Here Are Some Possible Causes
Of Chronic Fatigue

The causes of chronic fatigue (CFS) has confused both doctors and patients. For more than a century, doctors have reported seeing illnesses similar to it.

Health experts have suggested other explanations for this baffling illness such as:

• Iron-poor blood (anemia)
• Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)
• Environmental allergy
• A body wide yeast infection (candidiasis)

Typically CFS follows a viral infection (e.g. cold or viral stomach bug), and is sometimes found after mononucleosis infections. Non-specific symptoms of fatigue, tiredness, exhaustion, and aches make CFS difficult to diagnose and similar to other conditions such as lupus, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia and Lyme disease (among others).

CFS and fibromyalgia share many common characteristics, and may be misdiagnosed as each other, and either condition is often misdiagnosed as depression.

New studies have confirmed the idea that there is no single factor responsible for CFS but that it is caused by a combination of many different factors including:

• immune, nervous and hormonal imbalances
• viral infections
• genetic predisposition
• environmental toxins

There are all considered possible causes of the disorder.

Doctors used to think that the persistent tiredness was once attributed to Epstein-Barr chronic fatigue virus (this virus is responsible for mononucleosis), but the link remains scientifically unproven and is no longer considered a potential cause.

The causes of chronic fatigue can be associated with many symptoms such as:

To learn more about CFS, go to chronic fatigue syndrome.

For some people, constant fatigue can be initiated by a viral infection, head injury, or stress, or can have no associated trigger.

Also some medications including benzodiazapines, beta-blockers, sedatives, antidepressants, and excessive use of antibiotics can cause fatigue.

CFS mainly affects women and is often misdiagnosed as:

• depression
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• fibromyalgia

Gene testing is currently underway to find further medical knowledge about the cause, detection and treatment of CFS. Current therapies offer little relief to symptoms.

Since hormonal imbalances are also considered a possible cause of CFS, recent research has focused on abnormalities in the levels of certain hormones, specifically cortisol (the stress hormone) and the female sex hormones.

Physical or emotional stress seems to make CFS worse.

However, further research is needed to figure out its causes and to better understand this puzzling condition.

I have my own theory as the the causes of CFS. I believe that the current stress and worry of our daily lives regarding the economy, the failing environment, our health, our jobs and our children have caused enormous effects on our physical bodies.

For many, it is difficult to think only of today when there is so much uncertainty about tomorrow.

I believe that this is the important test for all of us, in spite of the tremendous odds, to work on ourselves and to give our minds and bodies the care and rest that we need.

Read what God says about chronic fatigue syndrome treatment

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