Essential information for patient and family

• Fatigue as a symptom is extremely common and could relate to a diversity of underlying physical and/or psychological pathologies.
• Chronic fatigue often improves spontaneously.
• Management of chronic fatigue is possible with good results.
• No single management approach to CFS has been found to be universally successful, but effective treatment does exist. The patient’s belief about their condition may guide the choice of treatment.
• Symptoms are genuinely disabling and are not ‘all in the mind’. Symptoms following exertion are not synonymous with physical damage and long-term disability.
  

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