Cymbalta

How right you are. Meds are a hit and miss till you get to the right ones.

 

"Lefty"

Annie,

So glad you hung in there and kept trying different things till you found one that worked!! A great testimony for this board. It's easy to get discouraged when nothing is helping.

Thanks for sharing!

Blessings!

yes thank you for the post. I am currently taking zoloft and have it the point where I've been asking myself if the med is still working. I felt ok on it when I first started taking it a couple of years ago but here within the last 6 months (rough time frame) I have litterally been on an emotional roller coaster. I see my psych doc today for the first time and I know I have the trial and error of meds coming up and that scares me a little bit. I don't know much about any of this. I just want to find something that makes me feel stabble instead of feeling like I'm just going to fall to pieces at any given moment which is how i feel most days. My counselor seems to think my zoloft isn't working any more from what I've been going through that's why she wanted me to see the psych doc. I'm just ready to be on an even keel and feel normal again and not be so all over the place. Does that make sense?

Hey guys, I was about to embark on the journey of going on cymbalta, since I was diagnosed with inheretant depression. I also heard that it causes weight-loss and severe loss of appetite, so you can imagine how badly I wanted it. I even convinced my doctor of prescribing it to me. Thank God I never actually took it. I came upon a site and would like to warn all of you out there. I did some additional reading and hope this will help those who are suffering from the withdrawal symptoms. Cymbalta is a combined drug that is half anti-depressant and half anti-psychotic medication. That is the reason for the severe withdrawal symptoms like head flashes and weird dreams. I can't believe that doctors would give something like this out like candy. Only people diagnosed with Bipolar disorder or schizophrenia can take something like this safely. You never fully recover from this and will carry the scars for life. A word of warning, diuretics tends to make these type of medication toxic and appetite suppressants will double your symptoms and make it alot worse. Any type of anti-psychotic medication dries out your thyroid completely, which causes permanent damage and causes weight-gain. I will suggest that those who have been on Cymbalta for a while should check out their thyroid. Sorry guys, but that means taking thyroid medication for the rest of your lives, and you will always suffer with a weight problem, even though thyroid medication helps to control in some way. This is not a drug to play around with and wish they would take it of the market completely. For those who it helps, good luck, you obviously haven’t tried getting of it.
How the hell does doctors give something like this who suffer from mild depression?
I would also suggest those of you who can, to print out the logs and hand it to your doctor. That will be the kindest thing you can do since they are the ones putting thousands of others in this misery...

I have been on many different anti-depressents ove the years rand I felt that my latest of about a year Cymbalta was helping until the day I decided to wean off them... Please Please take a look at the link below and be aware of what you are letting yourself into....kindest regards Amanda

http://www.mentalhealthnotes.com/2007/10/02/cymbalta-the-withdrawal-symptoms-from-hell/

FYI this is a blog that is anti-Cymbalta
Kitt

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