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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Fatigue Symptom Checklist - What Ails YOU??

If you run through this fatigue symptom checklist and find that one or more of these symptoms apply to you then I would strongly suggest you visit our website and sign up for our free e-book on the causes, symptoms, and treatments of chronic fatigue. You may discover you don't have chronic fatigue syndrome but keep the free e-book as a gift.

There is a considerable amount of good information on both the difficulties in diagnosing fatigue and the types and combinations of treatments available. Again, the e-book is free just for visiting and signing in.

Fatigue Symptom Checklist - Do Any of These Symptoms Apply to You?
By Jane P Lass

People who are tired a lot are always asking me about making a chronic fatigue symptom checklist, and honestly I've gotten so many requests for one that I'm simply going to have to comply. For those of you who may be experiencing real, continuous fatigue for the first time let me introduce you to a new term: chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). This illness is being diagnosed more and more frequently in the United States. Sadly this debilitating condition often goes mis-diagnosed for years or even decades due to its relatively common symptoms. Only a trained physician with a long and carefully recorded patient history has any real chance at making a proper assessment of a patient with this condition.

What common symptoms might I be talking about? Well that's where this chronic fatigue symptom checklist I'm supposed to put together for you should answer some questions. When you've had a chance to look at the chronic fatigue symptom checklist you'd be well advised to think about how the symptoms on it relate not only to your present feeling of general tired-ness, but also your longer-term history of illness and general activity level. Think about how your life has played out relative to your peers. Do they have less frequent occurrances of the symptoms on the chronic fatigue symptom checklist? Without further adieu, here are some of the symptoms associated with CFS.

Potential Symptoms May Include:

• Extreme tiredness without known cause
• Reduced productivity and or desire to 'live life fully'
• Consistent sore or irritated throat
• Short term memory problems
• Joint and or muscle pain without cause
• Waking up after sleep feeling more tired than you went to bed
• Constant low grade fever and/or headaches

If any of these symptoms are recurring it is important to see chronic fatigue syndrome doctors who can properly diagnose your symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome and get them treated.

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

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