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How do I know if I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / M.E.?
What signs or symptoms may make you suspect you may have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / M.E.. People who have experience in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / M.E. offer advice of what things may make you suspicious and which doctor you should go to to receive treatment
Extreme tiredness and flu like symptoms for more than 6 months without a known cause.
Posted Aug 27, 2017 by Emy 2050
Post exertional malaise, poor, unrefreshing sleep, swollen glands, fatigue of unknown cause, all of a sudden onset with a viral flu-like infection beforehand.
Posted Sep 5, 2017 by Shirley 2050
It took 20 months of many doctors and mis diagnoses before I was finally diagnosed by an experienced cardiologist at a women's center.
Posted Sep 10, 2017 by Sharon 1500
Difficult one for me to answer
But a doctor or specialist like endocrinologist neurologist
But a doctor or specialist like endocrinologist neurologist
Posted Jan 17, 2018 by Annette 2500
If your life has been completely changed suddenly, if you sleep constantly or not at all, if someone asks you how you are and you wonder whether the pain you now feel is going to be gone by the time you answer and another one took its place... and in any case you know you are not just 'tired'... or if you had the flu and it lingers on without stopping... have all other diseases eliminated, go to an ME-CFS clinic to be seen by a real specialist to be sure. I would not skimp on this step.
Posted Mar 2, 2018 by Beti 2700
Visit your primary care doctor or a rheumatologist that will not brush your symptoms aside.
Posted Aug 9, 2018 by cathy 2500
Neurological and immune issues that are new and scary
a really long course of flu or mono that leaves you less able afterwards
the inability to stay in an upright position without edema
pallor
red crescents on tonsils
dropping things, unrestful sleep at night
migraines
a Dx of Fibro
strange and frequent infections
lack of former stamina
[this is all different in pediatric ME]
Go to your GP and keep a symptom diary between visits
ask for a referral to a neurologist and and immunologist
a really long course of flu or mono that leaves you less able afterwards
the inability to stay in an upright position without edema
pallor
red crescents on tonsils
dropping things, unrestful sleep at night
migraines
a Dx of Fibro
strange and frequent infections
lack of former stamina
[this is all different in pediatric ME]
Go to your GP and keep a symptom diary between visits
ask for a referral to a neurologist and and immunologist
Posted Apr 6, 2019 by Fadra 2550
You have had unexplained flu-like symptoms that won't go away, and/or have progressed into more bizarre symptoms.
Posted Dec 12, 2019 by Joanna 6200
Look at the symptoms in the IC Primer and then take that to your doctor. Here is the link https://www.me-international.org/understanding-criteria.html
Posted Dec 21, 2019 by Pam 3550
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If you can't do the same you did yesterday, if you bothered by noises, certain smells, headaches, blurred vision, not able to think, memory problems, it is necessary to pass by the doctor.
Posted Sep 11, 2017 by Eduardo Casasnovas 2950
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You will be sitting up or lying even though you have to do something very important, you don't have strength, you will have weakness.
Posted Sep 11, 2017 by Haydee de bielik 5120
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If I have a persistent fatigue that keeps me from doing a normal life I already have which you suspect of suffering from CFS / me.
Are attached to cognitive disorders and memory.
Sleep disorders repeated.
All for more than 6 months.
...and many other symptoms more.
I consulted two neurologos, and a family physician.
The SPECT was the exam more relevant.
Are attached to cognitive disorders and memory.
Sleep disorders repeated.
All for more than 6 months.
...and many other symptoms more.
I consulted two neurologos, and a family physician.
The SPECT was the exam more relevant.
Posted Oct 19, 2017 by Heidrun Kroner 2000
