“I believe that “chronic fatigue syndrome”, which was a popular one in the late 80’s/early 90’s is a joke now. It seems doctors don’t buy that one anymore as a good excuse for disability. But i could be wrong. It’s just that i don’t hear people claiming to have it anymore like i did then.”
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I think it is more often referred to as “fibromyalgia” now and it seems to be a real disorder, some people have problems that seem laughable to those not suffering from them. I know that I have walked around for months at a time in the past with agonizing back pain and now I have very little problem with it even though I am much older. I am able to lift weights at age 63 that would have been unthinkable for me 20 years ago. What made the difference? I can only speculate.
Are you sure that fibromyalgia is the same as chronic fatigue syndrome? Chronic fatigue syndrome was just being tired all the time. There were no other symptoms. Now maybe since then they’ve wrapped it up under the fibromyalgia umbrella. But it sounds like there’s a lot more there there with fibromyalgia.