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Article: No cure yet: for now, sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome struggle to ease the symptoms.(Executive Lifestyles: Health: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)(Disease/Disorder overview)
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- Florida Trend
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- May 1, 2008
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Sometimes it hits with flulike symptoms: Sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, muscle pain, a headache and a fuzzy feeling in the brain that makes concentration impossible. Instead of going away in a few days or a week, the symptoms last for months. Sometimes subsiding and then reappearing, they leave a feeling of exhaustion after even the lightest physical and mental activity.
Chronic fatigue syndrome is so debilitating, many people who suffer from it can no longer do their jobs.
Until about 10 years ago, chronic fatigue and a list of other ailments linked to it were thought to be largely psychological, brought on by stress.
Today, doctors ...