A couple of years ago I was looking to get into the whole working out phase. Being 18 and not having any real attributes any women would want, I decided it was time to start building some muscle. Everything started out well and I can remember it was around September time when I started.

I was able to carry out the workout program for 4 weeks. Before doomsday happened. I remember it clearly because It was the first time I played live poker. I was thinking it must of been the stress of playing live poker and the inability of my body to be able to recover from the working out that my body just crashed.
I could barely move from fatigue when I arrived home the day after the poker. The next 5 months were hell. Not only was I able to barely stay awake for a couple hours in the day. I felt horrible. I had problems with breathing and eating. If I could describe it, this is how I would:

I felt like a 90 year old man, Any movement in my body would feel so painful. It felt like some 1 was gripping into my muscles with their hands and squeezing. Breathing was a mission in its self. It felt like I was constantly forcing myself to breathe and if I didn't I would stop breathing for about 10 seconds and start up again.
Sleeping was the only positive I had, I was always sleeping.. So I could dream. I never had nightmares which is a silver lining to my illness.
I am not going to lie, it was the worst I have ever felt in my life. I honestly thought I had some disease which was slowly tearing me apart inside. I remember posting on here I think on my other account (I left behind because I was 17 when I made it) asking in the health and fitness forum.

Looking for some 1 to relate to me or know what the hell was wrong with me. I got solid advice, but sadly none of it helped as my doctor tested me for all the things people were suggesting.
I was going to the doctors at the time. The way the System works in the UK is you go to a sort of clinic and there is usually A bunch of doctors and you phone in to make an appointment. So a lot of the time you wouldn't get the same doctor. Sadly there were a couple of fill in doctors that in my opinion were terrible compare to others.
So each time I would go to the DR getting tests done but coming out empty handed. At this time I am thinking the worse, That I had some cancer or something.. But the tests were coming back clear.

So one of the doctors I was seeing frequently sat me down and said "We are really sorry but we just can't find the explanation to your problems. But there is a high chance you have a thing called 'Chronic Fatigue syndrome alongside Fibromyalgia.'

Fibromyalgia is a muscle disease which causes pain throughtout the muscles.

CFS is when you are constantly fatigued throughout the day. There is no real point of evidence that causes CFS and is disregarded by a lot of DRs as being nonsense. DRs that do believe in it say that is can be a gluten intolerance or a bug in your system that the body cant deal with. My DR says some people have CFS all there lives and most people see progress within 5 years.


At this point I was thinking to myself, HELL NO Im I going 5 years with this ****. I kept asking here if there was anything I could do. Any foods to take or drugs.. Just make me better. All she could say was time is all you have.
So time progressed and I wasn't getting any better. I would wake up feeling more tired than before. I would search google trying to find any solution. Until I saw something. I am sure you have all read guides that supposedly cure cancer etc but cost money. The ebook scams.

Well this guide was very similar but it was for free and gave a couple of examples of people who beat CFS. I remember reading the one about an Olympic swimmer who won medals at the Olympics only to be stricken by CFS. He told his story which sounded very similar to mine and explained what was the causes behind him being diagnosed.
He then goes onto how he got cured. It was simple. His reasons behind him saying he got CFS was that he overworked his muscles to such a point that the only solution his body had was to shut down. So what you would have to do is slowly start it up again. To do this was to do extremely small parts of exercise daily.

This was the holy grail for me. I started walking. 100m and I would be completely worn out. But i stuck at it. Each couple of days I would get further and further. Of course there were days were I couldn't go out and walk, I would be too tired or in pain. After a while I could walk 1 mile. Then two miles. Then three.
All of a sudden I am getting my energy back. I am starting to feel better. Ever since then I have tried to walk at least 2 miles a day. I have been always very cautious about trying new physical activities. The only reason I started up the training again was because I was feeling in good health.

What scares me is that the same repeat thing has happened. It scares me to think now I am going to have to wait months to feel better. Thankfully this time it does not feel as bad. Unfortunately my breathing has suffered a lot the past couple of days.

I am thinking of going to the doctors on Monday to hopefully sort some things out.