My husband has had what one doc called a "mystery illness" all his life. No one could ever get a handle on it. He's been called a hypochondriac several times. He's been dealing with it for over 50 years. Symptoms are most chronic fatigue and just plain feeling awful. I always know when it hits because he looks pale, drawn and grey. Sometimes it affected him for 3-4 days - other times 3 months. Whenever it hit he just could not function. There was no way he could work. There has never been any place he could turn to. It can be mighty discouraging for both of us and killed us financially.