Does anyone ever recover to any degree? I worked with two people w/CFS, and they became shadows of their former selves. I lost track of them, so I never found out if they felt better as time went on.
I’m better now than I was when I had to quit work in 1998, but I will never again recover enough to be worth a hill of beans. I’m constantly in relapses and remissions, and even the remissions have small relapses. Some people recover enough to work part-time, but so much pressure was put on me in the workplace (they wanted me out but couldn’t fire me) that I ended up in therapy twice a week for three years.
I have to be very careful when I feel good because I have a tendency to over-do it, which puts me into another relapse.
Danged if I do, and danged if I don’t.