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    Explaining CFS Symptoms to Well People

    I have had CFS since 1980, at the age of 33, and was diagnosed in 1992. For the first 25 years I would sometimes go into fairly lengthy periods of full remission; however, no longer. When remissions did occur, I was intrigued by their onset, and subsequent disappearance - it was sudden!! I...