Fatigue

Introduction Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has a profound and debilitating effect on the lives of individuals with this disease. With symptoms such as sleeping disturbances, severe fatigue, cognitive processing issues, muscle pain and weakness and sore throat’s and fever this illness affects all aspects of an individual’s life (Asbring 2000, Arroll & Howard 2012). While research is being undertaken to find the underlying causes of this syndrome, it has so far only touched the surface of the…

• Overuse or muscle strain, especially if you are not in shape. This is the most common cause of muscle pain. • Injury. • Bruises. • Viruses, such as the flu. • Infectious diseases. • A chronic condition that causes muscle tenderness, fatigue, and headache (fibromyalgia). • A condition, such as lupus, in which the body’s disease-fighting system attacks other organs in the body (autoimmune disease). • Certain drugs, including ACE inhibitors and statins. Muscle pain may be mild…

Mononucleosis is a very interesting infectious disease. It has been called many things, including the kissing disease and its nickname mono. With getting mono, the victim can’t do sports for a few weeks, which can be really inconvenient. The virus mono spreads and causes many other problems for people in both the past and the present because of the symptoms and how it has to be treated. Mononucleosis is a viral disease. A viral disease is when the disease invades people’s normal cells and…

the symptoms become more serious and specific to the disease. These symptoms include, continuous uncontrollable coughing spells, whooping sound after cough, difficulty breathing, short periods of apnea, vomiting after cough, dehydration, extreme fatigue, and red or blue discoloration of the face due to the lack of oxygen. Diagnosis in this stage is much less difficult. The incubation period for whooping cough is usually 7 to 10 days, but can be as long as 21 days (Pertussis, 2015). The…

Fibromyalgia and Duchenne muscular dystrophy are both diseases found in the muscular system. These diseases have many different treatments used to make patients better. They have many different and some similar signs and symptoms of these diseases. The muscular and nervous systems have connections on working together. These systems have functions and main structures. I will be discussing these diseases and systems in the following paragraphs. Fibromyalgia disease is found in the muscle system…

At first the artist would experience and great surge in productivity, a so-called “second wind”, but as the night continued fatigue and exhaustion would set in. The artist would experience this second wind because when an individual refrains from sleep for an extended period of time his mesolimbic dopamine system becomes somewhat over-stimulated. The mesolimbic dopamine system…

As a non-traditional student, returning to college was a considerable adjust for me. Although I was successful in obtaining positions in various departments that typically require a degree, I decided to further my skillset by pursuing a bachelor degree in Finance. The biggest challenge that I have faced over the past 5 years is achieving a healthy work-life balance. While working full-time and attending classes, I often times find myself exhausted and burnout. My idea of an idyllic work-life…

For my entire life, I have been collecting clutter. My life resulted being more for taking care of my stuff than it was for living. It took a while to realize that the amount of junk I had was a factor into my unhappiness and stress. I came across this blog that explained this concept called minimalism: a lifestyle devoted to having less. I was intrigued by this lifestyle, so I began purging my clutter that night. I decluttered by asking myself if each item I owned was useful to me or made me…

What is Mononucleosis? Mononucleosis or “The Kissing Disease” is a viral infection which causes swollen lymph nodes, fever, and sore throat. Causes The Kissing Disease is caused by contact of saliva from an infected person to another person; it can also be spread through contact by an infected person. This disease is not commonly infected by other diseases. The disease has been diagnosed together with a disease by the name of Epstein-Bar Virus for short EBV. A person usually beings to feel the…

A previously healthy 21 year old male presents himself to our clinic with a 7 day history of an extreme malaise, stiffness and tenderness in the neck and a sore throat. Upon analysis it was confirmed they were diagnosed with infectious mononucleosis, also known as glandular fever. It is commonly caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) (Hurt & Tammar, 2007). Infectious mononucleosis is a clinical syndrome that can be characterized by a multitude of symptoms. The disease is most likely to occur in…