A Guide to Self-Empowerment By William Collinge, Ph.D. Table of Contents Audiotape Program Chapter 2. It was like I was in a coma. These statements are an example of the extremes this syndrome encompasses.
Few diseases have as diverse an array of symptoms.
There have been many attempts to describe the symptom picture in CFS, and the subject is complicated by the fact that there are such tremendous differences among individuals with the syndrome. Another example is that in some people the fatigue is not necessarily the most prominent symptom. They may have a great deal of cognitive disturbance, however. For someone else, fatigue may be disabling, while relatively little cognitive disturbance is present. While onset is generally acute with the above symptoms, in a few cases it has begun with another illness, or some other stressor such as pregnancy.