From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: fibromyalgia
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <93Apr5.133521edt.1231@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> craig@cs.toronto.edu (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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