I am very interested in hearing from anyone who is on Cymbalta and how effective you feel it has been? My daughter has just been diagnosed with fibro and started Cymbalta 1 week ago - feeling hopeful but want to be realistic.
I am so glad your daughter has a supportive family! I am sorry I can't comment on the cymbalta as I haven't been on it. But welcome to the group.
Hello
I was on cymbalta for awhile and it worked really well. I had to stop taking it because of insurance reasons.
It did take a while for the full effects to be seen. I hope your daughter does well.
Hi Cmboyle31, I've been on Cymbalta for a year. I started with 60mg once a day. Now I take it twice a day. The only side effect I feel from it is excessive sweating. It seems it's the combination with other meds that make me sweat. I'm still trying to figure it out.My expectations were high when I first took Cymbalta. I thought the pains would completely go away. I still have flares but they are not as sever as they used to be. I hope your daughter does well. She is lucky to have a supporting mother.
I am currently on Cymbalta and Abilify and not sure anything is working at this point. I'm still in my first flare as only recently been diagnosed but I'm hoping it get's better too! Welcome, I'm new here too and so far the community is a great outreach area. The only bad sideefftect for me on this so far has been headaches at first which have gotten better and RLS
I am like everyone else and sorry that your daughter is having to deal with this. I have been taking Cymbalta for a few months now and don't really know that I think. At first, I did as instructed and took 30mg at night. I changed that very quickly because I was not able to sleep for more than 15 minutes and upon waking it took a couple of hours to get back to sleep, only to wake in 15 minutes again! Very frustrating and hard to deal with while still working full-time. My rheumatologist has increased the dose to 60mg daily which I take in the morning. Helped a lot with the insomnia. I do still have dry mouth, but it is listed as a side effect of many of the meds I take for other things, too, so I can't really ascribe that to the Cymbalta alone. I am not really sure if this is helping me or not. I had been given Gabapentin (once by a neurologist for migraine and once by the first rheumatologist I was seeing) and it didn't help either thing and I gained about 30 pounds. My current rheumatologist told me that if something isn't working to say so and they will try something else. That is why I am currently on the Cymbalta. I go back to see her in January and we will reassess again at that time. Best of luck to your daughter and to you on this journey.
Hi cmboyle31. I have been on Cymbalta for fibro for about 4 or 5 months now and am on 60 mg/day. It has not made all the pain go away but so far I am happy with it, the flare ups are not as bad as they used to be. I have been instructed to take it at night feeling that it might help me sleep better. My sleep is not good which started before taking Cymbalta. I do like the Cymbalta for a couple other reasons, the side effects do not seem as bad as other medications and of course with chronic pain and sleep deprivation, depression will inevitably set in and it helps with that as well. Give it a chance, just remember that it is not a miracle drug and there is always the option to try other things that may work for your daughter and be better. But definitely, a week is not long enough to tell! Good luck!
I am taking 60 mg of Cymbalta a day... I started out with 30mg then increased to 60mg...I can tell you this. It made me very loopy at first. I had night sweats the twitching and muscle spasms got worse...but with time that seemed to dissipate...oh yeah and the fibro fog...lol... I was grasping at straws to find words and remember things... but again that got better as time went on... I did notice my sleep was broken so I was put on Trazodone to help with sleep... that has worked just fine for me. Let your Daughter know she has to give each med. time to work and get into her system...
I am currently on cymbalta and it has helped alot with the pain. When I went off of it I felt like I was in hell. I hope it works for her!! ((HUGS))