file.newsgroup.med.58063 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: fibromyalgia
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Craig MacDonald) writes:
>> It may be extremely
>>common, something like 5% of the population. It is treatable with
>>tricyclic antidepressant-type drugs (Elavil, Pamelor).
>
>Why is it treated with antidepressants? Is it considered a
>psychogenic condition?
No. That these drugs happen to be useful as antidepressants is neither
here nor there.
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Steve Dyer
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