Reply To: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Dear Friends:

The diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is based on finding no other known cause for fatigue. SInce there is a very real cause of fatigue for GBS and CIDP, then, by definition, people with GBS or CIDP cannot have CFS.

The thing that frustrates me is that people have been given disability status based on CFS, which may or may not have a physical cause, but not with GBS which has a real physiological basis. It just seems wrong. Maybe we need a buzzword for the energy draining aspect of GBS residuals so that we don’t have to go to war every time one of us is forced into a disability retirement.

Lee