Cymbalta for Fibro/Nerve pain?

I have started using Cymbalta but I haven't been on it long enough to know. I so hope it helps as I am really quite desperate for relief. I am not interested in physical therapy as it hurts me at the present time. Hopefully this trial of prednisone will give me some relief.   

I was on Lyrica , Cymbalta, and Tramadol for Fibro. I was on Cymbalta and Lyrica for a year. i stopped the Tramadol about 2 months in as it was just another thing for my liver to filter. It was said that I had the worse case of FIbro in South Florida, I was up to 200 mg.of Lyrica 3 times a day and 60 mg. of Cymbalta twice a day. I can say when my doctor ignored me the 10th time for the symptoms that I was telling him about Lyrica and him saying that he was going to increase my mg. above what was recomended by the pharmecultical company. I fired him and went cold turkey. The dumbest thing ever , you should never do that without being under a doctor care. I quit Lyrica cold turkey, the worse of two evils, I was sick for 2 weeks . Then I started dwindeling down my mg. of Cymbalta, it didn't make me sick but man it messed with depression.I was afraid to sleep , Iwas afraid to be by myself. I have been off of everything sice December. I can walk now without a wlaker. I still have some issues with processing, but I think that was due to Lyrica. Everyone is different. I think that my biggest thing that I can say is, decide what you can and can not handle and remember do you want to be on the medicine your whole life, when will you decide to stop. It seems as though doctors forget the weaning off part, You can think more clearly without them, but you know what you can and can not handle. I also did the pain management thing, I did it twice and that didn't help. I do recomend accupuncture, there is research behind how it helps with pain. It helped some. Good Luck, stay true to yourself. Remember if you are in pain and its not working, change it up .

You know I believe the best thing I could do for myself is to get off all this so called medicine as I just keep getting worse. I have literally begged for help with very little response from the doctors. I would love to try the acupuncture but no one in our area does that. I can't even find a rheumatologist that is accepting new patients. The closest ones would be 300-400 miles from where I live and no one able to drive me. I hope all goes great for you. Please keep me posted.

I was also prescribed cymbalta which I decided not to take, i read some great reviews on it at the time and some awful ones too so everyone is different. I tried Lyrica for a short time as it gave me tachycardia and gabapentin once as i had very odd reactions to it, I used to mainly used high strength cocodomal often and diazepam occasionaly when I couldnt take the pain anymore, i then decided to quit all meds and although im by no means pain free my pain levels have decreased alot, my very bad days are now 5-7 a month where as before it was 5-7 days a month where i wasnt in agony.

This increase in good days allowed me to start doing some pilates on a reformer and gave me the shove i needed to eat as healthy as when your shattered and in pain 24/7 you crave foods which arent the best. This also then helped with my pain.

When i (like over easter or christmas) fall off the wagon and eat rubbish my pain increases, it also increases during the time of the month (hormones) and after which i think is due to the fact i take ibroprufen for about 4 days straight and then stop, i think it somehow pushes my pain up.

I would personally based on my experince not take any meds unless i absolutely have too, i would try diet and gentle exercise first, i spent 6 years not able to do any exercise, it would wipe me out, even hoovering or washing up would make me hurt so bad but I really recomend a reformer, you can go at your own pace and resistance, stretch whilst increasing strength and symmetry and you lay down whilst you do alot of the moves so its not strenuos, I say this whilst ive spent the last few days hurting alot as i have not used it in a few weeks as i had the flu and got out of the habit, ive also not been eating great so I can attest to the fact it does make a difference. They are expensive new but you can get used ones on ebay for £50.00ish

 

Hi,  I have been on cymbalta for a few months and really like it.  It does help with the pain and fatigue, but not a miracle.  Still it is good if I take it in the morning, and then if I do my exercises, I feel pretty good!  I started on the 30 dose and now am at 60.  I think you can take more, so maybe upping it a bit  I will be even better.  Heard vitamin d3 and magnezium are very important and the B vitamins.  I take a multi and a little extra d3 and drink 6 to 8 glasses of water a day, and get my sleep, even if I have to take half a sleeping pill.  Good Luck

Hello, I have taken various medications in the past all started off well but , there is always a but Cymbalta having been on it for over a year worked well to begin with then stopped helping so i was offered amatriptalene as a top up it made me feel worse with no relief, so i thought i would stop taking all medication as it didnt help , i wasnt prepared for the withdrawels from Cymbalta i suffered anxiety emotions were all over the place headaches worse body pain ect ect. I read up on other peoples experiences and was relieved and sadened to see that alot of people were going through the same thing, so as hard as it was i stayed off it and now my head is clear still in pain but i just do what i can do and rest when i can. I joined slimming world as i want to try and see if eating differently will help and try a gentle swim ( still working up to that ha ha ). I am awaiting an appointment for therapy ( massage ect ) waiting list was 31wks the letter said . Well you have to make the right decision for you and like i said it did help at first but it was the coming off them that i feel i need to stress to you, just be prepared , and I wish you well.