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    Cycle: Steady, Hype, relapse, crash...

    I have recently and she gave me some information material but did not take it further as I was leaving the country too soon. In the UK it seems ME is more accepted though than in Germany, where non of my doctors picked up on it. I for a long time thought it should be something different as in...
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    Cycle: Steady, Hype, relapse, crash...

    yes, good point. However, I am wondering whether that is just my normal self and it just feels so good because I feel so low usually. Also, bipolar would not have these physical symptoms. And I have many of the physical symptoms that make up CFS. Would astounds me actually is that the cyclical...
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    PMS and CFS

    I feel like my CFS is very much related to my cycle or blurs in with PMS and I find it very confusing! I would like to know whether that is the case for all women or whether this is only true for some people. I often can't really say whether I have a relapse as it might also be PMS. Would be...
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    Cycle: Steady, Hype, relapse, crash...

    MDear all, I am pretty new to CFS ( I think I had it for years but I didn't quite understand it as such). I have many of the symptoms but a mild form in comparison to many others, so I can live normally most of the time. I just wanted to ask others here that also work on normal to really good...