Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – CFS – is often diagnosed by exclusion. What that means is that diagnosis is reached in the absence of one definite cause being revealed by standard medical tests or examinations.
This can be incredibly frustrating for sufferers, who find themselves living with the dilemma of feeling exhausted and ill from something that can’t be found. The stigma often attached to illness without an obvious pathogenic origin only adds to the suffering of a human being already in a perplexed and uncomfortable state.
What would really help, would be for the medical profession to get it that just because they can’t find something, doesn’t mean it’s not there!
In the UK, only 10-30% of GPs acknowledge that ME exists. Some documented comments from unsympathetic doctor’s include ME being called the “malingerer’s meal ticket” or the fabrication of middle class women who “have nothing better to worry about”.
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