I'm almost 16, and diagnosed with CFS. Basically because they had to rule out everything else. Over that last 2 years (about) I've been expiriencing a lot of health problems. I am a sophmore in high school, and haven't even officially finished freshman year because of all the absences. Actually I've been absent alot since 8th grade. In the beginning I was always sick, sometimes I didn't even think people believed me, but it seemed like almost every day I was nausious, or had terrible headaches, sometimes throwing up, and always tired. I'd expirience bad sleeping patterns also. For example, say one night I feel asleep at 10, and the next morning I couldn't wake up until 1 in the afternoon, or else I would feel like crap. Then other times, I could go all night without sleeping, and still be hyper the following day. It went on like that for a while. So I got a bunch of tests done and nothing really came up, so after a lot of time went by, they dianosed it as Chronic Fatigue. People would get frustrated with me, I knew my mom was frustrated. Even my friends would get pissed off when I wouldn't show up, sometimes wouldn't even talk to me. That was another extremely agrivating thing because they had no idea what I was going through. I got all my absences excused because of the doctors diagnosis and a special ed. plan because of it, at the end of last year. Now, I'm at the end of this school year, my health is better, and I'm taking medication to control my sleeping patterns, which seems to work well. I'm still going through crap with the school, because I started missing school again in the beginning of the year, that I just missed so much that it was hard to want to go back after so much time. They're suppose to supply me with the neccisary help I need to be able to finish my classes and get enough credits to graduate in 2 years, but they aren't exactly holding up their side of the bargin. At least now I'm getting support from everyone because they understand my situation. Except the school who have they're own arrogant and dense ideas about it all. I need tutors to help me with the work since I'm not currently IN school. Anyway, my whole CFS expirience has sometimes been hell for me and everyone else to go through, but I'm trying to get it together. I hope everyone else with the same problem is coping, and if you think you might have CFS, you should talk to your doctor asap. Anyway, I just felt like sharing, so good luck.

Hi Bluedove and hopefully you'll be back to feeling great in no time. I'm not sure about your diet plus your in school ever try researching vitamins? If you look on the web
and look at each vitamin I'm sure it will help you.By eating good healthy nutritious
foods it can only help you.Don't have too much time to peel all that fruit before you
go to school,just take some vitamin supplements with you and gulp down some tomato juice or better yet buy yourself a juicer and store some juice in the fridge so
you can drink a few glasses before you go to school. Increase your intake of fruits and vitamins and such it will hopefully help you
plus you'll be full of energy.Also you may need to get more exercise to get your metablolism going,hope this helps.

HI BlueDove
I was also 16 when i was dx with CF. The doctors however mis diagnosed me because my hormones where outta watck! I would recoment you to see another doctor. I had one doctor tell me that I had CF and another one said i would out-grow it! And I did. Im now going to be 20 and I finnished my first year in Collge as a nursing student!
I would again recomend you to see another doctor, try vitamins and join a board like this one but only for kids/teenagers with CF symdrome!
Good Luck!
HUGS