virgo
06-21-2007, 11:22 AM
Maybe this (http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007706210303) is why I am always so darn tired. (Or maybe it's my 5-year-old) I can't believe there is a name for it, though!
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BY DARLA CARTER
A sharp student-athlete with a head for figures and a passion for playing tennis who loses the ability to understand math and the energy to get out of bed.
A grandmother who can't walk around the block with her 5-year-old grandson without feeling wiped out -- 24 years after first being struck with pain, confusion and disabling fatigue as a graduate student at Howard University.
These are both examples of people with chronic fatigue syndrome, a debilitating but nonfatal illness that affects at least 1 million Americans.
It's four times more common in women than in men, but it can affect any gender or race. Though more common in people ages 40 to 59, it also strikes teens like Andrew Peak, 18, of Jeffersontown, who struggled with CFS in high school.
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BY DARLA CARTER
A sharp student-athlete with a head for figures and a passion for playing tennis who loses the ability to understand math and the energy to get out of bed.
A grandmother who can't walk around the block with her 5-year-old grandson without feeling wiped out -- 24 years after first being struck with pain, confusion and disabling fatigue as a graduate student at Howard University.
These are both examples of people with chronic fatigue syndrome, a debilitating but nonfatal illness that affects at least 1 million Americans.
It's four times more common in women than in men, but it can affect any gender or race. Though more common in people ages 40 to 59, it also strikes teens like Andrew Peak, 18, of Jeffersontown, who struggled with CFS in high school.
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