I've suffered from anxiety and depression since I was 21..I'm almost 30 now. I've just recently started seeing a therapist who has perscribed Cymbalta. I had already gained like 30 lbs since last summer and now I think I'm gaining again on this crap. At my second visit, he upped my dosage to 90 mgs a day and if that doesn't work Im looking at 120mgs a day.
As it turns out, I'm in the 10% that is hard to treat. I was addicted to narcotics and instead of going nuts and being just doped out of my head, I functioned on the stuff. It didn't affect my every day life at all. I'm looking at a 20-30% chance of ever getting off any meds for good. To tell the truth, I still have my "candy" so that I can feel some sort of normalsy. I just want all of the insanity to stop. No drugs of any kind.
I want to know, is there really a time when one feels normal? I haven't felt it in so long, that I forget what it feels like. The sweating and hot flashes from the Cymbalta is gruesome. I feel like I'm sitting in an oven right now.
Anyway, I feel like I'm not only letting myself down, but I feel like I'm letting my son down. This is the only way I know how to really function and keep some sort of sanity. Im a single mom of one and a college student who was recently divorced. How do I deal with all of this crap????
Hi I'm new to this site, but I know I've tried coming off this drug and it's terrble. I've been on it for a year and started with 60mg and now on 30 but it's not doing anything for me and I want off. does anyone have a lawsuit going. I tried emailing the news station but it came back to me and I don't know why
Hi try Xanax does work quickly, but I'll make another couple of suggestions as a fellow life-long sufferer. One is to make sure that you have enough magnesium. It is the mineral that can help anxiety specifically
hi, I have been on antidepression pills for 10 years and Cymbalta at first seemed like a blessing but that along with Geodon made me feel numb and I did not like that feeling. I wanted to feel something so I reduced my cymbalta from 90 to 60 and then went off. Everything was fine for about a week and then the headaches started. I knew it was a withdrawal sympton so after researching Cymbalta I found I could go with bupropion which is the generic of Welbutron and also I switched my Geodon to risperidone and no longer feel like I'm numb. Talk to your pharmacist about what you taking if you want to go generic. They know what's in the drug and can help you get informed better than the Drs. I wish you luck and also the Cymbalta and the Geodon were costing me close to $300 a month and the generics combined around $17.00. That makes me feel pretty good'
Cymbalta
Posted - 11/05/2008 : 19:29:55
l sympton so after researching Cymbalta I found I could go with bupropion which is the generic of Welbutron and also I switched my Geodon to risperidone and no longer feel like I'm numb. Talk to your pharmacist about what you taking if you want to go generic. They know what's in the drug and can help you get informed better than the Drs. I wish you luck and also the Cymbalta and the Geodon were costing me close to $300 a month and the generics combined around $17.00. That makes me feel pretty good'
