sorry for the grouchy response.
those 300k soldiers with TBI get a lot of the same CFS symptoms too. I talk with them on the boards and am a big supporter.
Perhaps what happens in the gut affects the brain OR the fact that the gut has been called the largest Nervous System after the brain would explain why the effects are similar.
Please tell me you’re a guy and I didn’t get grouchy with a lady, at least. I’ll hate myself the rest of the day.
It SUCKS, doesn’t it?! Sorry you have it.
Every symptom I have i find on CFS list. Rheumo told me i have it. I can’t believe that as they ALL started after TBI. I dont know what to think lol
Yes, I am a geezer guy!
Below is a link to an article with the newest improved NIH def of ME/CFS, but main thing is whether or not you have “post-exertional malaise” which means crushing debilitation after you exercise even a little bit.
In this article a new name was suggested which has since been dropped and we are still stuck with ME/CFS since fractious sufferers still couldn’t agree on a new name, but the main thing is that MD’s have now been instructed by the US Gov’t to stop telling patients that this disease is psychological!
On the basis of this article alone my own frickin’ PCP stopped telling me it was all in my head. I had to drive across the state to NOVA U. to get treatment!