“I am a person suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome and I am appalled that it has been given such a trivial name. Here is a disease that totally disables most of its victims; a disease that causes balance disorders, resulting in some of us requiring wheelchairs, cognitive disorders that leave us unable to perform formerly simple mental tasks, and immune disorders that lay us open to multiple infections and to autoimmune problems. And all the medical profession can come up with to define this syndrome to the general population is "fatigue!” FatigueChronic IllnessChronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe Cfs Author:Jane Cuozzo
“The disabling weakness and exhaustion a person with ME/CFS experiences is so profound that "fatigue" is ...probably an insult.” Chronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe Cfs Author:Jane Cuozzo
“Now, at last, medicine has decided to recognize our problem. This is a tremendous beginning, but by defining Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to the public with such a benign name, a name that gets confused with simple (often stress-related) fatigue, you have placed yet another burden on us.” FatigueChronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe CfsChronic Fatigue Author:Jane Cuozzo