{"id":9725,"date":"2026-03-30T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9725"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:25:58","slug":"common-antidepressant-can-treat-long-covid-fatigue-symptoms-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/common-antidepressant-can-treat-long-covid-fatigue-symptoms-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Common antidepressant can treat long COVID fatigue symptoms: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common and low-cost antidepressant can successfully treat fatigue associated with long COVID, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Co-led by researchers from McMaster University in Ontario, the study found that the drug fluvoxamine, which is commonly sold under the name Luvox, significantly reduced fatigue symptoms in a clinical trial of 399 adults with long COVID. It is one of the first times a medication has been shown to effectively treat the condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important step forward for patients who have been desperate for evidence\u2011based options,\u201d senior author and McMaster University professor Edward Mills said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFluvoxamine showed consistent and meaningful benefits, and because it\u2019s already widely used and well understood, it has clear potential for clinical use.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common and low-cost antidepressant can successfully treat fatigue associated with long COVID, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Co-led by researchers from McMaster University in Ontario, the study found that the drug fluvoxamine, which is commonly sold under the name Luvox, significantly reduced fatigue symptoms in a clinical trial of 399 adults with long COVID. It is one of the first times a medication has been shown to effectively treat the condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important step forward for patients who have been desperate for evidence\u2011based options,\u201d senior author and McMaster University professor Edward Mills said in a news release.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/common-antidepressant-can-treat-long-covid-fatigue-symptoms-study\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Common antidepressant can treat long COVID fatigue symptoms: study<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,30,1415,777,11,199,88,119,8,14],"class_list":["post-9725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-fatigue","tag-fluvoxamine","tag-hamilton-region","tag-long-covid","tag-mcmaster-university","tag-medical-treatments","tag-ontario","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9726,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}