Stages Of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Health Matters

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a health illness characterized by abnormal weariness, exhaustion, and low stamina in patients who perform activities that do not have the same tiring affect in others. Complicating the treatment of this disease in patients, is the fact that it materializes (worsens) in stages. The different stages of chronic fatigue syndrome can apparently affect the outcome (or lack thereof) of treatment and they have presented new health challenges to understanding how CFS can be cured. The following information is a brief description of the main cfs stages in question.

The early stages and symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are the most important - as these symptoms are the most treatable and reveal that the disease has not affected certain parts of patients' brains.

In the second and third phases of cfs, the adrenal gland (either of a pair of complex endocrine glands situated near the kidney) is being over-aroused by the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis.

It is in the fourth and fifth stages of this disease that the adrenal gland stops responding to the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis, and responses to that treatment of symptoms appear immune.

Although this information is an abbreviated version of the information you would find in years of medical research, we hope that it sheds some light on the issues at work in this illness, and that it explains why patients suffering from cfs additionally exhibit signs of depression and anxiety.

Also See: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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