Do I Have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Take a Quiz and Find Out

If you're wondering, "Do I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?" why don't you fill out some simple information, take a short quiz and find out how your symptoms score relative to other patients who have been diagnosed to have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The quiz is short, only takes a few seconds, and doing the quiz entitles you to receive a free e-book on the expanding knowledge-base on chronic fatigue and pain related diseases.

Have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Get Diagnosed and Get Your Life Back
By Jane P Lass

Do I have chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)? Thousands of people are asking themselves that every day, and for some of them the answer is yes. Sufferers of CFS routinely go undiagnosed and therefore untreated - or worse - mis-diagnosed and mis-treated. Many of the symptoms of CFS can easily be mistaken for other more commonly diagnosed illnesses such as the flu, viral infections, or stress. Where many doctors fail in their diagnosis of this disease is the chronic (long term) element of the pervasive symptoms associated with the other illnesses... in other words - they fail to notice that you're visiting their office more than other patients.

Ask Questions About Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
If you think this could be happening to you one of the important questions you can ask your doctor is simply, "Do I have chronic fatigue syndrome?" Putting the question in your doctor's mind will force him or her to more carefully review your file for the frequency of visits and types of symptoms. What symptoms will your doctor be on the lookout for? It's unlikely that they will have adequately recorded the chronic nature of the important symptoms in your medical file. This is because medical databases in the past were limited and recorded your basic information and perhaps diagnoses but not necessarily symptoms. Expanded medical information databases are new and getting much better with regard to recording symptoms and not simply diagnoses.

Your Doctor May Not See the Forest Through the Trees
What this means is that until your medical symptoms history gets long enough for your doctor to be able to see and diagnose long term (chronic) symptoms like those associated with chronic fatigue syndrome, you're going to have to be your own best source of information for your doctor. Ask yourself, "Do I have chronic fatigue syndrome?"

If any of these symptoms are recurring it is important to keep pressing or ask a trained professional, "Do I have chronic fatigue syndrome?" Only a specialist who can properly diagnose your condition can recommend the right chronic fatigue remedy or treatments for your unique condition.

I hope you start feeling better soon.
Jane P. Lass

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Always Tired? Welcome to My (Former) World

Always Tired - Lack of Energy
I can't begin to tell you what being always tired felt like. It would start in the morning when I would wake up tired and continue throughout the day. Honestly I'd wake up feeling like someone had punched me in the face every morning. Not the best way to start the day.

Aching Joints
Then the minute I got dressed after showering, I'd have a generally tired, lack of energy kind feeling. I'd get out to the car and head off to work but with the modestly long car ride my joints would ache before I'd get to work. It was just simply a miserable way to live. Being constantly tired is no way to live.

I'm Not the Only One Suffering
I finally caught a break when someone mentioned they had seen something about people who were always tired with achy joints so after poking around on the web I found some information about chronic fatigue sufferers. Apparently lots of people get tired all the time like me.

Symptoms Quiz Helped My Doctor Diagnose Me
I took a short quiz on the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome to determine whether I had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I benefitted by reviewing the information because next time I met with my doctor I was much more forceful about telling him something was wrong. A visit with an ENT specialist determined my tonsils were constantly infected, and needed to come out (it was painful.. let me tell you but soooo worth it).

Afterward
After the pain from the surgery disappeared I am feeling so much better and I'm much more active now than I have been in years.

Take the Quiz
You may or may not have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but take the fatigue quiz anyway... the information you learn may help you next time you see your doctor.