Open AccessNot what it seems to be: Depression versus periodic limb movement disorder
Author(s) -
Ravi Gupta,
Kaustuv Kundu,
Khwaja Khayyam,
Lokesh Kumar Saini
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/psychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_450_19
Subject(s) - polysomnography , fibromyalgia , depression (economics) , sleep (system call) , physical medicine and rehabilitation , chronic fatigue syndrome , major depressive disorder , insomnia , sleep disorder , medicine , psychiatry , restless legs syndrome , antidepressant , psychology , physical therapy , electroencephalography , mood , anxiety , computer science , economics , macroeconomics , operating system
Sleep disorders often disturb sleep. Daytime symptoms of disturb sleep mimic that of depression, somatoform disorder, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. We are presenting a case of depression who was not responding to antidepressant therapy. Based on clinical history, diagnosis was changed to chronic fatigue syndrome and in view of prominent sleep disturbances, polysomnography was done. Based on sleep study data, diagnosis of periodic limb movement disorder was made and he was started on ropinirole, that improved his symptoms.