Are You Just a Tired Mom or is It Chronic Fatigue?

Chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as CFS is a condition that chronic fatigue doctors say have become very widespread in the United States. There are many chronic fatigue symptoms and many of them are quite unpleasant.

Symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome include aching muscles and joints, anxiety, depression, difficulty concentrating, fever, headaches, intestinal problems, irritability, jaundice, loss of appetite, mood swings, muscle spasms, recurrent upper respiratory tract infections, sensitivity to tight and heat, sleep disturbances, sore throats, swollen glands (the lymph nodes. The condition is also associated with sleep disturbances, memory loss and also extreme disabling fatigue.

The probe with chronic fatigue syndrome is that the symptoms are very similar to those of the flue and other viral infections. This leads to a lot of problems as a person searches from help for a doctor. This is because it is often misdiagnosed a hypochondria, psychosomatic illness or depression. This reason this type of diagnosis is so common is because routine medical tests are unable to detect any problems.

The syndrome is also three times more prevalent in women than in men and it is also more likely to affect young adults between the ages of twenty and forty years.

The major criteria that is used to establish a chronic fatigue disorder are —
• Persistent fatigues that does not resolve with bed rest and that is severe enough to reduce average daily activity by at least fifty percent for at least six months.

• The presence of other chronic clinical conditions including psychiatric disorders.
The exact causes of chronic fatigue syndrome are not very well understood. Some people believe it is linked to contracting an infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) that is a member of the herpes virus family. This same virus also causes mononucleosis. This belief is based on the fact that many people with chronic fatigue syndrome have been found to have high levels of EBV antibodies in their blood and that many people date the onset of symbols to a prolonged bout with a viral infection. However no absolute connection between EBV and chronic fatigue has ever been proved.

There have been many other suspects in what causes this disease including the theory that it might be triggered wily a yet-to-be-indentified immune system problem or problems to do with blood pressure. Other causes that have been conjectured include chronicle mercury poisoning form dental fillings, hypothyroidism, and infection with the fungus Candida Albans, and sleep problems

Chronic fatigue is also linked with fibromyalgia, a muscle disorder that causes muscle weakness. The two conditions do seem to come hand in hand when the disease is present in anybody living with chronic fatigue.

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All About Chronic Headaches

Over forty million people living in the United States today suffer from some type of recurring headache problem. Headaches are one of the plagues of our society and not every single headache is even reported so the problem is more widespread than we think!

It is a fact that one in six Americans suffers from one kind of headache or another every single day. This necessitates the use of pain medication or sleeping pills just to struggle through daily existence or to have a peaceful night's sleep.

Many of us take painkillers to handle headaches but unfortunately pain medication does not treat the root cause of chronic cases of head pain. Instead the pain killer is like a pacifier that only treats the symptoms temporarily. Before you know it the pain rebounds back with a vicious backlash!

The result is eventually a relentless and tedious cycle of dependency on pain killers –where every time you get a headache you have to take a pain killer to treat it. You then you end up with a rebound headache that occurs again once the medication wears right off.

One of the ways a person can get out of this habitual recurring 'pain loop' is chiropractic care. For many people chiropractic treatments are so effective that a person can stop taking pain pills altogether. Luckily chiropractic treatment is effective therapy for many types of headaches including muscle, tension, migraine, cluster, digestive, toxic and other types.

Desperate headache sufferers often seek chiropractic treatment as a very last resort and then are delighted to discover that as a result they achieve long lasting pain relief and even a cure for the condition. They then wonder why they did not just did not go to a chiropractor in the first place and save themselves a lot of money, time and effort.

The reason that chiropractic treatment works so well on headaches is because we have found from experience that many kinds of headaches are associated with misaligned vertebras that pinch spinal nerves. A chiropractor can also determine the cause of your headache and what type of postures you might be adopting during your daily routine that make it worse.

Perhaps one of the worst things about headache pain is that it is so demoralizing. The physical pain and misery and the unending anxiety that the pain will never go away depresses even the most optimistic of sufferers. It can leave some people in bed for days and the lack of normal living, exercise and sunshine then makes the problem even worse!

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