Chronic Fatigue and Chronic Depression are absolutely systemic in our society today. Recent studies done by the AMA and CMA purport one in four people in North America are suffering from some form of chronic fatigue or depression and it’s expected eight out of ten of us will experience similar afflictions in our lifetime. But numbers like these don’t speak to the cause and only tell half the story.
If you or a friend or relative suffers from this severe and often debilitating disease, you may have wondered, as I have, why the word "syndrome?"
When you are allergic to a particular food your body initially reacts with alarm and the symptoms are very clear.
The real causes of fatigue are still unknown, but doctors and scientists know what factors usually precede them. Read on to understand these factors so that you can find ways to avoid them.
Fatigue is extremely common in patients who have arthritis. While it is a common complaint in patients who have “bread and butter” types of arthritis like osteoarthritis, it is even more common in patients who have inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. Fatigue is often a sign of a flare of disease.
