You Know You Have CFS When …

… you search all over for your purse at work, calling security, checking your car in the parking lot and finally deciding it is gone for good, before realizing that it is hanging on the back of your chair…under your sweater. — Cassie Selleck

… you do the “Tim Conway Shuffle” all the way to the bathroom in the middle of the night. — Cassie Selleck

… friends who ask, “why are you walking like an old lady?” are likely to get hit with your cane. — Cassie Selleck

… you find yourself standing in the middle of the bathroom with an unopened packet of coffee and have no clue what you came there for. — Cassie Selleck

… a sneeze paralyzes you with the electric shock it sends down your arms. — Cassie Selleck

… you realize that you are putting the salt away in the refrigerator. — Carole Colquehoun

… you can’t find your house keys – again – and realize you might have put them in a pocket as you came inside yesterday, but can’t remember what you were wearing yesterday. — Carole Colquehoun

… you are talking to someone on the phone, but can’t remember who called whom (or why). — Carole Colquehoun

… you use something out of a tube on your toothbrush and it isn’t toothpaste. — Carole Colquehoun

… you give up on your dog coming to you on command because you forgot her name. — Windy Foster

… you go to take the clean dishes out of the washer and find your best sweater and pants that were to be on the hand washed cycle in the dishwasher. — Bonnie

… you take your mother to the hospital and use the restroom, remarking to yourself how odd the women’s restroom is in the hospital. On your way out, two men come in. — Phyllis

… the only thing that doesn’t hurt is not attached to your body. — Nancy H

… you are at a Fibromyalgia conference and you sit in the back and you see a room full of people flexing their necks at various times throughout the presentation. — Nancy H

… you sit in front of the computer and intend to surf the web, but instead just stare at the welcome screen. — Nancy H

… when people look at you and say “You’re looking good.” and you want to strangle them but your concerned that your hands will hurt too much. — Nancy H

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