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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or CFS, formerly called Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome or CFIDS-A Silent Epidemic?
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“I feel tired all the time”
- More and more we hear people saying, ” I feel tired all the time”. No wonder that more and more products have been flooding the stores being marketed as “energy drinks” or “energy boosters”or more specifically “natural energy boosters”. But with so many to choose from, how can you tell which one is most suited for you?
- This website was created to help the reader choose wisely. The choice will largely depend on what the underlying cause or causes of your fatigue are. Your other symptoms, the treatments you have tried and are currently taking all need to be taken into consideration as well. In other words not just any energy booster will do in most cases.
- The incidence or prevalence of fatigue in general have been growing at an alarming rate for various reasons like: sleep deprivation which may or may not be related to workaholism; unhealthy lifestyle; poor nutrition;aging babyboomers; preservatives and other pollutants in food , air and water; stress level that is on an all time high…
- As more and more people tend to ignore the problem, health care practitioners have consequently been seeing a growing number of patients or clients complaining of unrelenting fatigue. According to CDC, in USA approximately 1 million people have CFS; around 8 million have Fibromyalgia and tens of millions more have fatiguing illnesses who may not necessarily meet the criteria for diagnosis of CFS but are as functionally impaired, nonetheless.
I have observed in my clinical practice as a psychiatrist that depressed patients with chronic fatigue issues tend to be treatment refractory, which means that they tend to fail three or more trial of antidepressants.
- For a number of reasons, which I have discussed elsewhere, I have done extensive research on the subject of fatigue for more than a decade now. Things I have learned have definitely helped me and my family who have suffered from varying degrees of fatigue. A loved one with CFS who was misdiagnosed as having emotional problems recovered completely after undergoing comprehensive treatment for CFS.
- My patients have also benefited immensely from my research. Fatigue is actually a symptom of many of psychiatric conditions. In my work as a psychiatrist, I have treated thousands of patients who were complaining of “feeling tired all the time”. Lately, as I began to incorporate many of the natural energy boosters that I learned about in my patients’ treatment, I have noted a definite pattern of relatively quicker recovery with many more patients reporting close to full if not complete recovery.
- I have worked with the same national organization for more than fifteen years now; and n the course of my working with this company, I had the privilege of being part of the Day Program treatment team that took care of very depressed patients many of whom came from distant states and a few from other countries.
- Most of the patients we admitted there presented with history of so called “treatment refractory” depression meaning depression that did not respond or did not recover considerably after trials of more than three antidepressants;either singly or in different combinations. Invariably those patients reported fatigue as being one of their top three most disabling symptoms.
- It is noteworthy that In many of those cases, adding natural energy boosters to the standard FDA approved treatments helped tremendously. Needless to say, I have really come to appreciate the value of integrating standard treatments with natural remedies as long as the latter have been shown by evidence-based studies to be safe and effective.
- I used to be a very traditional or conventional psychiatrist; not anymore. Not to say that I provide all the alternative treatments myself because I do refer them to those who are qualified to administer many of the treatments. I mostly handle the standard treatments in compliance with my state’s licensing board’s requirement and do not manage those who are not taking psychotropics.
- While it has been so rewarding and fulfilling to have helped the Chronic Fatigue sufferers (many with CFS or Fibromyalgia or both) who crossed my path, I knew I could do more. Especially after I found out that Chronic Fatigue maybe a “Hidden or Silent Epidemic”?.According to CDC out the millions who are afflicted with CFS, only 20% are being diagnosed while the rest are trapped in that “CYCLE OF FRUSTRATION” Moreover, subsyndromal CFS was reported to be just as debilitating. Indeed many holistic practitioners treat patients even if they did not meet the full criteria for diagnosis. Read more…
THERE IS A WAY OUT OF THAT CYCLE OF FRUSTRATION
- Through this website, I hope to reach out to the millions of Chronic Fatigue sufferers around the world. Know that there are evidence-based safe and effective natural energy boosters out there.
- To download CFS diagnostic resources from the CDC website keep reading.
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