Coping
Dealing With Doctors
This page comes from a post that Christa made to the CFS-20s mailing list. I have edited it slightly, and it’s used with permission. As far as doctor’s visits are concerned, you have to really know what you’re walking into. They want to diagnose, prescribe and cure. It’s not possible for this disease and many [...]
Attending School With Fibro/CFS
This page is being developed from a post to CFS-Y (a mailing list for youth with CFS/Fibromyalgia/etc.) that I wrote sometime in the 1990′s. I’ve adapted and expanded it into an article about things that I have used to help survive school whilst I had Fibromyalgia and CFS. Get a general letter from your doctor [...]
Communicating About CFS
CFS is often thought of as ‘All In Your Head’, and people with CFS thought to be ‘taking advantage of’ their illness to get attention from their friends and family. That CFS is not a psychological disorder has now been shown by a multitude of international-level medical studies on several continents, and even the American [...]
Coping with CFS
About a year after I got sick, I was given a book called ‘Coping with CFS’. It wasn’t a very good book, but I liked the title … most books about CFS seem to operate under the assumption that you can cure it in a few months ‘If You Do The Right Thing’, which of [...]
Dealing With Brainfog
Picture this It’s 3pm. I realize that I should have eaten lunch two hours ago and haven’t. I don’t feel hungry, but I go and get a glass of water, and wander over to the fridge. I stared at the fridge, unable to see – despite it having plenty of food in it – anything [...]
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