My drugs

We forgot to pick-up the rest of the pills from the chemist the other day, so I only had enough pills for half my usual dose last night... Today's going to be rough!

This is probably an apt time to explain the treatment plan I'm on explicitly.

My doctor's theory about CFS is that something in the virus I got initially did something to my brain. The virus screwed up the connections between my brain cells, so my brain's telling me that my body's experiencing pain, when there's no reason for it. (My doctor explains it with more medical terms!)

What the drug does is try to fix the connections between my brain cells. The drug's called nortriptyline, which is a tricyclic antidepressant.

In short, I'm on antidepressants, but I'm not being treated for depression.

And yes, antidepressants are sometimes used to treat things other than depression. I'm not just in denial.

My doctor is a specialist in internal medicine, and specifically in chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. He says he's cured a lot of people with CFS with this drug, and generally, people are cured within three to six months. It's been about seven months since I started this treatment. The drug has helped, but I'm nowhere near cured, yet. My doctor says I'm a "difficult case". Let's just hope the drug starts being more effective soon.