She also provides readers with a picture of the community of those afflicted with CFS, and some details on the most recent research being done to study the illness. In her new book, Through the Shadowlands, science journalist Julie Rehmeyer chronicles her history with CFS, including her own attempts to find a probable cause and her mental and physical struggles with the condition. Although as many as 2.5 million Americans could be afflicted with the illness, there is no cure for CFS, and scientists still don’t understand its cause. While exhaustion is indeed part of it, the worst symptoms are often debilitating: loss of motor functions for periods of time, feeling ill after even mild exercise, drops in blood pressure, and quickening heart rate. Who among us isn’t tired all the time? And yet chronic fatigue is a condition with a name that belies the very serious malady it’s meant to convey. If someone told you she had something called chronic fatigue syndrome, you might not take her very seriously. Photo: ©SuperStock/Getty Images/SuperStock RM
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