anyone w/ cymbalta opinion??

[mary85]

just really hoping for some input from someone with experience w/ a new med for depression. Cymbalta is being recomended by my doctor. It is really new so it may not have been enough time in use to evaluate results. Any input is appreciated. Also might be important to add that I have tried about every antidepressant out there over the last 13 or so years....

[OnceNice]

Mary, I've been on Cymbalta. I kind alike it. I know there are some people who had a bad expeirence. I've been on it for about three months now. I'm only taking 30mg a day, the low does. I've taken paxil, zoloft, anafrinil, topamax, celexa. I kinda like this one. It made me not hungry for the first month and I lost some weight, but then that tapered off. I did not get tremors, or headaches or that feeling like your heart is gonna jump out like I did with all the others and of course no weight gain for me. Everyone is different. I have heard that you cannot stop this cold turkey though. If you get on it and you try to stop cold turkey its suppose to mess you up. I just stay on it for now.

[meli2005]

I take Cymbalta. It works for me. My doctor said she had seen some really good results with it from people that other antidepressants did not work well for. I hope it works for you really well. Depression is a terrible disease.

[BLackshirt]

Mary:

I have been on Cymbalta, 60 mg/day for a little over 6 months and love it. I was previously on Paxil for years and years, to the point that I didn't feel that I was getting any good out of it. The Cymbalta has helped me regain a positive feeling about life. The side effects are somewhat similar to all SSRI meds but in my case they were much less than with the Paxil. Ask your Dr. for a trial pack and see how it works for you.

Scott

[mary85]

thanks.. good to hear positive things.. need somethhing to get me through this funk.....

[Stacie99]

I was also interested in info on cymbalta..thanks for the input

[runbux]

I only took Cymbalta once. The 60mg dose was taken as directed and supplied directly by my physician. Within 5 minutes, I experienced the most intense and debilitating "high" of my life, which lasted around 12 hours. I very nearly had to go to an ER. No one who has felt this effect can seriously claim to be "sober!" This stuff is VERY DANGEROUS to the General Public, and totally incompatible with sobriety!!!! I'll take chronic depression any day! Because of this experience, I have lost five years of sobriety and blame it on Cymbalta. This stuff is obviously intended as a recreational drug for serious addicts and casual abuse!!

[nandm]

Originally Posted by runbux

I only took Cymbalta once. The 60mg dose was taken as directed and supplied directly by my physician. Within 5 minutes, I experienced the most intense and debilitating "high" of my life, which lasted around 12 hours. I very nearly had to go to an ER. No one who has felt this effect can seriously claim to be "sober!" This stuff is VERY DANGEROUS to the General Public, and totally incompatible with sobriety!!!! I'll take chronic depression any day! Because of this experience, I have lost five years of sobriety and blame it on Cymbalta. This stuff is obviously intended as a recreational drug for serious addicts and casual abuse!!

Welcome to the MH forum.

I am sorry to say but I have to totally disagree with your post. You are 100% WRONG with your statement, obviously you have not experienced true depression. You also are judging a medication by your reaction to it and not by the many many people who's life it has saved. I am 100% sober and have been for 7 years. I do not take anti-depressants for fun or as a recreational drug. If I choose to go out then I will go out by something that actually makes me high not a medication that does not produce ANY high. I am on 120mg of Cymbalta and it has never made me high. I have never recieved a high from an anti-depressant. Someone who is bi-polar can have a manic episode onset when put on anti-depressants, it would be my guess that is what you experienced rather than a high. It is impossible for an anti-depressant to make someone high. That is not the function of them. If it weren't for Cymbalta and other anti-depressants I would have committed suicide a long time ago. Yes, I completely consider myself sober and no one can convince me that I am not simply because I take a medication to replace a chemical in my brain that my body does not produce enough of. Unless someone has truly experienced a chemical depression episode they can not truly understand the depths and what a miracle it is to have medication that can resolve the problem. There are times I become somewhat manic or depressed due to my bi-polar disease but that is not due to my anti-depressant medication it is related to the bi-polar issue.

[historyteach]

Originally Posted by runbux

I only took Cymbalta once. The 60mg dose was taken as directed and supplied directly by my physician. Within 5 minutes, I experienced the most intense and debilitating "high" of my life, which lasted around 12 hours. I very nearly had to go to an ER. No one who has felt this effect can seriously claim to be "sober!" This stuff is VERY DANGEROUS to the General Public, and totally incompatible with sobriety!!!! I'll take chronic depression any day! Because of this experience, I have lost five years of sobriety and blame it on Cymbalta. This stuff is obviously intended as a recreational drug for serious addicts and casual abuse!!

Hi, runbux,
And welcome to the Mental Health forum of SR!

Cymbalta is *not* a recreational drug. It does not make one *high.*
It can be life saving for those with severe depression.

*You* may have had a very bad reaction to it. If so, *you* should not take it. And yes, you *should* have gone to the ER! Why didn't you?

Please do not judge others sobriety by *your* experience. And, I wouldn't say you lost your 5 years either. You didn't take anything with the purpose of getting high. You had a bad medical reaction to a valid medication. There is a *real* difference to the two.

Consider yourself sober and talk to your doctor about your reaction. It's very likely you had a manic reaction. If so, you may want to look deeper into your "depression." There are links up top in the stickies.

Shalom!

[Zencat]

Originally Posted by runbux

I only took Cymbalta once. The 60mg dose was taken as directed and supplied directly by my physician. Within 5 minutes, I experienced the most intense and debilitating "high" of my life, which lasted around 12 hours. I very nearly had to go to an ER. No one who has felt this effect can seriously claim to be "sober!" This stuff is VERY DANGEROUS to the General Public, and totally incompatible with sobriety!!!! I'll take chronic depression any day! Because of this experience, I have lost five years of sobriety and blame it on Cymbalta. This stuff is obviously intended as a recreational drug for serious addicts and casual abuse!!

I know exactly what your describing and in my part of town they don't call it Cymbalta...lol.