mental health improvements

[inhumandecency]

A couple of weeks ago I finally made some changes to my medications, which had been kind of inadequate for a long time. I went down on wellbutrin, up on my stimulants, and started taking cymbalta, an SSNRI. The change has been very noticeable. I went from sometimes spending whole days sitting around, bewildered as to why I couldn't do any work, to

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[motive_nuance]

A quick search doesn't turn up a lot of positive material about cymbalta. Why did you and your psychiatrist choose it?

[inhumandecency]

Yeah, that's what I found too! It was not at all encouraging. Though euziere says she knows just about as many people who are doing well on cymbalta as on any other non-generic drug.

My psychiatrist is a little too far into the "you might as well throw darts at a board" school of pharmacotherapy, though he's right that there's been little success matching specific antidepressants to specific nuances of conditions. But I think we went with this one because SSNRIs are supposed to be less sedating than the SSRIs, and that was a big problem back when I was on citalopram.

[tanac]

I'm on Cymbalta at the moment (first round of tx for potential fibro-related "idiopathic pain disorder" *sigh*), and I'm hating it with a hatey-hate, but my doc tells me it can be up to 3 months to see the pain-related effects. So I'm sticking with it for now. But the chronic sleeplessness, nausea (after eating), and other S-related side effects are getting really, really old.

Yay for getting stuff done, though. Cym's not touching that with a ten-foot pole.

[dragonpaws]

I appreciate reading your posts on mental health (or the lack thereof)! What you're describing sounds very familiar. I'm glad the current meds are helping out.