Twelve years ago, I remember a conversation with my neurosurgeon during a follow-up visit after an accident-related sacroiliac joint fusion surgery, where I subsequently also broke several vertebrae.

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) can cause extreme fatigue in up to 80 percent of people with this autoimmune condition.An invisible but often debilitating exhaustion, fatigue ...

Christine Miserandino coined the term "spoon theory" in 2003 while sitting in a diner with a friend. Miserandino wanted to explain what it felt like living with lupus — a chronic, autoimmune disease.