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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Prior post: Always Tired: Chronic Fatigue Steals Your Life

People Who Wake Up Tired Need to Find Out Why

If you wake up tired every day despite going to bed at a reasonable hour and spending the appropriate amount of time sleeping then you owe it to yourself to get checked out to find out why. You should not wake up tired in the morning and think, "this is normal" - because it is not normal to be tired after 8 hours sleep.

If you find that you feel like a truck has run over you in the morning, or you need several cups of coffee in the morning just to feel "awake" then maybe it's time to start asking your doctor some tough questions such as, "Why am I always tired? Why do I wake up tired in the morning?" Your doctor should either be referring you to a specialist or talking to you about chronic fatigue syndrome.

Wake Up Tired? Lack of Energy Shouldn't Ruin Your Life
By Jane P Lass

There are lots of reasons people wake up tired. While many people do live life in the fast lane some do not, yet the still wake up tired like the type A personality people. What is different about someone suffering from a lack of energy? Why do I wake up tired when I know I should be fine?

There are many possible causes for someone to feel tired frequently, but given the lives we all lead it can be an impossible task for your doctor to sort out what may be causing your particular symptoms. Could it be that you have allergies causing sleep problems? Maybe you have an issue with sleep apnea? Could it be stress related? There are just too many things going on in our lives to know for certain without exhaustive research into the root causes. Asking our doctors to know our lives in that great detail is really no longer an option.

In my own case I'd suffered so long I just couldn't stand it anymore. I new I wasn't the state champion performer I used to be and I did not want to continue going through life as a zombie. It was time to get some answers and make some changes. Life was so listless I was ready to do just about anything to get my energy levels back where they used to be.

I didn't want to wake up tired anymore. I didn't want to miss out on parties and gatherings for lack of energy ever again. Most of all...I did not want to dread getting out of bed every day.

That is why read everything about people who wake up tired. Reading their stories helped me decide not to wake up tired anymore. I got help.

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

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I Didn't Want to Wake Up Tired Anymore

Every day I would wake up tired. I couldn't avoid it. It didn't matter if I went to bed early or late, it was a given I would open my eyes in the morning feeling like I had a mild hangover. As you can imagine, that was no way to start the day - and yet that is exactly how every day started for me.

I Wasn't A Morning Person... But Suddenly Not An Evening Person Either?
Waking up tired day after day made me convinced I just wasn't a morning person, which some people aren't. When I started coming home after regular work days feeling like I suddenly wasn't feeling much like an evening person either... I started to wonder what the heck was going wrong.

Fatigue Is A Grinding, Insidious Disease
Before long I was dropping out... of life. On the rare occasion when I did see friends they'd always joke that I'd dropped off the face of the Earth. It wasn't all that far from the truth. I'd stopped going out, I didn't participate in any team sports any more, and I'd even stopped running, which I'd been doing from the time I was five years old. How does someone go from being a star athlete with unbounded energy to a person who'd wake up tired everyday and not want to ever get out of bed?

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Was The Cause Of My Problems
I finally got fed up. I just didn't want to wake up tired anymore and I was sick of one doctor after another telling me I had a minor viral infection. My reponse finally became, "NO KIDDING! I am ALWAYS feeling like I have a virus infection! Seriously, I can't be THIS unlucky - if my immune system was that week I'd be dead already!" I guess throwing a nutty woke up my doctor. He said that persons who wake up tired may be suffering other symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome.

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.