Tired All the Time: cfs

Doctors are only now beginning 1. _____________ chronic fatigue syndrome because there are lots of symptoms that 2. ____________ them. About 1 per cent of the population is suffering from it. Most of them are in their twenties and thirties. This group is more 3. __________ to fatigue because of the 4. __________ of life and stressful factors. There are 5. __________ as many women as men. Women just go to doctors and there’s diagnosed more often.

CFS is hard to diagnose. Sometimes it looks like anything else, for example Lyme disease, depression, hypochondria.

The symptoms of CFS are: 6.___________ aches and fatigue, sore throat, lymph node swelling, muscle aches and weakness, forgetfulness, inability to concentrate and joint pains for 4 to 6 months.

Patients become exhausted from even minimal 7. ____________ . Sometimes they’re 8. ___________ , they can’t get to sleep and feel extreme vertigo. It probably is contagious perhaps because of a 9. ___________ immune system.

Activity, complexity, twice, to study, baffled, flulike, faulty, restless, prone.

Ex. 8. Reproduce the brief-summary on the memory.

Conversation practice

I

Mr. Clark: Good morning! I’d like to make an appointment with Doctor Green, please.

The receptionist: Certainly, sir. Is Friday 11 o’clock convenient for you?

Mr. Clark: Yes, that will be very nice.

The receptionist: And your name, please, sir?

Mr. Clark: My name is Clark.

II

Dr. Green: Good morning, Mr. Clark. What’s wrong with you?

Mr. Clark: I have an awful headache, that I can’t get rid of, Doctor. And my throat seems sore.

Dr. Green: Let me have a look at the throat first, Have you taken your temperature?

Mr. Clark: No, I’m afraid I have not.

Dr. Green: Put this thermometer under your tongue then. /Later/. Yes, you have a slight fever. I’m afraid you are catching the flu.

III

Dr. Green: You must go straight home to bed, and keep warm. Have plenty of hot milk.

Mr. Clark: And no medicine, Doctor?

Dr. Green: Well, I’ll make you a prescription for some medicine that will help to bring your temperature down.

Mr. Clark: And what about my headache?

Dr. Green: If the headache gets too bad you can take two aspirins.

Mr. Clark: Thank you, Doctor. I’ll do as you say. Good buy.

IV

Patient: Doctor, I have a bad headache and I have no appetite.

Doctor: Show me your tongue, please. Yes, you have a very nasty tongue. Have you pain in the stomach?

Patient: Yes, doctor, sometimes; especially after meals. I have a temperature after meals too.

Doctor: I must examine your stomach… Does it hurt here?

Patient: No, not there.

Doctor: Here?

Patient: Oh, yes, it does there.

V

Visitor: I have a very bad toothache. I can’t eat and I can’t sleep at night.

Dentist: Sit down in the chair here and open your mouth. Which tooth is it that hurts you?

Visitor: It, s a big tooth at the back on the left. Ugh! [uh] That hurts very badly.

Dentist: I shall put a filling in this one, but there is another on which is too bad to be filled. I shall have to extract it.

Visitor: Oh, doctor…

Dentist: Don’t be afraid. I shall give you an injection before I extract it.