And, after three weeks, the verdict is ...
Pristiq is a huge improvement over Cymbalta in the side effect department. Huge. Amazing. Phenomenal, even. I could run out of adjectives. And text effects.
In the negative column, it's doing far less for the fibro. In fact, as I'm not flaring and was already on the way out of my latest flare by the time we started the Cymbalta, I'm not sure it's doing anything at all, as I'm pretty much at my baseline achiness. I'm willing to bet that means my APRN will want to up the dose at my next visit, which may or may not put it back in the same side effect ballpark as Cymbalta.
Also, due to scheduling weirdness last week, I got to experience what missing a single dose is like, and holy shit do I never want to do that again. It was like having electric shocks running through me. Scary feeling. Gotta love messing with neurotransmitters. Ugh. Though if the trade off for having it actually handle the fibro is to bring the side effects back, I will insist on tapering off the stuff. I'd rather just go back to taking painkillers as needed, especially since I can still mostly get away with over the counter, and just take milk thistle (which I've started doing anyway) for my poor liver.
Ah well. Off to work with me.
In the negative column, it's doing far less for the fibro. In fact, as I'm not flaring and was already on the way out of my latest flare by the time we started the Cymbalta, I'm not sure it's doing anything at all, as I'm pretty much at my baseline achiness. I'm willing to bet that means my APRN will want to up the dose at my next visit, which may or may not put it back in the same side effect ballpark as Cymbalta.
Also, due to scheduling weirdness last week, I got to experience what missing a single dose is like, and holy shit do I never want to do that again. It was like having electric shocks running through me. Scary feeling. Gotta love messing with neurotransmitters. Ugh. Though if the trade off for having it actually handle the fibro is to bring the side effects back, I will insist on tapering off the stuff. I'd rather just go back to taking painkillers as needed, especially since I can still mostly get away with over the counter, and just take milk thistle (which I've started doing anyway) for my poor liver.
Ah well. Off to work with me.