I was in Cymbalta it seems for years, the reality was I was only on it 5 months. The only way to describe those 5 months.....
I felt like a was drowning in a bottomless black hole of despair. I imagined conversations I didn't have. My memory was so bad, I thought I had Alzheimer's. If that wasn't bad enough, I started thinking of ways to die. I went as far as taking my gun out of the safe, I don't know how long I held it in my hands when I decided that shooting myself would be too messy, so I started to research poisons. That's when I realized I was in trouble, I told my husband. He immediately insisted I go off the Cymbalta. Getting off of it was no easy feat. I went through very painful physical withdrawal, even though I weened myself down as best I could. I'm much happier without it. I feel like I'm slowly getting back to being myself. My friend in Colorado has MS and she uses medical marijuana. Still waiting for it to be legal here. But I'm not going to let that stop me. For me, MARYJANE has been a Godsend without all the side effects.

Wow, I had very similar issue but with effuxor(venlafexine) I have battled depression and anxiety all of my life and have tried about 6 different meds without any working. I wonder if when fibro gets worse then it makes the depression worse so why take a medicine every day if it's not working for me and it was ruining my sex life!! (One of the few things in my life that I still enjoy) The only meds I use now is flexeril at night, xanax as needed and Mary Jane. Im also still waiting for NY to start the legal process next month but I so worried bc this state has some ridiculous rules and only a handful of conditions are covered. I have read many reports that marijuana is the only thing that is proven to actually help fibro pain.

I have never had any experience with Cymbalta but I take Savella, Flexeril. and klonopin. If your medications are causing adverse reactions you may want to talk to your doctor about changing you to something else. The Savella and the other man's that I take for the fibro don't have any adverse effect on me. You may just need to switch medications. I wouldl definitely talk to your doctor about.it. I worked as a nurse for 22 years and one of the things that I learned by being a nurse, being sick myself, and taking care of my mom, is that we aren't textbooks. Sometimes the doctors don't accept side effects that are not listed with the medication but every person is different and experience different side effects. I and he is so good that I stayed with him and drive 45 minutes just to go to his office. There have been several medications that I've been on where I mean the side effects were not listed that I was experiencing or I was like in a half percent of the 1% of the people that experience those side effects. It happens. Your doctor may want to look at the combinations of medications that you're taking just to make sure that it is the Cymbalta that is causing your problems. But as a patient, your doctor should listen to you and to your needs. You always have an option to get a second opinion or another doctor. Gentle hugs.

@A MyFibroTeam Member I agree with everything you said about Cymbalta. I gave it a week. That's my limit for meds. That pill is the devil in disguise. Mary Jane is my rescue drug. I also have MS and it's not legal here either. My bad nights or sleepless nights.... she is who I turn too.

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Marijuana isn't legal here either. I would love to give it a try, but I refuse to smoke.