It is very curious, to say the least, how doctors minimize side effects. If you take the medicine and feel bad, you are almost forced to continue until you "feel good" on the medicine, and in the meantime, you may be doing irreparable damage to the body. No doctor says, if you feel bad, stop taking the medicine. One does not know if it is for the good of the patient or for the good of the pharmaceutical laboratory.
Thank you for your feedback. Unfortunately there is no good medicine. At the end of the day they are all chemicals and we should not consider any of those medication to be absolutely safe. We use this medication in medical necessity. Obviously some of the side effects including nausea and vomiting is temporary and some patients will get used to it and some of the side effects are more dangerous and we recommend patients to stop it I would recommend that that you have a conversation with your doctor if you’re having side effects from your medication
The analgesic properties of most antidepressants for chronic pain (excluding neuropathic pain) is actually quite poor. Most recent studies, which have larger sample sizes and better methodologies (such as follow ups after treatment) have shown that antidepressants are barely better than placebo.
I take 60 mg Cymbalta and if I also take 7.5 mg of MELOXICAM an hour before work I can get a 50% reduction in pain and work up to 5 hours now❕ I had to take Zofran while titrations from 20 to 60 mg because of failed attempts due to nausea . I slept all the time but stuck with it because I was determined to get out of so much pain. Eventually the nausea subsided and ended Zofran. My pain 4 months in was still life altering and I asked for Meloxicam because my CRP was high and I needed something for chronic inflammation., during work hours. The two together worked well. I have Fibromyalgia, osteo arthritis and gout ( I take febuxamat ), and osteoporosis. I work part time as a hair colorist and live alone with my Dalmatian. I am in bed to rest my joints often and my sleep is still very disordered. My DNA is bla-27 positive and I have some fusion in my neck and kyphosis. I don’t understand why opioids were outlawed for respectable citizens with true pain and no past addiction history.
Hi , im currently back on Duloxetine , its works well depression wise ,but not with my OCD its far worse consstant looping of thoughts and difficult too filter out fear,or concentrate. ive been on an array of different meds and im highly sensetive to most and been taken off so many as it effects my cognetive side more ,less the physical. Thank you.
Anti depressants have to many side effects and not enough benefit for my liking. I have had fibromyalgia for over 28 years and iam not a believer in anti depressants. I take gabapentin 400 mg twice a day it helps my fibromyalgia
Sir I am being afraid of Cymbalta taking due to their liver and blurred vision side effects. Sir how to start Cymbalta please guide me?. How to take Cymbalta to minimize side effects such as Liver damage and blurred vision problems. I'm very much.Please guide me
Starting Cymbalta could be challenging. Obviously the recommendation would be to have a conversation with your doctor regarding this. If you feel you’re having side effects including their division you should that perhaps started on a very low dose 20 mg a day and slowly increase that
@@pvtruestmusic, around 8 months... The side effects never really settled and the myoclonic seizures which were identified as epilepsy started as I was began to taper off that medication.
@@michaelbryant2090, yes. I took it for almost 9 months despite the side effects. I told the psychiatrist how bad the side effects were and she just instructed me to take it at night. They lessened in intensity but never really went away. Around month 6, family members kicked up drama that only got worse when another family member died and there was a diagnosis of a terminal illness in a second family member. The drama was the culmination of extreme psychological abuse, in part perpetrated by a psychiatrist older sibling of mine. I had to switch psychiatrists and the week of the diagnosis of the illness, I had two emotional outbursts (they are always provoked) and I had my first seizure. But my new/current psychiatrist and I thought they were brain zaps. He tapered me off the Cymbalta from that September but by the following January I was still having the brain zaps. Due to managing the situation around the ill family member by myself and other typical delays, I only got to see a neurologist in April. The MRI was clear but he called me back for a follow up that June, with an abnormal EEG. It indicated left temporal lobe epilepsy and I didn't have a noticeable seizure during the EEG.
It is very curious, to say the least, how doctors minimize side effects. If you take the medicine and feel bad, you are almost forced to continue until you "feel good" on the medicine, and in the meantime, you may be doing irreparable damage to the body. No doctor says, if you feel bad, stop taking the medicine. One does not know if it is for the good of the patient or for the good of the pharmaceutical laboratory.
