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A stomachache is hardly the same as years of debilitating pain and fatigue. One might think a chronic condition that presents consistently enough in type of sym
by cestith 9y ago
A stomachache is hardly the same as years of debilitating pain and fatigue. One might think a chronic condition that presents consistently enough in type of symptoms across more than a million patients may be worth considering as possibly physiological in nature. Certainly this team at Stanford believed so.
The symptoms of this syndrome include pain, dizziness, and headache so that's three of the four you mentioned. The very story is about how this syndrome is often not diagnosed properly. That means that some portion of MUPS may be explained with the tests the team at Stanford is developing.
Just dismissing it because there's not yet a great test is the problem they're trying to solve.
- bogidon 9y agoThe commenter to which I replied seemed to be extrapolating the idea past Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to all cases where patients are not successfully diagnosed for reported pain. Thus my argument was not specific to CFS. I agree that it seems unlikely for years of fatigue to be psychosomatic, but we won't know the numbers until there is a test.