[Revolting cat!]

I’m so tired of hearing about it!

[RightWhale]

What about chronic imbecility? Is that a virus or just DNA?

[dakine]

Syndrome: A distinctive or characteristic pattern of behavior...

...or other abnormal condition.

i.e.: lazy...

[TexasCajun]

"I've got CFS, catch your own damn mouse! "

[Axenolith]

“People with C.F.S. are as sick and as functionally impaired as someone with AIDS, with breast cancer, with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,” said Dr. William Reeves, the lead expert on the illness at the C.D.C., who helped expose the centers’ misuse of chronic fatigue financing.

How did we make it past the steam age into the 20th century???

[the OlLine Rebel]

Now if only they’d spend more time investigating and researching all the GI issues. Talk about debilitating misery.

[Camachee]

Some scientists and many patients remain highly critical of the C.D.C.’s record on chronic fatigue syndrome, or C.F.S. But nearly everyone now agrees that the syndrome is real.

The same people who agree on global warming, I assume. sheesh.

[Jeff Chandler]

Yes, coffee. Those folks need coffee.

[Scythian]

What idiots, CFS is mostly due to parasites, but American coctors no nothing of them ‘cause the west doesn’t have parasites’ LOL. Parasites come in all forms, protozoa, and other categories most do not even know exist. They deny Morgellons exists too, despite proof positive it does ...

[wideminded]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which in 1999 acknowledged that it had diverted millions of dollars allocated by Congress for chronic fatigue syndrome research to other programs, has released studies that linked the condition to genetic mutations and abnormalities in gene expression involved in key physiological processes.

I read an account once of how a team from CDC had been flying out to the location of the first major CFS outbreak and they were planning on the plane, before they had even examined a single patient, how they were going to announce that it was an imaginary illness.

[finnman69]

Solution

[twigs]

I’ve known two people with CFS and both were highly motived, well educated people who are not the typical people you hear about with this. I’m convinced that there is something to it. One of them just died this spring with skin cancer. It wasn’t the cancer that caused the CFS; the cancer came later. But it leads me that think that some people are predisposed to certain type of illnesses and get something that they can’t easily diagnose. The gentleman who died lived out his live in a great deal of pain, but continued to work, support his family and love life.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

My wife has come down with a form of C.F.S., but she calls it pregnancy!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I’ve been tired for 50 years, just had to work on through it.

[ConservaTexan]

One more made up illness to create demand for a pill to treat it.

[RockinRight]

I’d reply, but I’m too damn tired.

[Plutarch]

It is a "disease" that for some reason afflicts predominantly WWWW's.

(Whiney Wide White Women)

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I thought the title said “Clinton Fatigue”.

[Fawnn]

Typical: The NYT gets it wrong.

The article is about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The headline refers to “chronic fatigue.” Two separate and distinct diagnoses.

[hinckley buzzard]

Six months after starting treatment, Ms. Flowers said, she was able to go snowboarding and take yoga and ballet classes. “Now I pace myself, but I’m probably 75 percent of normal,” she said.

We'll know she's "100% of normal" when she knocks off the yuppie crapola and goes back to work.