What Causes or Triggers Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

Millions of people ask the question, “What Causes or Triggers Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?” With millions of people wanting to know, surely there are some answers out there. If you read the better scientific research material, doctors and scientists believe there may be multiple triggers that take an individual down the path of this kind of sickness, but not one individual cause. How do we reconcile this?

Cause is a word that immediately makes us think of the whole process: cause and result. Example: a susceptible person runs into the chicken pox virus and comes down with chicken pox. A person has a bad fall down stairs and ends up with a broken leg. Now, that’s cause and result. If and until a cause (or causes) for the illnesses are located, they do not exist for all practical purposes. Many people believe they never will.

Trigger is a much more mysterious word, particularly when the subject you’re talking about is Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Imagine gathering 100 sufferers in the same room and ask them all to name a “cause” of their illness. Few people would claim to know what caused them to be so ill (because there are no known causes). But if you asked the question a different way and inquired about what they think “triggered” their illness, a lot of people could come up with something.

1. Ongoing, unremitting stress
2. Enduring allergies, recurrent sinus and/or chest/lung infections
3. Acute illness (e.g. from a viral or parasitic attack or something like a heart attack)
4. Undergoing an operation or long stay in the hospital
5. Being an accident victim, such as from a car wreck
6. Going through a divorce or emotional upheaval with a loved one
7. Getting fired from a job or being out of work for a long time
8. Enduring abuse or TRAUMA of any kind (e.g. emotional, mental, physical, spiritual or sexual abuse)

These are all hot button triggers. In looking at how these conditions manifest less-than-perfect health in different people in different ways, it’s no wonder that with Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, people exhibit different signs, and symptoms– one person to the next! It’s also why scientists are not coming up with one cause.

I believe that there is no one cause.

So if you’re waiting for the magic answer to come along, telling you the one cause of why you got to ill and what you should do about it, you may be waiting a long time… maybe forever. The key to conquering these illnesses is to address the illness triggers, work on healing the damage done to you by them and then readjust your lifestyle so that you won’t be as susceptible to them in the future.

Most people can lead a healthier and happier life. My guest on the Friday, Health Matters Show will certainly have a lot to say about this topic. I’m proud to announce an interview with the renowned physician, scientist, educator and author of more than 25 books, Dr. C. Norman Shealy.

You can hear the podcast (shorter version) of this interview here on Friday, June 11, 2010, at the Health Matters Show. However, if you want every scrap of material, every tiny tidbit of the surely priceless information that Dr. Shealy will reveal about Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, you need to sign up for my teleseminar list- NOW! I promise that if your name is on the list, you will get access to the entire interview. You will have it automatically on Friday. Yes, that’s right. Just sign up on the list and the interview is “free”!!!

Note- if you’re already on the list, you’ll get it automatically. You don’t have to sign up again.

So, sign up right this minute and mark your calendar for Friday. This is gonna’ be good!

Thanks, Cinda Crawford
Host of the Health Matters Show

PS- feel free to Tweet this or send it to your friends so that can get in on this good interview, too. Friday will be here soon

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