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Totally, interestingly they diagnose the illness with a tilt table in some countries.

I had an inversion table atempting to relieve my thoracic pain at the time of my diagnosis. Which was a diagnosis of exclusion. I was gutted by the chronic diagnosis.

I was lucky that the inversion table allowed me to accept that I had the condition post diagnosis because it definitely triggered fatigue after I’d rest at the tilt angles that trigger fatigue.

The awareness of the tilt test and that delayed fatigue onset were the 2 useful pieces of information I got from the cfs support group I attended 3 times. I accepted my diagnosis quickly as I’d accidentally been doing my own tilt table tests with the inversion table. I also quickly realised that regularly whinging about the condition in a support group of people who accepted that they weren’t going to recover from something that seemed treatable wouldn’t help me.