IANAD, but if your symptoms are exercise-induced, then maybe you have Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency and not CFS? The reason why I suggest this is that if you're getting flu like symptoms after exercising, to me this suggests a possible role for inflammation. And it would possibly explain why your symptoms are exacerbated by stress.
There isn't enough research on CECD that doctors are able to yet diagnose people with it, but I think the research that does exist so far is pretty compelling.
Okay, CECD is an interesting suggestion that I hadn't heard of, but how would I have gone from having no trace of it in early March 2010 to having a bad case of it in April? In contrast, the onset of (this kind of) CFS is so frequently observed to coincide with a flu-like illness that it is also called Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome.
But I do agree that's it's highly plausible, indeed very likely, that inflammation plays a role.
I suppose I could get a medical marijuana prescription, but that really doesn't appeal to me. My case is relatively mild anyway, I gather, compared to some of the nightmare stories I have read.
IANAD, but if your symptoms are exercise-induced, then maybe you have Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency and not CFS? The reason why I suggest this is that if you're getting flu like symptoms after exercising, to me this suggests a possible role for inflammation. And it would possibly explain why your symptoms are exacerbated by stress.
There isn't enough research on CECD that doctors are able to yet diagnose people with it, but I think the research that does exist so far is pretty compelling.