What Is It Like For Those Who Suffer From Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?A common complaint from people who have been diagnosed with having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is an overwhelming and extreme fatigue. A fatigue that is not associated with a busy day at the office or from running a 10-mile marathon. This is a fatigue that can be felt upon waking; a fatigue that has nothing to do with physical activity. The fatigue can keep you from living a normal, active life. It can even interfere with normal activities like getting dressed, making meals, or being able to function at work or school.
Another common symptom of CFS is memory loss. This can be especially devastating for young college aged students who rely on remembering what they have read or heard in class in order to do well on tests and receive good grades. Think of all the things you do each day that require your ability to remember - things like where you put your car keys, heck how about where you parked your car? Every day we rely on our memory to complete tasks like picking up kids from after school activities, making purchases, completing assignments at the office. Most of us take for granted having the ability to remember to do these things that require memory. A person with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome who is suffering from short term memory loss cannot do even simple tasks that require the ability to remember instructions, events, assignments or things they have heard or read. Often times the ability to concentrate is also decreased adding to the problem of short term memory loss. Those patients who have had brain scans have often been told that they have lowered blood flow to the brain; which could explain the concentration problems and memory issues.
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