Chronic Fatigue That Developed After the Flu

There are as many reasons for chronic fatigue as there are people suffering from it. How it started in you is unique to you. It may have started after you recovered from an acute disease. It may have started after a medical procedure, such as an operation or a vaccination. It may have started after you suffered a bad shock, after an accident or after a fright.

One of the most common scenarios for chronic fatigue is after you have recovered from a bad dose of a virus, particularly the flu. It is reckoned that over half chronic fatigue sufferers come from this.

It’s bad enough that you had a bad dose of the flu, without complications afterwards. Especially complications that seem to drag on and on.

You can be so debilitated that you have to give up hobbies and pastimes or even work. Your social and family life suffers as a result. Your partner may not be very sympathetic, thinking you’re putting it on to get those extra hours in bed.

You miss out on your children’s activities because you have no energy either to take an interest in them or to muster up the energy to take them out.

The good news is that there is highly effective and totally natural help at hand.

In the form of homeopathic remedies.

Which you can buy over the counter inexpensively and treat yourself.

The homeopathic remedy Gelsemium is a great candidate for resolving your chronic fatigue if it started after a bad dose of the flu. But your symptoms do have to match those of the remedy to affect a healing.

So lets look at some of the most important keynote symptoms you might have or had during the flu for Gelsemium to work for you.

• never well since the flu or flu vaccination
• a great heaviness, even your head, eyelids and/or tongue feel heavy
• trembling of your arms or legs especially after slight exertion
• chills down your back or heat alternating with chills
• you have no desire to drink at all
• headache which is better after you have urinated
• dizziness
• dullness

For any homeopathic remedy to work, you only need three keynote symptoms. Bearing in mind you already have one, the first one, you only have to pick out another two.

Another symptom you probably have is the heaviness or dullness so typical in chronic fatigue.

If you find you’re also dizzy or thirstless, there’s your third keynote symptom.

You can buy some common homeopathic remedies from health shops, homeopaths and homeopathic pharmacies.

For home prescribing, you are limited to the potency (or strength) of the remedies you can purchase. So you should only be able to purchase low potencies, such as a 6c or a 30c. 30c is more powerful than 6c.

Directions will be on the bottle, so follow them. As a general rule, take the 6c twice a day or the 30c once every day or every other day.

Within about a week, you should be noticing some change, if only small. The changes may be subtle, but you should be noticing that you have a bit more energy. If this is the case, carry on. Stop when you have reached your old level of energy.

However, if you don’t see any changes after about a week to 10 days, then you probably didn’t get the symptoms right and Gelsemium is not for you. In which case you should discontinue with the remedy. It won’t help every case of chronic fatigue that developed after a virus. But it will help many.

Chronic Fatigue Can Cause Addison's Disease

Chronic fatigue can develop after a particularly stressful time. This takes a huge toll on your body. If you’re not very healthy to start with, and you don’t address the exhaustion, you can slip into Addison’s Disease.

One of the results of chronic fatigue is your adrenal glands stop working, or work in overdrive. Your adrenal glands are situated on your kidneys and are responsible for a host of healthy bodily functions, including your hormones.

So although it’s a good idea to see your preferred health professional, to get expert advice on how to start treating your chronic fatigue, there are quite a few things you can do yourself.

One of the most important things you can do is to address your diet. Eat lots of fresh fruit and veggies, as much raw as you can. Limit you animal flesh to once or twice a week. Limit all kinds of dairy. And cut out or limit processed food such as sugar, flour, packets and junk food.

This doesn’t mean you can’t have anything sweet, just not processed sugar. Natural sweet foods include fruit, honey, dates, currents, raisins or sultanas.

To naturally supplement your health, it’s a good idea to take a superfood supplement, one that has all the main minerals and vitamins in a natural food based combination, which is easy for your body to absorb and utilise. One such as Crystal Sweet Algae.

Now the next thing most important you need to do is to start to work on that chronic fatigue.

If you are seeing a homoeopath, then that’s wonderful news. So you can skip this bit. If you’re not consulting a homeopath, then you might like to consider taking this remedy. But it’s a good idea to tell your practitioner what you’re doing.

The homeopathic remedy Arsenicum album is found in all home prescribing kits. But for it to work for you, you need to have at least three keynote symptoms.

So here are the keynote symptoms:

• great exhaustion
• restlessness, can’t keep still
• worse time is around midnight to about 2 am
• you have a thirst, but can only sip liquids
• great anxiety, even panic attacks
• desire for company, hates being alone
• cold, better for warmth
• there’s often a digestive disorder, with vomiting or/and diarrhoea or a history of
• symptoms are burning in nature

These symptoms can cover a multitude of conditions, which is why homeopaths don’t get involved in disease labels.

If you struggle to find any of the symptoms beyond your exhaustion or fatigue, this remedy is unlikely to help you. But if you can easily see at least two more symptoms in your condition, this remedy is likely to do wonderful things for you.

And the final step in resolving your chronic fatigue is to ensure you get exercise. Do something you enjoy. And do it on a regular basis. If you don’t enjoy it, you won’t stay with it. An outdoor activity is better than an indoor one, as then you also benefit from fresh air. But the important thing is whatever you do, you look forward to it.