I take cymbalta, have for a couple of years now. If you have any questions, please let me know.
To be honest? I think it might be good for you. It would probably take the edge off some of the anxiety you've been dealing with. It doesn't 'alter' me in any way, but it's like it increases the size of my coping bucket, if that makes sense. lol. I can deal with things more easily without flipping out or feeling overwhelmed.
As far as tapering, yes there are some issues if you start missing pills. Although I can miss a day without any real issues. Weight gain. Hm. Well, I have a lot of other issues that screw with that. The female kind. So I can't speak to it readily. I do know my mom actually lost weight while taking it, though.
The neuro said I should look into getting into a support group but I told her I already HAD one with my online friends.
The support boards out there make Cymbalta sound like a horrible thing with the weight gain and feeling fuzzy, like the Prednisone withdrawal shit I went through.
Ugh, I'm not a big fan of support groups. But I'm usually not too shy about talking if I need to. Be it with online friends, local friends or just my mom. I think you may be the same way so I'm not sure it's really necessary.
The only thing that makes me feel fuzzy is the fact that I sleep deprive myself. I love getting off work at 3pm, but getting up at 5 tends to make me try and run on not enough sleep. ~_~ But I have ups and downs, highs and lows. I'm not in a permanent valium fugue or anything. It just makes it easier to re-center myself instead of swinging wildly between the ends of the pendulum. I don't take it for neuropathy, but I have a tendency towards Plantar fasciitis and that doesn't bother me at all when I'm on my meds.
Thanks for letting me know your dose! That's what she had originally planned for me but after talking to her today I'm not going to take any, especially since I'm not really in any serious pain at the moment.
All of YOU are my support group. Your feedback has helped.
sounds like we need to plan a dolly meet in Richardson (even a mini one) so you can get your dolly fix. ^_^
As for medical issues, I have some new meds I'm taking that give me crazy nausea so half the time I refuse to take it. So I can kinda empathize with crap side effects from medicine. I am quite surprised that the docs said physical therapy wont help you. I can ask my mom (a speech pathologist who works closely with PTs and OTs) if she knows of anything that PTs or OTs do for patients with chronic pain.
BTW my mom (63) also takes Cymbalta and let me tell you, its like night and day! She's bipolar but it really helped with the cycling and certainly enabled her to handle problems better. This is after her trying Lithium, Prozak and Welbutrin (sp?).
I don't think she experienced any weight gain, of course when she was in her lows she'd comfort eat so if anything I'm sure the Cymbalta helped deter that. ^^;
I wouldn't use Cymbalta for depression but for pain, which makes me very leary. Prednisone is for pain and it's evil incarnate. I think the Pred side-effects while on it helped kick this into gear and the withdrawal just made the neuropathy kick in.
I'll ask my mom about Tapping and the Nerve Support Forumla. She's been in her field for nearly 40 years so I'm sure she's heard of SOMETHING for chronic pain.
Let me know when and where you'd like a meet up! The dolly market idea steamed from you actually. ^_^ I hope you can either come to the one in March or one of the later ones.
Well if it comforts you at all, when you have to move again you know some good people to call upon. ^_^
First of all {{{Hug}}} I took Cymbalta for a couple of years, but have stopped recently. The tapering wasn't bad. If you take any medication for migraines, there are some it is incompatible with. It really helped me when I started using it, I couldn't focus or cope at all. It helped me find that place where I could organize my thoughts and do what I needed to do. Without Cymbalta, I don't think I would ever have been able to start writing again and my soul needs to write. Before Cymbalta, I had gotten to the point that I couldn't even read a novel; I couldn't focus well enough to keep track of the plot. I was drowning in all the tiny decisions of dailylife; Cymbalta was my lifesaver.
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To be honest? I think it might be good for you. It would probably take the edge off some of the anxiety you've been dealing with. It doesn't 'alter' me in any way, but it's like it increases the size of my coping bucket, if that makes sense. lol. I can deal with things more easily without flipping out or feeling overwhelmed.
As far as tapering, yes there are some issues if you start missing pills. Although I can miss a day without any real issues. Weight gain. Hm. Well, I have a lot of other issues that screw with that. The female kind. So I can't speak to it readily. I do know my mom actually lost weight while taking it, though.
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The neuro said I should look into getting into a support group but I told her I already HAD one with my online friends.
The support boards out there make Cymbalta sound like a horrible thing with the weight gain and feeling fuzzy, like the Prednisone withdrawal shit I went through.
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Ugh, I'm not a big fan of support groups. But I'm usually not too shy about talking if I need to. Be it with online friends, local friends or just my mom. I think you may be the same way so I'm not sure it's really necessary.
The only thing that makes me feel fuzzy is the fact that I sleep deprive myself. I love getting off work at 3pm, but getting up at 5 tends to make me try and run on not enough sleep. ~_~ But I have ups and downs, highs and lows. I'm not in a permanent valium fugue or anything. It just makes it easier to re-center myself instead of swinging wildly between the ends of the pendulum. I don't take it for neuropathy, but I have a tendency towards Plantar fasciitis and that doesn't bother me at all when I'm on my meds.
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All of YOU are my support group. Your feedback has helped.
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As for medical issues, I have some new meds I'm taking that give me crazy nausea so half the time I refuse to take it. So I can kinda empathize with crap side effects from medicine. I am quite surprised that the docs said physical therapy wont help you. I can ask my mom (a speech pathologist who works closely with PTs and OTs) if she knows of anything that PTs or OTs do for patients with chronic pain.
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I don't think she experienced any weight gain, of course when she was in her lows she'd comfort eat so if anything I'm sure the Cymbalta helped deter that. ^^;
If you have any questions I can ask her. ^_^
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Let me know when and where you'd like a meet up! The dolly market idea steamed from you actually. ^_^ I hope you can either come to the one in March or one of the later ones.
Well if it comforts you at all, when you have to move again you know some good people to call upon. ^_^
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I took Cymbalta for a couple of years, but have stopped recently. The tapering wasn't bad. If you take any medication for migraines, there are some it is incompatible with. It really helped me when I started using it, I couldn't focus or cope at all. It helped me find that place where I could organize my thoughts and do what I needed to do. Without Cymbalta, I don't think I would ever have been able to start writing again and my soul needs to write.
Before Cymbalta, I had gotten to the point that I couldn't even read a novel; I couldn't focus well enough to keep track of the plot. I was drowning in all the tiny decisions of dailylife; Cymbalta was my lifesaver.
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