Sure he does. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is one of the most elusive conditions one can possibly suffer from. It is so elusive that it was only in recent years acknowledged by big medical organizations as a possibly debilitating illness. It is so elusive that there still are specialists who doubt that it even exists. It is so elusive that the diagnosis finally will be based on exclusion – when the doctors checked virtually everything and found nothing, but you are still tired, cannot concentrate and find no relieve neither by rest nor by sleep, than they possibly will conclude it is CFS.

But until then it is a long way to go and a costly one at that, if you don’t have full insurance cover. So many cases of Chronic fatigue Syndrome will eventually go undetected, and the victims likewise be stigmatized for life as lazybones: full resolution of the condition is reported in not more than 10% of the clinically diagnosed cases.

Being elusive on one hand but debilitating and almost incurable on the other, many experts today even demand a renaming, claiming that “Fatigue Syndrome” just sounds too vague and too harmless a name for a condition that clearly threatens a person’s very existence: benign myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome, chronic infectious mononucleosis, epidemic myalgic encephalomyelitis, epidemic neuromyasthenia, myalgic encephalomyelitis, myalgic encephalitis, myalgic encephalopathy, post-viral fatigue syndrome and raphe nucleus encephalopathy are just some of the recently suggested names for CFS.