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http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/h...ng-condition-12033537#rlabs=1 rt$category p$7
A teenager has described how she was struck down with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome at the age of 12.
Sophie Irving, 16, from Cardiff, said the syndrome started after she had a virus in year eight at Ysgol Glantaf.
“I had sinusitis and kept going to the doctor but didn’t have enough energy to do anything.
"I spent most of my time in the house. For three months I didn’t go to school or see friends.”
The schoolgirl had leg pains, headaches and exhaustion.
CFS does not show up on blood tests so her doctor sent her to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff where a specialist diagnosed it.
“CFS is a physical illness that is to do with chemicals in your brain,” said Sophie.
“There is no cure. You just have to push through. I was scared because I thought it was all in my head and started to doubt myself.”
Doctors advised Sophie to push herself and return to school for half days. By the start of year 10 she had returned full time.
But the pupil, who had been learning harp and piano as well as playing hockey and netball in and out of school, has cut back her activities and now just plays school netball.
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I think fairly understandably it has attracted mainly negative comments.