Posted by blueberry1 on January 29, 2007, at 15:00:50
In reply to Re: Cymbalta at 3 days update ))) Blueberry, posted by polarbear206 on January 29, 2007, at 8:47:40
Thanks for your post. Night shift wasn't too hard except for the first few days. I am back on days now. Night shift was for 3 weeks. The trick I discovered was to staple some dark blankets over the windows. Venetian blinds let in a lot more light than I thought.
I used 7.5mg remeron for 3 nights when I switched back to days to help shift the sleeping pattern quickly. It worked decent.
Thankfully I do not have to do this often. Maybe twice a year for 2-3 weeks at a time.
Now that I look back on it, I did struggle through some unusually deep moods during those nights. It's hard when you are already real depressed to recognize it at the time, but now that I look back I can see it. Also noticed my first week back on days had unusually deep moods, deeper than my normal major depression. The sleeping patterns were not a problem, but the mood effects were amplified in a bad way.
Up to 8mg cymbalta now. That nervousness fear stuff is mostly gone. Not many side effects other than slightly upset stomach, distant headache, and some vague feeling of tenseness. My usual afternoon sinking into the deepest depression part of the day and into a profound state of fatigue seems to be noticeably smoother.
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