For those of you who aren’t familiar, chronic fatigue syndrome/M.E. is actually considered to be a neurological disorder by the world health organisation. It’s given the ICD code 10, G93.3, but it remains a medically unexplained condition. It’s recognised as being physiologically distinct from depression, and there are emerging, identifiable, immunological, neurological, endocrine, and particularly, autonomic, abnormalities.
“For those of you who are not clinically familiar with CFS/ME or haven’t actually met a patient with this condition, it’s a diagnosis where a constellation of symptoms come together. They are heterogeneous in their nature, usually, but the individual usually has severe, debilitating fatigue for at least four months – together with other symptoms.
“At the moment, and we may come to debate this throughout this meeting, there’s no evidence of other medical or psychiatric problems, although patients do experience secondary psychiatric or mental health issues as a consequence of the significance and the severity of the symptoms that they are experiencing.
