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I recently had a serious viral infection about 7 weeks ago and had all of the flu symptoms (fever, loss of appetite, tiredness, fatigue and muscle and joint aches) after about a week fever went away along with the all of the symptoms described above except for being tired and jointaches. Now my doc told me that I have pericarditis (chest pain) thats usually effected by viral infection.. About a week after the infection I felt exhausted from light exercise and didn't felt rested after 8 to 10 hour sleep . Now I do feel alot better where I can still work 8 hours a day without feeling totally exhausted and dont have the foggy thoughts but still having joint aches that comes and goes on my hips, knees and ankle. My doc says its just post viral infection but worried about CFS or fibro. Am I reading too far ahead or should I be concerned about these symptoms. Thank you
I answered that already. It's a complicated situation. The CFS definition was developed for research not diagnosis making it less than ideal, also and is definited as a "syndrome" not an "illness" so it's not cut and dry. I tried to give you a lot of hard earned insight since you've got a chance now that many of us never had because we didn't know about CFS until we'd had it a while. There are things you can do at onset to help avoid heading for the later full blown thing. It will probably take a few readings to understand what I was getting at (especially when dealing with post-viral symptoms). Good luck.
I have been reading upon CFS and is it too early to say its CFS?. its only been 7 weeks with some fatigue and joint pain. I am hoping that symptoms disappears with the chest pain alleviation
Have you been checked for lyme? It's a must. Also, you might want to see an infectious diseases specialist to be sure something that needs or can be treated isn't being missed.
It's good that you're feeling better, but many CFS cases do get triggered by viruses. What you are describing IS the symptom set. For some people it can start with one virus but then get worse with each virus. For other people it really never reappears. For some people it just hits bad with the first one and stays around. The CFS symptom set while it's pretty specific other illnesses can over lap on symptoms a lot, hence the caution to check.
Also get your thryoid checked, a virus can knock it out.
If you are building up to CFS full fledged version, then now's the time to get knowledgeable. If you know more you'll have more power to minimize it's chances of occuring. For instance, being more accomodating if your body is under stress such as a virus and taking time to recover, can be much better than our cultures "just push through it" attitude.
For CFS studies have show that people who get very sick initially and are hospitalized have the best prognosis for recovery. The guessing is that it's because they are given IV fluids. If you read through the posts here you'll see about dysautonomias and low blood volume. Keeping hydrated helps with that. The other is that it's because they are given a chance to seriously rest at the onset. Who knows, but it's it's worth the consideration.
I went through a couple years where each virus didn't produce much fever, which was strange for me since I normally run very high fevers with illness, and recovery was lasting over a month instead of a couple weeks. Eventually one virus was a doozzy and both my mom and I were impacted. I got CFS and was bedridden (I'm doing better thank you), my mom spent 3 months in bed and recovered mostly but her thryoid went bad and she developed mitravalue prolapse (both potentially related to CFS). So, your getting a high fever could be the typical "flu" that triggers CFS, however, it's why I suggested checking out lyme.
I'm glad your learning now. One of the problems with this illness is it often hits bad at first (after the intial couple years of not quite right). Eventually people find things to help and feel better. However, unlike other illnesses, there isn't that learning curve time between diagnosis and severity onset. It's backwards that way.
What you describe is CFS rather than FM. I don't see fitting the FM profile. The 2 are very similar but not the same. Either one can have crossover symptoms of the other one and often do. However, if you're getting immune system problems such as you've described - it's CFS.
How is it that you know about either of these? That's unusual. If it's a family member, it's hellpful to know that there does appear to be a genetic connection, not in every case but in many.
Good success!!
It's good that you're feeling better, but many CFS cases do get triggered by viruses. What you are describing IS the symptom set. For some people it can start with one virus but then get worse with each virus. For other people it really never reappears. For some people it just hits bad with the first one and stays around. The CFS symptom set while it's pretty specific other illnesses can over lap on symptoms a lot, hence the caution to check.
Also get your thryoid checked, a virus can knock it out.
If you are building up to CFS full fledged version, then now's the time to get knowledgeable. If you know more you'll have more power to minimize it's chances of occuring. For instance, being more accomodating if your body is under stress such as a virus and taking time to recover, can be much better than our cultures "just push through it" attitude.
For CFS studies have show that people who get very sick initially and are hospitalized have the best prognosis for recovery. The guessing is that it's because they are given IV fluids. If you read through the posts here you'll see about dysautonomias and low blood volume. Keeping hydrated helps with that. The other is that it's because they are given a chance to seriously rest at the onset. Who knows, but it's it's worth the consideration.
I went through a couple years where each virus didn't produce much fever, which was strange for me since I normally run very high fevers with illness, and recovery was lasting over a month instead of a couple weeks. Eventually one virus was a doozzy and both my mom and I were impacted. I got CFS and was bedridden (I'm doing better thank you), my mom spent 3 months in bed and recovered mostly but her thryoid went bad and she developed mitravalue prolapse (both potentially related to CFS). So, your getting a high fever could be the typical "flu" that triggers CFS, however, it's why I suggested checking out lyme.
I'm glad your learning now. One of the problems with this illness is it often hits bad at first (after the intial couple years of not quite right). Eventually people find things to help and feel better. However, unlike other illnesses, there isn't that learning curve time between diagnosis and severity onset. It's backwards that way.
What you describe is CFS rather than FM. I don't see fitting the FM profile. The 2 are very similar but not the same. Either one can have crossover symptoms of the other one and often do. However, if you're getting immune system problems such as you've described - it's CFS.
How is it that you know about either of these? That's unusual. If it's a family member, it's hellpful to know that there does appear to be a genetic connection, not in every case but in many.
Good success!!
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