Headache
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Headaches of a new type, pattern, or severity occur commonly in ME/CFS.
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Prevalence
- Katrina Berne, PhD, reports a prevalence of 75-95% for headache, and 50% for daily headache.[1]
- In a 2001 Belgian study, 87.8% of patients meeting the Fukuda criteria and 92.0% of patients meeting the Holmes criteria, in a cohort of 2073 CFS patients, reported headaches.[2]
Symptom recognition
- In the Canadian Consensus Criteria, pain is a required criteria for diagnosis. It requires that "there is a significant degree of myalgia. Pain can be experienced in the muscles, and/or joints, and is often widespread and migratory in nature. Often there are significant headaches of new type, pattern or severity."[3]
- In the Fukuda criteria, the symptom of headaches of a new type, pattern, or severity can be used to help form a diagnosis.[4]
- In the Holmes criteria, generalized headaches (of a type, severity, or pattern that is different from headaches the patient may have had in the premorbid state) are an optional criteria for diagnosis, under the section Minor Symptom Criteria.[5]
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References
- ↑ Berne, Katrina (December 1, 1995), Running on Empty: The Complete Guide to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFIDS), 2nd ed., Hunter House, p. 59, ISBN 978-0897931915
- ↑ De Becker, P; McGregor, N; De Meirleir, K (September 2001), "A definition-based analysis of symptoms in a large cohort of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.", Journal of Internal Medicine, 250 (3): 234-240, PMID 11555128
- ↑ A Clinical Case Definition and Guidelines for Medical Practitioners: An Overview of the Canadian Consensus Document Pg 8. 2005.
- ↑ The CDC (Fukuda 1994) Definition for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- ↑ The 1988 Holmes Definition for CFS
