Conditions I Learnt Today

After looking at so many articles, the condition is actually named Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to replace other names like I mentioned below. I guess it's the difference between how the Americans and British call them? PVS seems to be written by UK people...
Post-Viral Syndrome: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1710789/pdf/jroyalcgprac00029-0021.pdf

I am going to share some conditions I witnessed today. First, post-viral syndrome. There is one patient who complains of whole body-ache after a viral infection.
Quote: "The syndrome typically follows an upper respiratory tract infection from which the sufferer fails to make a full recovery, complaining of a multitude of symptoms which may persist for months or even years. The cardinal symptom is profound
muscular fatigue and this is often accompanied by muscle pain, headache, paraesthesiae, dizziness, urinary frequency, cold extremities, bouts of sweating and fainting attacks. Other symptoms are poor memory, lack of concentration, sleep disturbance, mild expressive and receptive dysphasia, hyperacusis and emotional lability. Clinical examination usually shows no abnormalities, nor do routine laboratory investigations. The diagnosis is therefore one of exclusion. The illness follows one of three courses: many patients recover completely, in others there is a relapsing and remitting course and in some there is chronic illness. Relapses are precipitated by undue physical or mental stress: patients who rest adequately in the early stages are said to have the best chance of an early, complete recovery without relapse."

There is another term which I want to bring up: Neurasthenia. 'Neurasthenia is a condition of nervous exhaustion, characterised by undue fatigue on slightest exertion, both physical and mental, with which are associated symptoms of abnormalfunctioning, mainly referable to disorders of the vegetative nervous system. The chief symptoms are headache, gastrointestinal disturbances, and subjective sensations of all kinds'. (The term has remained in use in some European countries including France and Russia, but has become virtually obsolete in the United States.)

The doctor told me that there are people who suffer from this condition and landed up in their most downs in their life. It took one year for that person to finally decided to find the meaning of his life and strife to rid of this syndrome and become a normal person again. That was how debilitating this condition can do to a person.