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How Two Women Found The Energy To Fight Back After Losing Years Of Their Lives To Chronic Fatigue
Thursday 23 January 2020
From Irish newspaper the Belfast Telegraph:
 Stressed out: problems with sleep is one of the symptoms of CFS. |
How two women found the energy to fight back after losing years of their lives to chronic fatigue
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, also known as ME/CFS, can be debilitating and tough to manage - but there is hope. Abi Jackson talks to two women whose lives changed as a result of the condition.
When your health is suddenly taken away from you, keeping hopeful can be difficult - especially if doctors aren't entirely sure how to help.
This is a familiar scenario for many people affected by ME or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), which affects an estimated 270,000-odd people in the UK and Ireland. Although awareness has improved, a lot of mystery and misunderstanding still surrounds the condition. The main symptom is debilitating fatigue (along with a host of other things, including pain, brain fog, dizziness, nausea and sleep problems), which can be immensely severe.
Linda Jones, a mum-of-two and company director from West Midlands, went from being a high-flying fitness fanatic with a buzzing social life, to losing almost everything after being diagnosed in 2002 aged 34.
"I lost six years of my life. I remember bits of it, but not most of it. I lost my home, everything," says Jones. At the height of the illness, some days she could barely move or speak. Her career, marriage and independence all ground to a halt.
In a "weird way", getting a diagnosis was a relief. "I thought, 'okay great, at least we know what we're dealing with'," Jones recalls (lots of people with CFS still face a battle on this front). "But then the next stumbling block was, well, we don't actually know what to do with you."
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