CFS doesn't necessarily rule out the bipolar either, but it does mean that there are other things that need taking care of. When i worked at the pain rehab, we had people who suffered from bipolar among other things with problems like bipolar and CFS. In fact, sometimes things like Bipolar in the background can make you more sensitive to conditions like CFS, or life experiences like trauma or prolonged stress can contibute to both. Same with Fibromyalgia and other problems that concern pain and pain perception and mood disorders.

People are complicated. Very few of us only have one type of problem, and very few of our problems don't affect our other problems. That us seems to be the way we work. I hope that they can figure out how to best untangle the particular skeing of thread that has you so frustrated right now. Yep, docs aren't always the most socially gifted bunch of folks, sad to say. Life would be so much easier if they were. HUGGGGSSSSSSS!