Alcohol : How Badly Can It Affect CFS Sufferers?

Written by Claire Williams


Copyright, Claire Williams, 2004. All Rights Reserved.

The wonders of alcohol.

The achilles heel for many people. The 'norm' for some others. And poison if you have CFS/PVFS/M.E....

I remember when I first got Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome/CFS back in 1995, I thought that having a drink or two wouldn't affect me any differently to my PRE-CFS days.

Unfortunately I didn't realise what I was doing to myself.I didn't know how badly alcohol can affectrepparttar severity of CFS...

Nowadays I don't touch alcohol at all, and haven't done so for a few years now. I'd rather see at least a few hours inrepparttar 114976 day instead of being bedridden for weeks on end because of one alcoholic drink!

Because when you have CFS/M.E., you might as well be pouring arsenic down your throat...

------SIDE NOTE------- Okay - so that comparison might be a little 'dramatic', but you get what I mean right? ------SIDE NOTE-------

You see when you have CFS/M.E., you are likely to develop **alcohol intolerance**...

The smallest alcoholic drink - even a tiny bit, can send you into a relapse - as I learntrepparttar 114977 hard way many years ago.

Having an alcoholic drink now and again was enough to tiprepparttar 114978 severity of my CFS overrepparttar 114979 edge and put me in bed indefinitely.

When a **normal** person gets drunk they may feel a bit bad for a day or so, after which, they're back to 'normal', bouncing back and raring to go.

But when a person with M.E./CFS gets drunk - or even has just one drink, they're likely to feel like 'death warmed up' for what seems like an eternity!!!

Personally, I don't actually like alcohol much so I don't miss it. But even if I did, I have realised that alcohol no longer makes me feelrepparttar 114980 way it used to before I had CFS...

Drinking alcohol now feels like I'm feeding myself poison, and my body reacts accordingly - i.e. a relapse - and I sufferrepparttar 114981 consequences for a long, long time afterwards.

Unfortunately, us CFS sufferers are just not strong enough to resistrepparttar 114982 poisons of alcohol. So it's unfortunately a case of accepting it, or getting much, much worse.

As Dr Shepherd writes in his book 'Living With M.E.':

"Some people who previously enjoyed and tolerated regular consumption of alcohol without any adverse effects, now find that even small amounts make them extremely unwell." -- p214, Dr Shepherd, 'Living With M.E.' --

Earning Money From Home When You Have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome /Fibromyalgia

Written by Claire Williams


Copyright, Claire Williams, 2004. All Rights Reserved.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome /Fibromyalgia makes you extremely tired, exhausted and weak. It means you only have a fraction ofrepparttar waking hours that most people enjoy - and even those waking hours are often spent feeling exhausted and with brain fog.

But you **can** do something in your day - it just may not be much...

... so all you have to do is 'focus your light' - focus your energy!

Most healthy people have oodles of energy - but many don't focus on anything in particular and so they don't feel that they get anything done.

In essence, many people - healthy or otherwise - sadly lack direction. They lack focus...

Evenrepparttar 114975 tiniest amount of energy - directed every day (or every other day or basically, when you feel well enough) towards a goal - inrepparttar 114976 end, and after time, forms a huge result.

No matter how much energy you have - if you focus that little amount ofrepparttar 114977 energy on working from home - setting up your own project - you will get there. After all...

...repparttar 114978 snail winsrepparttar 114979 race!

It's not a question of:

"But how can I make money? I have nothing to sell!" - that'srepparttar 114980 one objection pretty much every CFS or FM sufferer that I have talked to, initially comes up with.

I say 'initially' because after I've explained to themrepparttar 114981 different ways in which they can make money online, something 'clicks'...

All you need is a computer,repparttar 114982 Internet, and a passion about something. ANYTHING!

We live in a world where knowledge is KING. People are hungry for knowledge - and everyone - EVERYONE - knows something about SOMETHING.

It might be about how to manage 3 kids duringrepparttar 114983 holidays. It might be about your faith in a religion or about spirituality. It might be about your interest in history, pets, makeup, knitting, fishing, model planes, sport, massage, quilting, sewing, gardening, computers, chess, cooking, travelling, cars...

You might know about ways to entertain toddlers and young kids (for baby-sitters and young mothers). You might know about how to be super organised - or maybe you're good with numbers?

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