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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / March 2005cymbalta? doc gives new drug
anyone start this? its a new antidepressant that has been approved by the FDA for nerve damage for diabetics and it has been successful for people with fibromyalgia. I guess he just wants to see if it helps at all. I have read all i can on the net, and was justwondering if there was anyone here who is familiar with it.. marnie  Signature~*~*~ captive gaze inside your eyes ~*~*~ my trading list is here: http://db.etree.org/telafree wanna be a part of shnshare? http://wiki.etree.org/index.php?page=HowToGuide Hi Marnie, I'll be interested to see if you get any answers. I have RA and my RD wants me to stop my Paxil for 3 days and then start Cymbalta. I am worried about doing that because the Paxil works and I am not a happy camper when I am on an anti-depressant that isn't working. I plan to speak to someone who is more familiar with clinical depression before making the change. Hope you get some replys. KAT Kat, I've had to come off of Paxil before and believe me it took more than three days. Be careful with weaning off. Go very slow and if you begin feeling bad, like pain or nausea it might be side effects from coming off of it. Then again, you might not have any problems at all. debbie m. http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/angels1/ > Hi Marnie, > I'll be interested to see if you get any answers. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Hope you get some replys. > KAT Well after about a month on cymbalta, my attitude has done a 180 and im extremely happy. My pill situation seems to be keeping me stable and I've even been able to work a 32 hour work week which I hadn't done in 3 years probably. So i'd say I'm having a great reaction to it. The only side affect is tha sometesim my feet get numb, not totally numb, i can feel pressure but it just takes a second or two, and i can feel heat and cold but it takes a second or two. I don't get it every night, but somenights and it really is kinda freaky. Marnie > Well after about a month on cymbalta, my attitude has done a 180 and im > extremely happy. My pill situation seems to be keeping me stable and [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Marnie Hi Marnie,, Aaah me, the good and bad of it all. I used to have a leg that the feeling would go away on and it was very scary. You just can not go down stairs when you do not feel your foot touching with the hand rail for support helped. I took a lot of heat from the people I worked with because it did not happen all the time. You know how guys are. It took two years of being careful and stretching for it to go away. Harv Hunh. Sounds like the cymbalta is great, but the foot thing does sound freaky. I hope it doesn't get any worse and doesn't interfere with you being able to stay on this med. SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare Great news marnie! Good to hear from you. debbie m. http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/angels1/ > Well after about a month on cymbalta, my attitude has done a 180 and im > extremely happy. My pill situation seems to be keeping me stable and [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Marnie Hello KAT, Paxil is a drug you absolutely must come off slowly. Just finished talking to a friend of mine who is a psychiatrist to confirm that. She highly suggests you actually see a psychiatrist for the weaning off of paxil process as your RD probably does not have the info he/she needs if he/she suggested a cold turkey weaning process. There are some anti-depressents you can stop suddenly but paxil is not one of them. I am not prone to doom and gloom thought processes, but have seen two patients and had several friends who stopped paxil rapidly and had a very difficult time. I'd do my own research on this as there seems to be much literature re: side effects from rapid cessation of paxil. Melinda > Hello KAT, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Melinda From personal experience. I have taken various anti-depressants on and off most of my adult life. Paxil has been the one that works best for me for the last eight or ten years. But I have to be very careful not to miss a few days for any reason. I crash so fast that I'm lucky I have it together enough to realize why I crashed and what to do about it. This isn't a good one if you just take an anti-depressant periodically. Jo Jo, I've depended on Paxil for quite a few years now also. Cut the dose down a few weeks ago for a week or so and found myself very thin skinned and crying easily. Had to go back to the 20 mg. Gwen > > Hello KAT, > > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Jo I'm not sure what the original post was but I'm here to tell you from personal experience you MUST come off Paxil slowly. It took the help of a psy. plus months of weaning to come off of it. I have to say the same thing for Effexor. Some people do have a harder time with this kind of weaning off Seratonin type drugs and I'm one of them. debbie m. http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/angels1/ > Hello KAT, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Melinda > anyone start this? its a new antidepressant that has been approved by > the FDA for nerve damage for diabetics and it has been successful for [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > marnie There's been a lot of discussion about it over on alt.med.fibromyalgia that you google if you want. SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare > anyone start this? its a new antidepressant that has been approved by the > FDA for nerve damage for diabetics and it has been successful for people [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > marnie A friend tried it, and it left her feeling angry and brooding all the time. She went back to Paxil after a weaning down process. YMMV as we each have different reactions to these kinds of drugs. Adelle |
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