I know in my case that it was definately a physical thing. After being neglected and wrongly treated (antibiotics for everything)by my MD I found a naturopath that cleaned me up.
I'm back to my old self through a natural nutritional approach and getting the flora of my digestive track alive and doing its job again.
Of course the MD thinks I'm a whack job for going to a naturopath & chiropractor....
Job security.
Oh, its real all right. Took years to abate, by fits and starts. And, from what I've heard, I had a mild to moderate case.
Congratulations on your recovery. Hopefully others can benefit from what you've learned.
A close friend of mine had chronic fatigue at age 28-30 after a case of mononeucleosis - couldn't get well for two years - doctors scoffed - she finally put herself on a strict nutritional diet with lots of red and green leafy vegetables, lean meat and fish, blueberries and strawberries, no soda, salt, pepper or junk food, and multivitamins. She was better in 3 to 4 months.
We know a very young man who is just graduating med school in Wales this month. His problems came as a result of a medication prescribed for him by an MD.
He has lost all of his twenties to this thing and he isn't through it yet but at least he has seen a little light. Is going to an homeopath who is willing to research and discover. Inch by inch some of the fatigue has left although he recently had a bad spell with the jaundice and no strength.
He knows many others with the same sorts of symptoms and this has taught him to listen and to hear. He is going to make one whale of a doctor because he is both brilliant and has comprehension that you can look fine and have almost no ability to function.
Since he has met others who were just as malaffected by the medication he has also forced the producing corporate entity to put a warning on the medication. Want to bet that the MD's will ignore it and tie more people to the same problems? One wonders whether there are umpty Americans who have varying degrees of the same symptoms as a result of having been given the same prescription medication for something that isn't as bad as the result that the medication wrought.
Our trouble is that MDs are not educated these days, they are largely only taught how to push pills. Especially in the US where Big Pharma rules all the laws and the health care system.
The symptom cannot become the disease unless we are willing to personalize illness.
"Of course the MD thinks I'm a whack job for going to a naturopath & chiropractor...."
I got the same thing from them when I was ill several years ago. It's like you talk and they just ignore you.
If a doctor doesn't understand your condition:
a. It doesn't exist
b. You're crazy