Posted by yxibow on January 4, 2006, at 15:32:37
In reply to Re: How Long Is This Cymbalta Going To Take Before the » Sonny Liston, posted by Phillipa on January 3, 2006, at 22:16:55
> I took it a year ago when it first came out. I hadn't found this board yet. I took 60mg of cymbalta. 30mg for 30days as prescribed then. Then 60mg for another month. Never felt a thing no side effects. then I stumbled along this site. Read about how strong the med was supposed to be. So now I am prescribed it again and of course now that I know it has side effects it has them go figure I answered my own question.
I would agree again with the above posters -- it is posssible that you may be reading into the drug this time way too much, and reading all sorts of negative effects of the medication.
But shouldn't I have felt something the last time?
Not necessarily. If you have a biochemical imbalance from birth which if you believe in it, and I do, most people on here have one or another -- your body chemistry changes over time. Last time for me was moderate to hospitalizing OCD from 12 to 17. Then it was mild dysthymia (the fancy word for low to moderate depression) and anxiety at college over homesickness and half a dozen other issues. Finally I am stuck in this blasted disorder that nobody on this planet has but myself, and I'd just like to get back to how I felt in college. But I can't. I have to pick up the pieces somehow and invent a new me. My body chemistry has again changed. So this is a perfect example that if you took a drug once, you may not have exactly the same things going on your synapses and neurons inside your brain, a constantly changing affair.
Oh my aches and pains did go away.
It has been investigated for the pain associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathy (neurological pain) so this does not surprise me in the least.
I didn't know this until after stopping it with no withdrawal effects. Aren't I supposed to feel something.
You have to evaluate how long you've been on. I dont know how long you've been on (total) a dose -- although it sounds like your doctor is escalating on a dose schedule rather aggressively. Your last experience with it sounded like a more tempered approach to dose increase. And you were on it for 2 months from what I can see. If you've only been on it for a week or two, that isn't enough of an evaluation even if you felt something different the last time. This class of drug just simply doesn't work that fast to notice huge strides for most people.
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