Cymbalta for Fibromyalgia
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Treatment Ratings for FMS Symptoms
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Fibromyalgia Tender Point Pain Relief
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2.72
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Myofasical Trigger Point Pain Relief
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2.71
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More Energy / Mental Clarity
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3.68
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Better Sleep
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2.39
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No Side Effects
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4.84
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Convenience
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7.81
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Cost/Benefit
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3.89
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Depression Relief
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4.87
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome Relief
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1.64
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Genitourinary Problem Relief
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1.42
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Skin Problem Relief
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1.19
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Hyopoglycemia Relief
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1.90
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Based on 37 rating(s) & review(s).
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Side effects not worth it 09/02/10
Reviewed by:
Location Not Given
I became suicidal on Cymbalta. Additionally my sex life suffered significantly too, my husband demanded I stop this treatment.
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Treatment Time Frame:
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4 Months
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Treatment Frequency:
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1 Time Per Day
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Dosage:
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30 mg
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Fibromyalgia Tender Point Pain Relief
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2
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Myofascial Trigger Point Pain Relief
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5
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More Energy / Mental Clarity
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6
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Better Sleep
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3
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No Side Effects
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2
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Convenience
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8
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Cost/Benefit
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3
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Depression Relief
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1
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome Relief
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1
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Genitourinary Problem Relief
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n/a
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Skin Problem Relief
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n/a
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Hypoglycemia Relief
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n/a
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Cymbalta Good For Flu Like Symptoms 02/21/10
Reviewed by:
Massachusetts, USA
This helped my flu like symptoms but did not cure them if I over do it.
It helped energy.
It helped depression as well.
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Treatment Time Frame:
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3 Years
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Treatment Frequency:
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1 Time Per Day
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Dosage:
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90 mg
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Fibromyalgia Tender Point Pain Relief
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4
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Myofascial Trigger Point Pain Relief
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4
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More Energy / Mental Clarity
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6
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Better Sleep
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6
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No Side Effects
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10
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Convenience
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10
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Cost/Benefit
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6
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Depression Relief
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8
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome Relief
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5
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Genitourinary Problem Relief
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4
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Skin Problem Relief
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1
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Hypoglycemia Relief
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n/a
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cymbalta 01/28/10
Reviewed by:
Idaho, USA
never again will i take this med!
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Treatment Time Frame:
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3 Months
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Treatment Frequency:
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1 Time Per Day
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Dosage:
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60 mg
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Fibromyalgia Tender Point Pain Relief
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1
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Myofascial Trigger Point Pain Relief
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1
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More Energy / Mental Clarity
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9
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Better Sleep
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1
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No Side Effects
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1
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Convenience
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1
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Cost/Benefit
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1
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Depression Relief
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2
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome Relief
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1
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Genitourinary Problem Relief
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n/a
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Skin Problem Relief
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n/a
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Hypoglycemia Relief
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n/a
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This drug MESSES with your brain chemistry! 12/13/09
Reviewed by:
Location Not Given
As a condition of participating in a clinical trial at UF, I had to come off the cymbalta. I was only taking 20 mg a day, so it was thought that I could come off it without tapering. NOT SO!
Google "cymbalta withdrawal" and go to forums, anecdotal accounts, etc.. Eli Lily denies there is any problem with this drug.
Coming off it, I had brief periods of dizziness, numbness, tingling, sensations like electrical 'zaps' in my brain (as though the DVD that is my life was skipping or sticking) My doctor and I made a plan to dump the little spheres out of my capsules, a little more each night.. when I was down to a half dose, I accidentally swallowed a whole pill. The next day, my fibro (which had been pretty much GONE thanks to acupuncture and massage and a healthier outlook) was back in full force. Acheing. Trigger points. Brain fog. Stiffness. Sluggishness. It was AWFUL!
It took me two months of gradual dosage reduction to get off this stuff without the horrible side effects. From now on, if I can, I'm sticking to the natural stuff -- and my dainty 10 mg of amtriptylene for help with deep sleep!
