Years of ME/CFS with exhaustion and brain fog, recovered after duloxetine
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill before improving or writing
- a number of years
- Last post
- Feb 2022
In their words
- Condition: ME/CFS
a few years ago I had chronic fatigue
In context ↗ - Now: Recovered
I had chronic fatigue with brain fog years ago Duloexetine was a game changer for me.
In context ↗ - Began after: another virus
Nobody knew the cause beyond ‘perhaps some kind of virus??’
- Says they never had: Anxiety & low mood
I was neither depressed nor anxious
- Says they never had: Loss of smell or taste
my sense of taste and smell were never effected
Summary
Lynx 57938 had chronic fatigue for a number of years, with exhaustion, brain fog and shortness of breath; no cause was found beyond a suspected virus. After years of seeing specialists, duloxetine worked practically overnight, and they stayed on it for about a year, later calling it a game changer. They described the illness in the past tense in later posts.
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What they tried
What they credit
Their words about each treatment
- Duloxetine · Helped a lot
It worked! And it worked practically over night!
In context ↗
Approaches: SNRIs
Their path
What they say at each step doesn’t fit the worst point or outcome above on the severity scale, so the steps are listed as they describe them. Dates are when they posted.
| When | What happened | After |
|---|---|---|
| a few years before July 2021 | chronic fatigue began, cause unknowna few years ago I had chronic fatigueIn context ↗ | |
| before July 2021 | duloxetine worked almost overnight and they stayed on it about a yearIt worked! And it worked practically over night!In context ↗ | Duloxetine (Cymbalta) |
| 2022-02-26 | still called duloxetine a game changer, illness described as years agoI had chronic fatigue with brain fog years ago Duloexetine was a game changer for meIn context ↗ |
Symptoms mentioned
Their words about their symptoms
- Breathlessness
shortness of breath
In context ↗
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