Re: Hopefully a new pain medication
I have been on Cymbalta for 3 months,it has helped,especially the
numbness in my feet.I can now get up at night and go without my shoes
to the bath room.It has some side effects,but hang there,it works.
hb
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Hi Fran, No I'm not on any other anti-depressants now. I was on one
about a year and a half ago trying to use it to help with my lack of
sleep before I went onto sleeping pills. But I had to get off it in
about 4 months because my memory was shot and we thought it was from
the anti-depressant. It was, because within a week things got back
to normal. I couldn't walk from one room to another without
forgetting what I went in there for. At lease now I can go from one
end house to the other before I forget. :-) Our youngest daughter
just moved back in with use after being on her own for about 6 years
and she is getting a kick out of seeing the old man standing there
trying to remember why he is going here or there. Very funny, ha,
ha.
I sure hope this stuff does work because nothing else is doing much
except the hydrocodone, but I need to increase the amount I am
taking about every 4 months.
I'll let you and Janet know after I give it some time.
I hope your new chair does help.
--- I started taking cymbalta the first of January and I think it is
helping with the pain of fibro and my mood. I was on prozac before.
Cymbalta is different than prozac in that besides being a serotonin
reuptake inhibitor it is also a norepinephrine inhibitor. So it works
on two of our brain chemicals. I don't know about effexor, what
chemicals it works on. I would try it though, Susie