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Treatment Time Frame:
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2 Years
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Treatment Frequency:
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1 Time Per Day
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Dosage:
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20 mg
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Fibromyalgia Tender Point Pain Relief
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2
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Myofascial Trigger Point Pain Relief
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2
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More Energy / Mental Clarity
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1
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Better Sleep
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4
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No Side Effects
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1
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Convenience
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10
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Cost/Benefit
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2
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Depression Relief
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4
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome Relief
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1
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Genitourinary Problem Relief
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2
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Skin Problem Relief
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1
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Hypoglycemia Relief
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8
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cymbalta is for depression not pain 11/15/09
Reviewed by:
Location Not Given
cymbalta in no way helped me at all its mainly used for depression and as far as i can tell i am not depressed. not yet any way, if i keep spending money on dr visits and medicines that dont work not only will i be depressed but i will also be broke.
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Treatment Time Frame:
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1 Month
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Treatment Frequency:
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2 Times Per Day
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Dosage:
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30 mg
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Fibromyalgia Tender Point Pain Relief
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1
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Myofascial Trigger Point Pain Relief
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n/a
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More Energy / Mental Clarity
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1
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Better Sleep
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1
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No Side Effects
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3
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Convenience
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4
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Cost/Benefit
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1
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Depression Relief
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1
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome Relief
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1
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Genitourinary Problem Relief
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1
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Skin Problem Relief
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1
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Hypoglycemia Relief
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1
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Took Depression to new frontier 09/15/09
Reviewed by:
Location Not Given
I was still in pain and tired but since I was so spaced out I didn't really care. At the fifth day I found myself considering the advantages of suicide. Well at least I now understand that my regular depression is just a function of the fibro getting me down. That drug is scary and it took me to a world I'd never experienced, before.
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Treatment Time Frame:
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1 Week
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Treatment Frequency:
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3 Times Per Day
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Dosage:
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10 mg
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Fibromyalgia Tender Point Pain Relief
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1
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Myofascial Trigger Point Pain Relief
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1
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More Energy / Mental Clarity
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7
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Better Sleep
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1
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No Side Effects
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2
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Convenience
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9
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Cost/Benefit
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1
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Depression Relief
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1
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome Relief
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n/a
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Genitourinary Problem Relief
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n/a
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Skin Problem Relief
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n/a
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Hypoglycemia Relief
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n/a
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1 out of 1 people found this review useful.
Blood in urine 05/14/09
Reviewed by:
Location Not Given
From the first day I started taking this medication I was bleeding into my urine and had no clue. The Doctor that had put me on the medication the day before had me come in for unrelated lab test the next day and found blood in my urine but did not understand why. I took the medication as directed, and when I went to refill it I asked my long time Pharmacist,what after all these years could be making my urine brown, he told me to stop taking the Cymbalta, and see my doctor right away! I stopped taking it that very morning and by night fall my urine was back to normal, no odor or brown color. I was lucky! I will NEVER take this medication again!! And yes I switched Dr as well..
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Treatment Time Frame:
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1 Month
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Treatment Frequency:
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2 Times Per Day
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Dosage:
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100 mg
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Fibromyalgia Tender Point Pain Relief
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2
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Myofascial Trigger Point Pain Relief
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2
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More Energy / Mental Clarity
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1
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Better Sleep
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1
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No Side Effects
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1
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Convenience
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10
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Cost/Benefit
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1
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Depression Relief
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2
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome Relief
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1
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Genitourinary Problem Relief
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n/a
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Skin Problem Relief
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1
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Hypoglycemia Relief
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n/a
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Cymbalta is not worth it 04/17/09
Reviewed by:
Location Not Given
This was the second worst medication I tried next to Cymbalta
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Treatment Time Frame:
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2 Years
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Treatment Frequency:
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2 Times Per Day
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Dosage:
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60 mg
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Fibromyalgia Tender Point Pain Relief
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1
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Myofascial Trigger Point Pain Relief
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1
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More Energy / Mental Clarity
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1
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Better Sleep
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1
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No Side Effects
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7
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Convenience
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6
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Cost/Benefit
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1
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Depression Relief
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1
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome Relief
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1
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Genitourinary Problem Relief
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n/a
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Skin Problem Relief
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1
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Hypoglycemia Relief
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1
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Under-tested, Oversold 03/02/09
Reviewed by:
Location Not Given
Got Pain? Suicide-Linked Cymbalta May Be Right for You
by Martha Rosenberg
February 21st, 2009
Dissident Voice
Many are outraged that Eli Lilly gave nonprofits $3.9 million in grants last year for medical courses to "educate" doctors about the
pain-and-fatigue ailment fibromyalgia - more than it spent for diabetes and Alzheimer's which people already know they have.
