Glandular Fever..

mardatha

It does sound so very like ME.

Brighton_belle

mardatha wrote: »

It does sound so very like ME.

Yes, I think there are a lot of similarities, but it isn't, as she has 'only' been ill for 4ish weeks. You can't be diagnosed with ME until you have had a range of symptoms for 6 months.
And even then,GF fatigue can carry on for a year at dimishing levels.
Most peope who have had GF will need to learn to listen to their body much quicker in the future and not get sucked into 'but I shouldn't feel this tired just for doing x. I always managed to do x before'. Well you do feel that tired and you need to stop now and learn to say no to anything you don't feel up to doing that you don't absolutely have to do.

Mojisola

Brighton_belle wrote: »

Yes, I think there are a lot of similarities, but it isn't, as she has 'only' been ill for 4ish weeks. You can't be diagnosed with ME until you have had a range of symptoms for 6 months.

This has been reduced to four months now - https://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Chronic-fatigue-syndrome/Pages/Diagnosis.aspx

Just because someone has only been ill for four weeks doesn't mean they don't have ME, just that the NHS won't diagnosis as such. You don't have something else that suddenly becomes ME at four months.

Brighton_belle

Mojisola wrote: »

This has been reduced to four months now - www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Chronic-fatigue-syndrome/Pages/Diagnosis.aspx

Just because someone has only been ill for four weeks doesn't mean they don't have ME, just that the NHS won't diagnosis as such. You don't have something else that suddenly becomes ME at four months.

Oh, it's been updated then - thanks for letting me know.
I understood ME to be one's body unable to recover from an original virus, rather than a virus in it's own right. Hence quite a lot of people with ME had a starting point of glandular fever, or flu etc that go on to have ME either by never recovering or at some point in the future, but it was GF /flu to start with IYSWIM.

Mojisola

Brighton_belle wrote: »

I understood ME to be one's body unable to recover from an original virus, rather than a virus in it's own right. Hence quite a lot of people with ME had a starting point of glandular fever, or flu etc that go on to have ME either by never recovering or at some point in the future, but it was GF /flu to start with IYSWIM.

There's probably a lot of things getting labeled as ME/CFS now, including Post-Viral Fatigue which is what you describe.

mardatha

It's all connected, isn't it? Wish they would find out how to cure the bloody thing ..

Mojisola

mardatha wrote: »

Wish they would find out how to cure the bloody thing ..

Got to agree with that!

I wouldn't wish ME on anyone but maybe if Bill and Melinda Gates had someone in their family with ME, enough money would be found to do the necessary research.