Chronic Fatigue & Fibromyalgia

Have you seen multiple physicians for minor ailments such as headaches, joint pains, muscle pains, or an irritable bowel? Have you been given drugs to treat each individual symptom? Have you noticed additional symptoms such as fatigue, anxiety and panic, irritability, extreme mental fog, and low grade fevers. Or, have you been plagued by recurring infections. If these symptoms are familiar you may be one of the three to six million Americans suffering from Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Many patients have been made to believe by physicians that it is ‘all in their head.’ Some have been told that they will just ‘have to live with it.’

Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are often debilitating conditions that share a number of symptoms such as aches, sleep disturbances and fatigue. These two conditions are causing a rise in disability rates disproportionate to our capacity to identify and treat. Twenty five percent of people with Fibromyalgia are considered disabled.

Practitioners of integrative medicine assume that there is no magic drug that serves as a single source cure for this syndrome. They assume that there are several sub-clinical problems like single players in an orchestra. Viral infections, parasitic infections, Candida, hypoglycemia, food sensitivities, nutritional deficiencies, heavy metal toxicity, sick thyroid syndrome, and immune dysfunction can all play a role to orchestrate the cacophony of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia.

Prior to diagnosing either of these conditions, illnesses such as Lupus, severe anemia, severe heart disease, and kidney disorders have to be eliminated. Once the diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Fibromyalgia has been made, then listening to you– the patient, correcting the immune system, and establishing a good nutritional program are the pivotal approaches I use in my practice to help you to start the healing process.

Please Note: Dr. Varsha Rathod does not perform the Marshal Protocol.

Dr. Varsha Rathod is a Board Certified Rheumatologist and Internist at Preventive Medicine in the Westport Plaza area of St. louis, MO. The Practice has focused on a combination of traditional and holistic medicine since 1967.

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