But finding new diseases to justify a drug's existence is the normal way pharma operates.
Especially Lilly who agreed to pay $1.42 billion for illegal marketing of its anti-psychotic Zyprexa last month.$615 million for criminally
promoting it for dementiaanother - $62 million to 32 states for illegal pediatric marketing and agreed to resolve Medicaid fraud investigations
into "rebates" at the same time. (And how was your year?)
And whose diabetes treatment Byetta is tanking since reports last summer of six deaths, at least two from pancreatitis.
But Lilly's fibromyalgia-fighting drug, Cymbalta (duloxetine) - its second best seller after Zyprexais - anything but normal.
Starting with the death of 19-year-old Cymbalta test subject Traci Johnson in 2004 - who hanged herself in the Lilly Clinic in Indianapolis and had no history of mental problemsit - has been beset by reports of baffling, rapid, unprovoked, and out of character suicides.
A 37-year-old man described in the Feb. 2008 Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology with a stable marriage and employment and no history of
mental problems tried to kill himself with carbon monoxide two months after taking Cymbalta for back pain. "The patient was unable to state
exactly why he wanted to commit suicide," write the four physician authors all with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Kansas Medical Center who note he returned to normal when the drug was stopped.
A 63-year-old man with no history of suicide attempts or ideation was similarly "unable to explain why he was having thoughts of wanting to
die," say the authors after becoming suicidal two weeks after being put on Cymbalta for fatigue, insomnia and sadness.
Last January, a Texas man prescribed Cymbalta for peripheral neuropathy because of a job that required him to be on his feet all day with no
history mental problems "had a normal day at work, drove home, said he was going to grab a sandwich to his wife, and went and shot himself," his family wrote a reporter.
In Feb. 2007, a 19-year-old Wisconsin college student recently put on Cymbalta "checked out books for a paper he was to write over the weekend," emailed his resume "to see if he could get a spot on Obama's team for the summer" and "then hung himself from his loft bed in his dorm," writes his family. One month earlier, a 21-year old Midwest college student, recently
put on Cymbalta, took his own life three minutes after speaking to his family while driving home and sounding fine, the family wrote a reporter.
Nor are incomprehensible and abrupt suicide attempts on Cymbalta a US phenomenon.
Bilal Salem and Elie Karam of the Saint George Hospital University Medical Center in Beirut, Lebanon write of similar "suicidality in apparently nonsuicidal patients after starting or increasing Duloxetine," in the June 2008 Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health.
Approved as an antidepressant and for diabetic nerve pain in 2004 - soon after the Johnson suicide thanks to an unfazed FDA - Cymbalta soon proved to be the "Swiss Army Knife" of Lilly drugs says its hometown paper the Indianapolis Star - approved for general anxiety disorder and maintenance treatment of depression in 2007, for fibromyalgia in 2008 and with approvals for chronic knee and low back pain expected shortly.
In Europe it is in use for stress urinary incontinence but in the US its side effect of urinary retention landed Cymbalta on the FDA's first Potential Signals of Serious Risks danger list in 2008. (FDA won't release suicidal rates from stress urinary incontinence trials says reporter Jeanne Lenzer on Slate, who estimates them as 400 per 100,000 person-years for middle aged women.)
But some, like Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, question the revenue-driven
prescribothan. Should drugs "that may have a really serious side effect called suicide," be used for simple knee or back pain, she asks in the
Star.
