CYMBALTA FOR PAIN AND FATIQUE.

I thought that Cymbalta was a med for depression

cymbalta and the new drug savella are SNRI antidepressants but also work in such a way as i believe they block nerve signals for pain while not being narcotic so u dont build tolerance.   they can kill two birds with one stone... fatigue/depression, and pain which we suffer from quite a bit.   yes some people wont be able to tolerate the side effects which is why most start on lower dosages and titrate upwards.   but for the people it does work for, it will totally work and many will not have any side effects at all.   so its trial and error like anything is.   I allways read the drug reviews by users. 

these are interesting drugs to say the least and i think the newest wave of psuedo narcotics(ultram, nucynta) are based on this concept. 

Vin

I have taken it for quite some time for depression (along with Wellbutrin) and never had any adverse side effects - thank goodness!

Well put Vin...you soundf like my Dr...the only one that I like..lol
Yeah it is odd how one pill will make one persons heart race and freak out...and another a zombie...
It did make me sweat too.

But it just saved me. Side effects???? I mean really, what didn't I already have...lol. As if, I would notice any more...

My biggest fear was that they would run out. Or that it would be taken off of the market. For them the pain would come back. I was not able to lay in bed and be in the pain. I got up and took care of my kids. Sick a s a dog...but I did it. But towards the end I was unable to work my mircrowave and would was severly cutting my fingers and getting burned....in the kitchen. I am a fantatic cook...but I forgot how to handle a knife.
Some on here are on morphine and those other pain killers...that are very additve and they are not speaking to us now about their drug of choice...
But I know who they are. Poorthings. Now they have a drug habit on top of everything else.
I suggest trying cymbalta and starting it at 30 mg. I have had the ability to have the best Dr.s there are, and after 30 of these bozos's some actually had some good advice...and the cymbalta was the best thing for me to function a little bit better.

Martha's Vineyard,

Is there a lower dose of cymbalta to start? I am so sensitive to everything that I always have to start off low. I am currently taking 50mg of Tramadol 3x's a day and it's just not doing enough for me. I do not want to go higher or get on anything stronger. I wonder if I would be able to take cymbalta while weaning off of Tramadol?

I tried Wellbutrin before and it made me feel like my eyes were going to pop out of my head. I think that's what it was anyway. It was an anti-depressant but it was supposed to help with fatigue too.

Hoping,

I don't mean to laugh but you are so casual about your tooth falling out. The crispy bacon part is what made me giggle.

I do hope you get it fixed and back to normal.

Btw, I'm glad your omelet was at least good!

oh god hoping! that is awful..
You need to be very careful with your teeth.
Two of my dogs with lyme had teeth like a 15 year old dog..and they were only 2 and 3. I had them well groomes and only on the best dog food.
One dog, rosey who is now only 4 has had most of her teeth pulled....poor thing...and she has become such a little witch...lol lyme rage...but at least we don't worry about when she attacks my 40 pound french bulldog....lol..she just gums him to death.....he loves it actually...
Do not eat chewy stuff...gummy bears.....hard candy....tough gum, apples, bacon...lol.
Be very careful with your teeth now.
Hey....save the tooth and maybe the tooth fairy will come.....lol...sorry....he is coming to our house once a month now...lol

Yes the cymbalta will make you lose weight. My probelm with it was that I would forget to eat. And have no hunger pains. It made me thristy too.
But I got pissed when people would tell me how great I looked....I was really getting sick of it. I was so darn ill.....and barely there...and so I stated just saying...with my teeth locked...
Oh well....it is Palm Beach after all....it is not how you feel...but how you LOOK.
They just didn't get it.
It is so annoying to be so ill and no one gets it...till they get it.

Also ask about lamictal. But a Dr. who specializes in mental health drugs should be doing this for you.
And I don't mean some therapist of psychologist who wantst to test things on you.
If anyone in your family was treated for bi-polar or also alcoholiism, usually self medicators.
Lamical will help you get off the roller coaster of really high...and really low.
Since the lyme attacks the central immube system it makes our emotional state go wacky.
I got so tired of the too highs and too lows.
My Dr. told me that I was not bi-polar. But after what I had read on line...I did not agree with him.
Lamical got me on a steady rate. I did not get so hipper and I did not get mad and I did not get so depressed.
I was calmer.
I was given 25 mg at first and I was like...wow....took a nap and relaxed. It was nice to get off of the expressway of emotion.
He was very surprised that it made me sleep. I was happy to be able to rest. My mind was spinning all of the time yet I could not go to sleep....ever unless taking 10 mg of ambien.
I think that this is all very common for most people with lyme. The anxiety and rapid thoughts and mood swings. For me it stoped all of that.
It has to be taken in 25 intervals and not to be abused or changed and to be slowly like ever two weeks....moved up.
I was told that 300 mg was the normal dosage.
I have been just fine on 100 mg. 50 mg in the morning and 50 12 hours later.
I cannot even immagine taking 300 mg of this. I would never get out of bed.
Even though my lyme is gone. I do not want to get off of this. Why? I feel so calm. I don't drink and I have a stressful life and a valve prolapse in my heart. It only bothers me when I get too excited. So....I am calm cool and colllected. And I can think so clearly and without any panic. I am doing so well...I don't want to change that part of my treamtment.
I use to be given zanax for anxiety. I don't like the hangover and drowsey feeling that it gives me. But I don't take or need it ever anymore.
It also made me yawn too much. But not really focused and calm. Just sleepy.
I think my Dr. is what is called...my spelling...lol...a Pharmapsychologist. He specializes in drugs. He does not spend more than 10 minutes talking about my blues...lol. He wants to know how the drugs are effecting me. I saw him alot more when I was sick....but now only every 3 months. He would like it if I met with him before I changed anything.

Marta's Vineyard,

Oh, I am definitely not Bi-polar. I have no highs what so ever and I only feel the rage/crying spells while on treatment and when I'm on a Lyme cycle.

Thanks for the info though. I appreciate you taking time out to post that for me.

Cajun..talk to your Dr. about the drugs....ask him or her what you can and cannot take, and what you can and cannot mix.
The girl has fibro, not lyme above...like her Dr. said.
Because I do not know one single person who has lyme and who does not have depression with it.
If one pills can help with both. Then why take two.
Anyways...I am not pushing cymbalta...lol, they do not pay me.
But I can only speak for myself. And since I could not stand up and walk some days...it was the best drug in the world for me. So that I could function and not be in so much pain.
I don't need it any more for pain or the blues. That is all gone now.
It is nice to be off the emotional roller coaster.
One day I got excited about having forgot the mayo on lane two...and was already in lane 8. Going to the grocery store....was so hard to do. And with two kids. Well.....I started sweating and going faint and getting chest pains..and....you get it...I managed to get to me car...and had to sit for a while before driving.
I was not going to let anyhone do a 911 on me again. lol
But it was a great way to see some gorgeous firemen.....

I will become a MD so that I can be as smart of all of the ones that I have had the pleasure to have dealt with for the last 6 years with me and my two sick kids.
Cajun is a pal of mine....we talk....good day.

Yes mother....:>)
But she pulled my hair first!