One week remission with an SSRI?
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Dec 2018
Summary
Citalopram 10mg (raised to 20mg after a week) was followed by "all my CFS/ME symptoms had disappeared, the whole suite of them" for about a week. A week later "all those missing symptoms piled back on," triggering a two-day crash before stabilizing back at the pre-SSRI baseline -- a clean, explicitly temporary full remission that fully reversed.
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