Posted by polarbear206 on January 29, 2007, at 8:47:40
In reply to Re: Cymbalta at 3 days update ))) Blueberry » polarbear206, posted by blueberry1 on January 28, 2007, at 13:20:24
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> > Why don't you try taking it a night along with xanax for a couple weeks? Have you ever taken fish oil caps? This might be a good add on too for you. If so, I'm sure you know to take one with a higher ratio of EPA to DHA. I take 3 1200mg of Nature Made Maimum strength twice a day. Research has suggested that those with more severe depression/anxiety and bipolar depressions benifit from higher doses. Like you said, try and stick it out. Too many people give up too fast and don't give it a try. I have read your post about your hyper-sensitivety to medications and hope your will find relief. Do you any form of exercise? Do something that will make you sweat, to get those endorphins flowing. This is a great anxiety buster.
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> I respect your knowledge and I appreciate you taking the time to help.
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> Nightime dosing with xanax. Hmm. Not a bad idea.
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> I do take fish oil. Not enough though. I need to increase the dose. Only take 400mg epa 300mg dha. I have tried high doses before and it was either my imagination, a placebo effect, or it really did increase both anxiety and depression. Not sure.
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> Exercise. Yeah I get tons of that. I walk a very fast pace about 4 miles a day. Never break out in a sweat though. If I exercise too hard, I can reliably expect increased anxiety afterwards, followed by worse depression. That noradrenaline gets pumped up too much, and then it crashes and I get real depressed.
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> I'm going to do my best to stick it out. Taurine or xanax are on my list of anxiety managers. As long as cymbalta doesn't do something really bad, like severe balled up crying fits, outrageous agitation, I am going to do my best to keep at it.
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>Blueberry,
Thank you for the compliment. I hope you will keep this post going so I can see how you are doing with your new med regime. Did I read somewhere in one of your other post that you work night shift? I'm not sure if it was you or not. The best thing to do with hard to treat depressions etc... is to stay away from working these kind of hours. It just compounds the problems when you have irregular sleeping patterns. It plays such an important role for your body and mind to be on the same sleep/wake cycle when taking these medications. I know that in reality not everyone is able to do this with their jobs. When I was just out of nursing school I worked 5 years of night shift, and I will never do it again. It really messed me up. This was even before my symptoms really came to the surface. It wasn't until after the birth of my son 17 years ago, that all hell broke loose. Severe PPD. I never want anyone to go through what I did. Never went back to my gynocologist after that. He told me to listen to music and take walks and basically blew me off. I ended up in the psych-ward within a week.
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