More on symptoms, symptom listing
Dear Cort,
I am interested to read your list. I think it would be useful for people to rate their symptoms, though this is challenging to set up. Some symptoms are aspects of other, more general kinds of symptoms/symptom categories. Do this on a good cognitive-functioning day!
Now I am just noticing the section called "Other Symptoms" above. I have those except for the rapid heart beat and fever. My temperature has always been low. In fact, I couldn't get off school when I was young because even when I was really sick I wouldn't have a fever-- 98.6 is a fever for me! Generally, symptoms involving speed and intensity don't pertain in my case.
When I was part of a mostly FMS support group (the CFS people almost never did--no energy apparently!) I noticed this was a distinction between the two disorders. The FMS people seem to suffer from intensities and some "hyper" aspects that I never have. We all had trouble sleeping, brain fog and pain but they complained more of pain and less of slowness, cognitive problems, PEM. It is interesting to learn that there are some different imbalances going on in our respective systems. And maybe there are people with a mixture of these problems. Let's see what we can learn here about ourselves!
Cecelia
