The State of Medicine: If we can’t cure it, you don’t have it!

Chronic fatigue…There is no cure, and no blood test or scan to enable a quick diagnosis.
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However, the findings also contradicted long-held perceptions that chronic fatigue syndrome is a rich white woman’s disease.
 

“…the findings also contradicted long-held perceptions that chronic fatigue syndrome is a rich white woman’s disease.” 

That’s the specificity of MD perception, huh? “Eh, she’s a rich white woman”, case closed! This is outRAGEous.

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Doctors have not been able to pin down a cause, although research suggests it is a body’s prolonged overreaction to an infection or other jolt to the immune system.

“AN infection”, we don’t know what. Or a “jolt”. Whatever, it the body is TOTALLY overreacting! 🙄 

The condition rose to prominence nearly 40 years ago, when clusters of cases were reported in Incline Village, Nevada, and Lyndonville, New York. Some doctors dismissed it as psychosomatic and called it “yuppie flu.”

Yuppie flu!

Some physicians still hold that opinion, experts and patients say.

Doctors “called me a hypochondriac and said it was just anxiety and depression,” said Hannah Powell, a 26-year-old Utah woman who went undiagnosed for five years.

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Dr. Daniel Clauw,

“It’s never, in the U.S., become a clinically popular diagnosis to give because there’s no drugs approved for it. There’s no treatment guidelines for it,” [Dr. Daniel Clauw[, director of the University of Michigan’s Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center] said.

If we can’t cure it, you don’t have it! Typical mm.

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“When I go to the ER or to another doctor’s visit, instead of saying I have chronic fatigue syndrome, I usually say I have long COVID,” Powell said. “And I am believed almost immediately.”