ME/CFS South Australia Inc: How To Navigate College With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

ME/CFS SOUTH AUSTRALIA INC

Registered Charity 3104

Email:
sacfs@sacfs.asn.au

Mailing address:
PO Box 322,
Modbury North,
South Australia 5092

Phone:
1300 128 339

Office Hours:
Monday - Friday,
10am - 4pm
(phone)

ME/CFS South Australia Inc supports the needs of sufferers of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and related illnesses. We do this by providing services and information to members.

ME/CFS South Australia Inc aims to keep members informed of various research projects, diets, medications, therapies, news items, etc. All communication, both verbal and written, is merely to disseminate information and not to make recommendations or directives.

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How To Navigate College With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Wednesday 18 September 2019

How To Navigate College With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

9 Strategies to help you cope with college when you have ME/CFS

By Rachel Horton
ProHealth.com
September 12, 2019
Copyright © 2019 ProHealth, Inc. All rights reserved.

I entered college in the fall of 2010, after having ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome) for about two years. I threw myself into difficult classes, signed up for extracurriculars, and did my best to live like a normal college student, despite my ME/CFS symptoms. The strategy worked for a few weeks, until I could no longer run on adrenaline. I found myself floundering mid-semester, trying to balance an intense class schedule while managing a chronic illness.

By the second semester, I realized my strategy of not telling my professors about my serious health problems and then scrambling to catch up on material when I started missing classes was a serious mistake. I eventually learned how to balance school and still keep up with my ME/CFS treatments, and the rest of my college experience was dramatically different. You don’t have to compromise your health in pursuit of academic success.