all in your head.” And on and on.
The worst insult is probably: Everybody gets tired.
We know that! Before we got sick, we just got tired, too. But this fatigue is far beyond anything I (or most of the rest of us) would wish on anyone. If you can imagine how you feel on the worst day of having the flu, you can imagine how somebody with CFS feels on a good day.
That’s why it took me more than two months before I could get past the opening line to read the article I’m about to recommend.
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on September 26, 2007.
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Diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) at age 9, Casey Fero’s short life was one plagued with headaches, cognitive difficulties, muscle weakness, exhaustion, and other problems associated with that condition. Despite such struggles, his mother — Pat Fero, who was diagnosed with CFS prior to Casey’s birth and is President of the Wisconsin CFS Association — recently told the CFSAC (The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) that Casey had just completed two years of community college, had a summer job, and was looking forward to beginning courses at the University of Wisconsin. Sadly, that was not to be.
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on October 10, 2005.
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In Dr. Lapp’s words:
This Cochrane review study is a sore subject!
I obtained a copy of the entire review, and it is just horrible. The author examined 9 studies, accepted only 5, and none were from the USA. Here are some of the problems:
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on October 1, 2005.
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The thought of a drug company proposing “the right dose of the right drug to the right patient at the right time” isn’t what one is used to hearing in this age of blockbuster drugs, but in a speech to shareholders in April that’s what Eli Lilly’s Sidney Taurel proposed as the company’s new “model.” Lilly, which created one of the biggest blockbuster drugs of all time — Prozac, sees research and drug development taking a new direction.
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on August 15, 2005.
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New Study Shows Promise that Skin Tests May Be Able to Provide a Definitive Diagnosis for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
A new study provides the hope of finding a way to distinguish between what is often the subject of confusion and diagnosis: the devastating “chronic fatigue” that accompanies the baffling and disabling disease called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and the “chronic fatigue” associated with depression.
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A professional writer since 1984, Pamela Rice Hahn is the author of more than 20 published books.