Posted by Lia Mason on January 28, 2003, at 22:09:22
In reply to Re: CHRONIC FATIGUE, posted by cooper on January 28, 2003, at 16:59:21
I had chronic fatigue for almost 3 years and no antidepressant helped. I tried many including moclobemide. Finally I was hospitalized for depression, took prozac, and slowly got better. I must point out, though, that I took prozac during the first year I was ill and it did nothing. I had high titers for a virus called Epstein Barr. This is controversial because many, many people who are perfectly well will test positive for this. I think I got the virus and my body fought it and then had trouble getting the message to stop the fight. This was almost 10 years ago. I'm fine now. At the time, the expert in the US was a doctor named Paul Cheney. You might search the web and see if he's published anything recently. You have my sincere sympathy. Chronic Fatigue was a nightmare. But I got out so there is certainly hope. I'm still treated for depression as I was before I got sick, but I know the difference. I remember explaining at the time that for me depression is "I can't think of anything that would make me happy" and chronic fatigue was "there are all these things that would make me happy but I don't have the strength to do them."
Lia
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