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I really hope so. I went through a bout of cronic fatigue after a nose surgery that lasted ~4 months and it was utter hell. It really feels like the life has b
by CooCooCaCha 1y ago
I really hope so.
I went through a bout of cronic fatigue after a nose surgery that lasted ~4 months and it was utter hell. It really feels like the life has been drained from your body and on top of that, random things go wrong with your body seemingly every day. One day you’ll have strange stomach bloating and feel nauseous, another day you’ll barely be able to stand without fainting, another day you’ll feel heart palpitations, etc.
What made it so much harder to deal with was it’s an invisible illness. Nobody knows about it, and it generally doesn’t show up on tests. The only test that showed anything significant was a tilt-table test where I fainted in the middle of it.
Otherwise I went to the hospital multiple times because I thought I was having a heart attack, I’ve had doctors get angry at me for “wasting their time”, thinking I’m faking it, and friends/family not understanding.
Not to mention having to pretend everything was fine at work. There were times I had to lie down on the bathroom floor to keep myself from fainting or due to heart palpitations. Luckily we had clean, private bathrooms.
As I said, I slowly got better over the course of months, and not everyone is that lucky unfortunately. Honestly if I didn’t get better I probably wouldn’t be here to write this…
Not to trauma dump but a lot of people don’t know about these illnesses or think they’re fake so I wanted to relay my experience.
- HarHarVeryFunny 1y agoSounds horrible! I'm glad you recovered!
- CooCooCaCha 1y agoThanks! This was years ago so thankfully I’m well past it.
- giardini 1y agoYeah! Especially the "nose surgery that lasted ~4 months"! But be honest: even the surgeons must have been tired after that: 4 months of looking down the same nose - Gaaaaah!
- automationwiz 1y agoI don't want to rain on your parade but this was most likely not CFS. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is diagnosed through the Canadian Consensus Criteria where Post Exertional Malaise is one of the defining factors. Where your body reacts to exercise or exertion 24h-48hrs later, not in the moment, but later. It also has to be going on greater than 6 months. CFS isn't "fatigue", its a bad name, it is a syndrome of symptoms.
- coolcase 1y agoDo you have any feeling as to why it only lasted 4 months. Sounds unusual to have the spot on CFS like experience for such a short time so wonder if there was a trigger to recovery.