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We look at fatigue sufferers with a unique perspective! The cost of intermittent and chronic fatigue condition is in the billions. From lost productivity to a miserable quality of life, this condition can cripple an individual and their family.
More and more Americans are reporting symptoms of fatigue ranging from brain fog, listlessness, feeling like a slow starter or complete exhaustion—just to name a few. Fatigue can affect both men and women at any age. There may be certain events that can trigger fatigue including but not limited to extreme stress, genetic predisposition, environmental factors, weakened immune system, hormonal imbalances, viruses including rubella, human herpesvirus 6, Ross River virus (RRV), Epstein-Barr (EBV), and others and also a wide range of bacterial infections.
The Functional Medicine approach gets you on the road to reducing your fatigue issues.
When it comes to identifying fatigue, chronic fatigue, and its part in your body and brain function, our office may do a little more than conventional doctors and traditional brain experts. Here’s why. Not everyone is wired, as illustrated in a textbook, and not every case is simplified as we read in the literature.
Each patient is unique and different. Sure, we can run the same tests and have a plan for success. But each patient will eventually have different exercises, duration, and nutritional needs than another patient. This is because we all have differing lifestyles, genetics, and environmental factors playing vital roles in your health.
Over the first few visits, we test most of our patients for over 60 causes of brain fog, declining memory, eyesight, declines in balance and coordination, headaches, and fatigue. This is in addition to structural deviations and metabolic conditions discovered through our examination and blood tests. We do this because most of our patients are more than just a rolled ankle. And, if you’re fortunate to have just a rolled ankle, the less you are inflamed and the faster your brain can communicate with digestion, immunity, and blood flow, the faster you will heal. You could have hidden infections, hormone imbalances, blood sugar handling issues, blood supply deficiencies, anemias, inflammation, digestive inefficiency, and many other causes to your health challenges.
Often, when memory is declining, or something such as a mild tremor develops, patients quickly get into their doctor demanding tests. Our current standard of care is some basic testing, a series of questions, and then ordering standard blood tests and possibly a brain scan or MRI. The unfortunate reality of these scans is that for the radiologist to diagnose any neurodegenerative disease, for most patients, it is already too late, the damage is irreversible.
Symptoms of chronic fatigue include but are not limited to memory loss, difficulty concentrating, enlarged lymph nodes in your neck or armpits, sleep that isn’t restful, headaches, chronic insomnia, and other sleep disorders, muscle pain, joint pain (without swelling or redness), and extreme exhaustion lasting more than 24 hours after physical or mental exercise.
These symptoms can lead to depression, lifestyle changes, social isolation, inability to stay focused while at work, increased absences from work or other activities, or a feeling of helplessness.
Because of the similarities between symptoms of chronic fatigue and many other conditions, it’s important to not self-diagnose. Schedule an appointment so we can properly diagnose the root cause of your fatigue. Luckily there are metabolic, genetic, and other laboratory tests that help decipher the cause of your health challenges, and most of these tests show health event clues and details years, if not decades before an MRI shows any severe and irreversible damage.