Suffer From Chronic Pain, Depression And Illness?

December 28th, 2009 Posted in Depression

People who were happy, healthy and vital experience chronic symptoms that put an end to their activity. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome seems to take all your energy away and it often lasts for years.

People recover from flu in days or weeks. But with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) recovery is rare. The symptoms are similar to flu, and a tiredness that never improves no matter how much sleep a person gets. It can worsen with mental or physical exercise. Sometimes the symptoms come and go with no regular pattern.

Many people suffer from chronic symptoms that have no real medical handling in traditional medicine. Although the symptoms are serious, they are treatable. Center for Disease Control reports that between one and four million Americans have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and are many of those cannot fully function, are unemployed or on welfare because of it.

Chronic fatigue syndrome may precipitate after an infection, such as a cold or viral illness or after a time of great stress. It can also come on gradually without a clear starting point or obvious cause. Women are diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome far more often than men are.

Doctors have previously been ineffective in handling CFS and wind up telling the patient they must learn to live with it. The consideration was that it was all in the patient\’s head and psychological counseling was recommended. Sometimes an exercise therapist or dietitian was called in, or perhaps a sleep therapist. All to no avail.

However, there are ways to handle this disease that can actually bring about results. You don\’t have to learn to live with it. The pain, fatigue and depression are not all in your head. They have an underlying cause and a medical doctor trained in this discipline can help you identify and treat CFS. Your condition can be reversed and your energy and vitality restored.

A very important factor in treating both fibromyalgia and CFS is diet. You can eat foods that alleviate pain and depression or you can eat foods that exacerbate pain and depression. Eating refined carbohydrates will worsen both conditions, and eating slow-burning carbohydrates high in fiber will improve it. Pain is increased when consuming saturated fats and refined vegetable oils, and decreased when consuming omega-3 faty acids instead. How you feel is very much related to what you eat.

Food allergies are often missed as a cause of CFS and fibromyalgia. A competent doctor can evaluate for food allergies.

Depression can accompany CFS and figromyalgia. Low levels of a neuro-transmitter, serotonin if often a cause, because this substance in the brain regulates sleep and contributes to the persons mood. Lack of it increases pain. There are supplements that can be prescribed to alleviate pain, regulate mood and ward off depression – such as St. John\’s wort, SAMe, natural replacement seratonin and 5-HTP. Whereas Prozac and other prescription drugs merely mask symptoms and come with dangerous side effects, natural remedies do not. Many happier patients will attest to this fact.

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