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This article is from the Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome (CFS) FAQ, by cfs-news@cais.com (Roger Burns) with
numerous contributions by others.
2.06 How does CFS usually begin?
For a slight majority of patients, the illness begins suddenly as
though one had come down with the flu. Except that this "flu" doesn't
seem to completely go away. For many other patients, the onset appears
gradually over a long period of time.
In many cases, a high-stress event seems to "trigger" the
illness. There are many cases in which CFS appears to have begun with
a severe head injury, for example. But since such events seem to have
no apparent logical connection to the illness that follows, many have
speculated that the CFS was latent in people beforehand in these
cases, and that the stress of trauma merely triggered the
stress-hypersensitivity aspect of the illness. Some have further
speculated that other stressful factors in our environment, be they
microbes or pollution, may also prompt this illness to bloom.
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