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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)Is a recently designated semidisease, often attributed to EBV (the Epstein Barr virus) or CMV (Cytomegalovirus) infections, characterized by fuos (Fevers of Unknown Origin) and resulting in the patient suffering FLS (Feels Like Shit). In most of us, the microorganisms involved in CFS usually provoke nothing more than a head cold; in some individuals, however, they induce a long, grinding, and debilitating disorder, characterized by exhaustion, depression, periodic fevers...a crazyquilt of symptoms that frustrates both the sufferer and the sometimes skeptical physician. MCCOY (Multiple Chemical Sensitivities) are another syndrome that is often lumped with CFS, and they may often be two faces of the same condition. I am not using all these acronyms to mock the conditions, but in irony. There is too much ASS(Acronym Safety Syndrome) in medicine, reducing complex and frustrating conditions to insider's technobabble, somehow therein trivializing otherwise complex, painful and crazymaking problems. The widest use of acronyms (AIDS, HIV, CFS, MCCOY, MS etc.) Seems to be for diseases hardest to treat, least responsive to procedural medicine, and most depressing to discuss with patients or survivors.
