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I had to go to the hospital on wednesday for X-rays for something called a GI series. Which is basically where they're making sure your stomach is normal. I walk into a room with a piece of equipment so big it could be a house for like 3 people. They lie me on a table underneath it. Then they raise the table so I'm standing up right but my back is

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A great deal of debate has surrounded the issue of how best to define CFS. In an effort to resolve these issues, an international panel of CFS research experts convened in 1994 to draft a definition of CFS that would be useful both to researchers studying the illness and to clinicians diagnosing it. In essence, in order to receive a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome, a patient must satisfy two criteria:

1. Have severe chronic fatigue of six months or longer duration with other known medical conditions excluded by clinical diagnosis; and
2. Concurrently have four or more of the following symptoms: substantial impairment in short-term memory or concentration; sore throat; tender lymph nodes; muscle pain; multi-joint pain without swelling or redness; headaches of a new type, pattern or severity; unrefreshing sleep; and post-exertional malaise lasting more than 24 hours.

The symptoms must have persisted or recurred during six or more consecutive months of illness and must not have predated the fatigue.

Do you satisfy these two criteria?

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actually, i do. i've had it since january and i infact have more than those 4 symptons. don't think you're original, before the doctors told me i had it those two things are the exact things they have told me.
i think if a doctor tells me i have it, he's pretty right.

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that was really bitchy. i apologize david.