<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Bunyip @ Oct 16 2009, 09:01 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Please go and do a bit of research on Chronic fatigue. It is the nature of the disease that blood tests can reveal nothing specific, yet the disease and weakness is very real.
I don,t know what pendulum you are talking about, but maybe it is part of the clock that is ticking down until the extinction of the ignorant or unfit ( in Darwinian terms).
I have had chronic fatigue and so I believe has Nuts and Keshav(??). And I regret to inform you that it wasn,t due to Rossi playing head games with me!!
It really is an insult when you know something(your Chronic fatigue) to be true and others disbelieve it because they havn,t had it and they lack the imagination to understand what you are going through.
Bunyip is right.
Years ago I got CFS. I was training a lot, working too hard at uni, working a job and partying too much (normal uni/college existence).
I got to the point where I could not get out of bed. I thought I just had some type of virus, but didn't get better. I also tried to maintain my training, and schedule. I was pretty fit at that time (running triathlons etc, and playing rugby) and the thought of even trying to run or swim, made me physically sick. I got progressivly worse over a period of about 2 - 3 months. I couldn't eat, just wanted to sleep all the time, couldn't concentrate, and it led to strange symptoms like chest pains, and overheating. It even put me off chasing girls. I had a couple of months of different tests, nothing showed up abnormal. I was tested for every virus you can imagine. After finding nothing serious, my doctor even suggested I was under stress and was having some type of mental breakdown (which I knew was ....). I had heard about CFS, but at that time (15 years ago) most people blew it off as a fancy name for being run down.
It ended in me falling asleep at the wheel while driving home one night. I ended up pretty smashed up, and nearly killed one of my best mates (we were actually both pretty lucky to walk away if you saw the car).
I spend 2 months pretty well laid up recovering from the accident, and probably another 3 months recovering from whatever I had. I never went back to the same level of training for fear of getting the same thing again.
At that time I was about 21, fit, and healthy. I had a pretty healthy diet, and had a bulletproof immune system (never got sick).
So what got me ???
I don't know, and doctors never gave me a definite answer. I think CFS is real, and I think it was some type of CFS that I had. I think CFS is a wide range of things that can effect different people in different ways.
This is the reason I have some sympathy towards Stoner.
