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That doesn't sound like CFS though. If you have CFS, working for a few hours or jogging for a few mins, leaves you in pain and fatigue for weeks. Chronic Fatig

That doesn't sound like CFS though. If you have CFS, working for a few hours or jogging for a few mins, leaves you in pain and fatigue for weeks. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is also a very bad name, because many patients don't have fatigue, but they have very high exercise intolerance (jogging for a few mins leaves you bedridden). That's why the current discussion is to rename it to S.E.I.D (Systemic Exercise Intolerance Disease). Yours sounds like a mild depression, which can be easily treated through therapy or anti-depressants if needed. But I would see a doctor before of course.

DiabloD3 9y ago
Interesting you mention the exercise part. Exercise didn't cause pain for me, but was mentally and physically draining to the point that I just didn't do it. It wasn't until I radically modified my diet (hello Paleo) until that slowly lifted and now I'm at least mostly functional there. See my story (somewhere in my comments history on here) about when I used to weigh 340 pounds and then via changing what I ate, not how much, I hit 184, and exercise suddenly wasn't this insanely fatiguing bullshit. Notice: being overweight isn't what caused it, I wasn't nearly that fat when I was a kid, and you couldn't get me to do shit when I was a kid. I don't disagree with what I said being a form mild depression, but it doesn't really fit the definition of it. Antidepressants are also a really bad way of treating depression and ignore your brain's own mechanisms to alleviate depression. Problem is, it seems CFS and depression go hand in hand.
- wellboy 9y ago
  The difficulty of dealing with CFS might cause depression, but apart from that depression does not have to do anything with CFS. Anti-depressant and psycho-therapy are the two best treatments for depression though, everything else is just experimental. Why do you think that mild depression does not fit the symptoms? In its early stages, you only have lack of drive and 2 more of its 7 side symptoms. (these are the diagnosis criteria for mild depression, look it up)

DiabloD3 9y ago

Interesting you mention the exercise part. Exercise didn't cause pain for me, but was mentally and physically draining to the point that I just didn't do it. It wasn't until I radically modified my diet (hello Paleo) until that slowly lifted and now I'm at least mostly functional there. See my story (somewhere in my comments history on here) about when I used to weigh 340 pounds and then via changing what I ate, not how much, I hit 184, and exercise suddenly wasn't this insanely fatiguing bullshit. Notice: being overweight isn't what caused it, I wasn't nearly that fat when I was a kid, and you couldn't get me to do shit when I was a kid. I don't disagree with what I said being a form mild depression, but it doesn't really fit the definition of it. Antidepressants are also a really bad way of treating depression and ignore your brain's own mechanisms to alleviate depression. Problem is, it seems CFS and depression go hand in hand.

wellboy 9y ago
The difficulty of dealing with CFS might cause depression, but apart from that depression does not have to do anything with CFS. Anti-depressant and psycho-therapy are the two best treatments for depression though, everything else is just experimental. Why do you think that mild depression does not fit the symptoms? In its early stages, you only have lack of drive and 2 more of its 7 side symptoms. (these are the diagnosis criteria for mild depression, look it up)