Cymbalta

Doc started me on cymbalta, 60mg/day. Working really well. Too well. My life fell apart when I was twelve years old, so I am not really sure what feeling good is without drugs or alcohol.

I quit the mirtzapine and replaced it with the cymbalta.

But hey, I am now happy, talkative, gregarious, and having a great time. I think I could sit through "Old Yeller" without shedding a tear.

A problem though. I am too apathetic about most everything. If I am hungry but I don't want to fix something, no bother. Hunger not so bad. If I don't get something done at work, who cares, they can fire me. I've been fired before. Don't tell me to do something because I will forget to do it. But, you guessed it. Who cares?

Been sleeping great! I am taking trazadone, but with the cymbalta I feel so much better. I go to bed at 10:00, asleep by 10:03. Wake up without alarm at 6:30 and feel fantastic. No racing thoughts, no irritability, no sadness. No irrational behavior. I have lost 20 lbs in 2 months, but this is not the first time I have lost this much this quickly.

I want to continue with the cymbalta, but get rid of the apathy. Any suggestions?

Jamie- LOL!!!!

Tortoise- I started on the cymbalta because I was depressed and the mirtzapine wasn't getting the job done.

When started on cymbalta, I was not accustomed to it and had slurred speech and balance problems. Which have now gone away.

Now it is going great I believe, but wife is not real happy. I feel relaxed, happy, wonderful, world and people are great new discoveries. But I am experiencing some of the side effects, nausea, no appetite, low concentration, apathy. I am willing for the trade off with the side effects. Wife says there has to be a happy medium. If so, we still have yet to find it in 30 years.