Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

[juebar]

Hi ,a year ago i was in a traumatic car accident,since then i have been so tired ,at first i thought it was the pain medication i was on so i stopped all of them ,.nothing changed,i can get up each day feeling exhausted do my house work and be back in bed for about 1pm.I sleep for about an hour or two then i can cope till bed time (approx 8pm),the other symptoms i have is a feeling of generally being unwell achy etc.Having four children to look after makes this a reall pain,i also suffer from aches and pains.My gp has arranged for me to see a neurosurgeon,but it is in a months time.Can anyone tell me what the neurosurgeon is looking for and if i have chronic fatigue syndrome at all.Does anyone know of anything which can help beat the tiredness and utter exhaustion that i feel.Thanks Julie

[chell]

Hi there; l can try and possibly give you an answer. l am now seeing an Neurosurgeon after a year of seeing 4 different Dr.s who said l had a "mechanical back injury" which means a sprained back and told me that for the rest of my life on and off , l will be getting times where l will be just doing someting and my back will give out.
l kept going back to the Dr.s asking for pain pills and they would give me long lasting Arthritus meds and Tylenol 1's and l suppose they got to the point of seeing me so often they set up an appointment with another dr, but l never made it.
One day l was painting and l had realized l had not gone to the bathroom in nearly 36 hrs and l called a friend and asked to go to the ER because that was life or death due to the damaged nerves, l thought from my back. l got to the ER and they left me on the toilet for almost two hours and the female Dr. on, said she knew just who l needed to help me and then they catherized me and it was almost two bags full of urine.
Now, remember, l have back and leg problems and just before the Er l got a sharp pain down my arm from the base of my head to my fingers and my arm and hand were completely numb the next day, that was about a week before.
So when l saw the Neurologist he asked me to touch my fingers to my nose, look ahead and then to the sides, then walk in front of him and stand on one foot and the other and said he had an idea of what the problem was but wanted to do MRI and EMG (which l am doing for 3 days this week) and when l did the MRI, they found a white lesion on the frontal lobe of my brain, so l got very scared and he said that my Dr. would tell me what was going on, and when l went to see her, she could not find the paper but said it had to be okay because there would be more writing.
That was the result from the dye injection in my arm they did for my head.

So by telling you what happened with me, l thought it might help you in going over your injuries , if you recall, some part of your body that is injured that the Dr. can't fix on his own so he has to send you to a specialist.

The Neurologist told me that the bladder sends off signals from 4 veins in the forehead , so it did not have anything to do with the back or legs at all, so it was something completely new. l do wish you well or that any thing that l have said helps. Chelle

[mymax]

I hope you're feeling better - I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 1991 after my Lyme test came back negative. Chronic fatigue manifests in different ways for different people but mine showed itself by draining me of all my energy. I had swollen glands for weeks on end, I'd sleep for 8 hours and wake up feeling like I'd never gone to bed. I suffered with insomnia, depression, and was sensitive to light. I started to lose my cognitive abilites and it really scared me when I couldn't count to 100 by 20's (20 -40- 60 -80- 100).

During the four years I suffered miserably, I looked positively fine on the outside. 18 years ago, the doctors said it was an imaginary illness since they couldn't connect it to anything specific except Epstein Barr. (My titers were off the chart) It took a long time to discover that I had a virus hiding in my liver or where ever they like to hide. Once I took the Zpak, I began to get better.