Tagamet for CFIDS (Denn)
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill for
- several years
- Published
- Jan 2010
Summary
Replying in the same thread, Denn reports a "consistent lessening of the intensity" of some symptoms while taking ranitidine, a milder H2-blocker in the same class as cimetidine. The account is brief and the improvement is described as partial rather than dramatic.
What they credit
Credits Antihistamines & MCAS, H2 blockers (famotidine, cimetidine).
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