Chronic Fatigue Syndrome- When You Are Always Tired

Medical researchers do not know what causes chronic fatigue syndrome, a disorder that afflicts tens of thousands of people in the United States. Hard to diagnose, doctors will tell you that you have chronic fatigue syndrome if you have suffered from constant tiredness for six months and all other possible diseases and condition have been ruled out. Chronic fatigue syndrome occurs more in women than in men, and causes those afflicted with it to be unable to perform normal tasks at home and in the workplace without tiring quickly and it is often accompanied by short-term memory loss. The treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome focuses on the symptoms only, which can improve over time.

So far science is leaning towards the possibility that chronic fatigue syndrome is precipitated by infections to a person’s immune system. While several viruses have been looked at as possible culprits in chronic fatigue syndrome, so far no single one in particular has emerged as an obvious cause. A strain of bacteria responsible for pneumonia has been looked at in some instances of chronic fatigue syndrome as bringing the condition about, and treating for that specific bacteria has been successful in many cases in reversing symptoms. But there are other cases of chronic fatigue syndrome that have been linked to infections totally unrelated to one another, and the research is still ongoing.