No kidding! Cymbalta is also being studied for binge eating, social phobia, chronic fatigue, restless legs disorder, seasonal affective
disorder, migraines, attention deficit disorder and childhood depression despite - known pediatric risks - PMS, menopause, alcoholism, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, kleptomania and the important medical condition: tennis elbow.
At the American Academy of Pain Medicine Annual Meeting in January, Lilly presented a study by its own doctors finding Cymbalta was superior to
placebo in knee painin - keeping with its penchant to publish studies by Lilly funded and Lilly employed doctors saying Cymbalta is safe.
Cymbalta is also a good use of state and third party payer dollars say Lilly funded doctors in "Differences In Medication Adherence and
Healthcare Resource Utilization Patterns: Older Versus Newer Antidepressant Agents In Patients With Depression And/Or Anxiety Disorders" in the 2008-22 CNS Drugs who are fighting the "restrictive reimbursement policies for newer antidepressants," in which pharmacy benefits managers are saying you want us to spend WHAT?
Getting benefits managers to cover the $200 a month cost for Cymbalta prescriptions for fibromyaglia may also be tough since the ailment has no clear cause, blood test or cure. Maybe Lilly will offer pointers in the medical courses it is funding.
Martha Rosenberg is a columnist/cartoonist who writes about public health. She can be reached at: martharosenberg@sbcglobal.net.
[And there are LOTS of ads for Cymbalta on TV. How else are Lilly CEO's going to afford longer yachts than the other pharma CEOs? Nothing
beats strutting on the deck of your longer yacht as you shame the poor bastards in shorter yachts! So a bunch of (probably worthless or surplus)
people die or are deformed for life - hey, that's the American Way! - so screw 'em! -ed]
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Treatment Time Frame:
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3 Months
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Treatment Frequency:
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1 Time Per Day
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Dosage:
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30 mg
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Fibromyalgia Tender Point Pain Relief
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2
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Myofascial Trigger Point Pain Relief
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n/a
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More Energy / Mental Clarity
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1
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Better Sleep
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1
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No Side Effects
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5
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Convenience
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10
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Cost/Benefit
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1
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Depression Relief
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1
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome Relief
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1
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Genitourinary Problem Relief
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1
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Skin Problem Relief
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n/a
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Hypoglycemia Relief
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n/a
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1 out of 1 people found this review useful.
RETINAL DETACHED = UNCOMMON SIDE EFFECT 01/21/09
Reviewed by:
United States
Hi,
I have not been dx fibromylagia - but had been prescribed CYMBALTA for depression. - A dear friend of mine has fb. and is using CYMBALTA successfully...
However, we are not all the same, and react differently to meds - and everything, of course.
Picking the rating for this tx was tricky - it is not ALL bad, but WAS FOR ME!!!
After seeing other refs here to CYMBALTA & DETACHED RETINA - I had to join your board and sign in to post this important message!!!
I took CYMBALTA for 7 weeks, then stopped - and 3 weeks later nearly lost my sight in one eye my retina detached so quickly. Now, One year later, and my vision for the same eye is very bad. This should not have happened! My (adult) kids expect that I should sue the px makers... Have not even looked into that. But my eyesight for that same eye worsens, altho I am adjusting...
If there is any further data on this subject, please post here and I will do the same, if anyone wants for me to.
Absolute BEST WISHES TO YOU ALL!!!
Love,
Darcy Jane Atwater
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Treatment Time Frame:
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3 Months
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Treatment Frequency:
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1 Time Per Day
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Dosage:
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20 mg
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Fibromyalgia Tender Point Pain Relief
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n/a
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Myofascial Trigger Point Pain Relief
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n/a
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More Energy / Mental Clarity
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2
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Better Sleep
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1
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No Side Effects
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1
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Convenience
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10
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Cost/Benefit
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1
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Depression Relief
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n/a
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome Relief
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n/a
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Genitourinary Problem Relief
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n/a
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Skin Problem Relief
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n/a
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Hypoglycemia Relief
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n/a
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