Thank you for your feedback. Unfortunately there is no good medicine. At the end of the day they are all chemicals and we should not consider any of those medication to be absolutely safe. We use this medication in medical necessity.
Obviously some of the side effects including nausea and vomiting is temporary and some patients will get used to it and some of the side effects are more dangerous and we recommend patients to stop it
I would recommend that that you have a conversation with your doctor if you’re having side effects from your medication
The analgesic properties of most antidepressants for chronic pain (excluding neuropathic pain) is actually quite poor. Most recent studies, which have larger sample sizes and better methodologies (such as follow ups after treatment) have shown that antidepressants are barely better than placebo.
I take 60 mg Cymbalta and if I also take 7.5 mg of MELOXICAM an hour before work I can get a 50% reduction in pain and work up to 5 hours now❕ I had to take Zofran while titrations from 20 to 60 mg because of failed attempts due to nausea . I slept all the time but stuck with it because I was determined to get out of so much pain. Eventually the nausea subsided and ended Zofran. My pain 4 months in was still life altering and I asked for Meloxicam because my CRP was high and I needed something for chronic inflammation., during work hours. The two together worked well. I have Fibromyalgia, osteo arthritis and gout ( I take febuxamat ), and osteoporosis. I work part time as a hair colorist and live alone with my Dalmatian. I am in bed to rest my joints often and my sleep is still very disordered. My DNA is bla-27 positive and I have some fusion in my neck and kyphosis. I don’t understand why opioids were outlawed for respectable citizens with true pain and no past addiction history.
Thank you for sharing your story and I hope you feel better soon
If this is used as a painkiller does that mean its basically an opiod rebadged as an snri?
Great question this is not an opioid pain medication, this is an antidepressant that had pain relief properties
Hi , im currently back on Duloxetine , its works well depression wise ,but not with my OCD its far worse consstant looping of thoughts and difficult too filter out fear,or concentrate. ive been on an array of different meds and im highly sensetive to most and been taken off so many as it effects my cognetive side more ,less the physical. Thank you.
Thank you for your feedback
Anti depressants have to many side effects and not enough benefit for my liking. I have had fibromyalgia for over 28 years and iam not a believer in anti depressants. I take gabapentin 400 mg twice a day it helps my fibromyalgia
Thank you for your feedback you are absolutely right sometimes the antidepressant does not help with fibromyalgia pain.
Sir I am being afraid of Cymbalta taking due to their liver and blurred vision side effects.
Sir how to start Cymbalta please guide me?. How to take Cymbalta to minimize side effects such as Liver damage and blurred vision problems. I'm very much.Please guide me
Starting Cymbalta could be challenging. Obviously the recommendation would be to have a conversation with your doctor regarding this. If you feel you’re having side effects including their division you should that perhaps started on a very low dose 20 mg a day and slowly increase that
It caused my fibromyalgia Doc. I couldn’t walk for 9 years. Off it now and can walk and totally pain free.😢😂
Pretty sure this was the med with the worst side-effects I've ever tried. And probably triggered epilepsy.
Thank you for your feedback
How long you was on it
@@pvtruestmusic, around 8 months... The side effects never really settled and the myoclonic seizures which were identified as epilepsy started as I was began to taper off that medication.
@@DarthJarJar10why did you keep taking it for months ?
@@michaelbryant2090, yes. I took it for almost 9 months despite the side effects. I told the psychiatrist how bad the side effects were and she just instructed me to take it at night. They lessened in intensity but never really went away.
Around month 6, family members kicked up drama that only got worse when another family member died and there was a diagnosis of a terminal illness in a second family member.
The drama was the culmination of extreme psychological abuse, in part perpetrated by a psychiatrist older sibling of mine.
I had to switch psychiatrists and the week of the diagnosis of the illness, I had two emotional outbursts (they are always provoked) and I had my first seizure. But my new/current psychiatrist and I thought they were brain zaps. He tapered me off the Cymbalta from that September but by the following January I was still having the brain zaps.
Due to managing the situation around the ill family member by myself and other typical delays, I only got to see a neurologist in April. The MRI was clear but he called me back for a follow up that June, with an abnormal EEG. It indicated left temporal lobe epilepsy and I didn't have a noticeable seizure during the EEG.