Comments: Depression Hurts And So Does Cymbalta
I have been taking Cymbalta for alittle over four months, This product has not helped with any of my pain (especially headaches) I don't even feel like I am on an anti-depressent so I guess it stopped working. I am still depressed, sleeping for 14 hours at a clip and still in alot of pain. My psychiatrist even told me the Cymbalta may even be CAUSING my frequent and dibilitating headaches, that i am now seeing a neurologist about..I second the notion that the Cymbalta is a fraud and they commercials are false advertisement!!
----Still depressed and still in pain
--T
Posted by Tina at November 5, 2007 09:52 PM
Tina,
Has the psychiatrist bothered to ask you why you are so unhappy, other than some purported chemical imbalance in your brain. It's likely there is a reason for your extreme unhappiness, that you are not crazy, and that when you work through that experience you will have less of a need to sleep all of the time.
Posted by Sally at November 6, 2007 06:19 AM
Traci Johnson, age 19 hung herself in the Eli Lilly lab while trialing Cymbalta, as a healthy college student.
Her story is in one of the Cymbalta articles on this blog, and here is a link that gives a face with the name.
I feel it's imperative for consumers to understand that these medications are not always used for psychiatric purposes.
Cymbalta has crossed over for pain management, urinary incontinence ,and who knows what else.
Posted by Stephany at November 26, 2007 06:39 PM