The medical profession is really bad in treating mental illness and chronic fatigue.

The initial signs of Magee’s Delayed Altitude Complications were a panic disorder followed a few years later with fatigue, confusion and forgetfulness.

It took several months of being on a gluten free diet before I started to see chronic fatigue reactions to pizza, tempura and fruit drinks that would last several hours.

The absolute worst thing that you can say to a person that suffers with chronic fatigue: It is all in your head.

Most high altitude workers experienced fatigue after descending to sea level at the end of the work day. No one appeared to know what it was and I now call it ‘Descent Fatigue’.

My suspicion about what causes Descent Fatigue in high altitude workers is related to reperfusion of thickened hypoxic blood.

It was common for sea level adapted staff to report tiredness and fatigue daily after returning to sea level from the high altitude mountain observatory.

In 2018 I became aware through dietary changes that I was Gluten, Fructose and Lactose intolerant and was experiencing several hours of chronic fatigue after eating certain foods, which is consistent with Reactive or Functional Hypoglycemia.