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HI, @notaround - thanks very much for this update.

Since you are talking about a stimulant being prescribed for you next to boost your energy for self-care, it would be great if you could post about your experiences with that medication. Do you know what you will be taking?

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Provigil. It's used for narcolepsy and staring to be used now for chronic fatigue syndrome. It's the next thing to try if duloxetine doesn't work.

I wish the fatigue was from the venlafaxine. Then it would go away once it works its way out. I knew it was a possibility. But I've had issues with fatigue pretty much always, since I was an adult. I started to fall apart completely at 18.

In my freshman year of college, before even my first antidepressant, I was sleeping about 14 hours a day. So it isn't any one medication. I'm staring down the probable diagnosis of CFS. But it's a diagnosis of exclusion.

Sorry for rambling. I've rewritten this post a few times now and it keeps coming out too long.