Posted in Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, My IC Life on Aug 16th, 2008 Edit | No Comments »
The past few weeks have been literally hell for me. I am now beginning to slowly start feeling human again and I hope that it doesn’t take much longer for me to recover. I have been going through severe bouts of insomnia and with having ME/CFS & Fibromyalgia, it is extra hard.
I went to see […]
Posted in Fibromyalgia, IC Disease, ME/CFS, My IC Life, Pain on Jul 6th, 2008 Edit | 2 Comments »
When you suffer from so many chronic illnesses like I do, the pain and symptoms from each illness can all flare on the same day. I’m not good company to be around when this happens and today was one of those days. My husband and I were out of town Friday and Saturday so that […]
Posted in IC Disease, ME/CFS, Treatments on Jun 11th, 2008 Edit | 1 Comment »
Closing out my series on one of the illnesses related to IC Disease, today I will finish up with treatments for ME/CFS. Treating ME/CFS is very complicated because what works for one person may not work for another. Also, it may take many trial and error attempts to find the perfect combination that works. And […]
Posted in Diagnosis, IC Disease, ME/CFS on Jun 10th, 2008 Edit | 1 Comment »
Diagnosing ME/CFS can be a process that takes years for some patients. There is a not currently a diagnostic test that can determine that someone definitely has ME/CFS. The illness is diagnosed by excluding all other illnesses that have similar symptoms, a complete blood work up, and whether or not the patient meets the official CDC Criteria:
Clinically […]
Posted in IC Disease, ME/CFS, Symptoms on Jun 9th, 2008 Edit | 2 Comments »
If you are just coming to the IC Disease site for the first time today, you will want to read Part 1 of this before continuing with this post. Today I will be focusing on the symptoms of CFS which, after you have read the post, you will understand why I broke it up into […]
Posted in IC Disease, ME/CFS on Jun 7th, 2008 Edit | No Comments »
It might take me a few posts to cover ME/CFS because of the complexity of the illness. I have personally suffered from this illness for almost 20 years and write about it daily on my Fighting Fatigue website.
ME/CFS, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS), & Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), […]
Posted in Endometriosis, Fibromyalgia, IC Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Lupus, ME/CFS on Jun 6th, 2008 Edit | 2 Comments »
If you talk to someone with Interstitial Cystitis, you will probably find that the patient has more than one chronic condition going on. They don’t have just IC Disease. I was diagnosed first with ME/CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - ME/CFS is the new name) 18 years ago; later it was an IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) […]
