Did you notice that the manufacturers of Cymbalta wrote that book?
No, I hadn't noticed. Interesting.
Use caution.
I suffer with each thing they advertised, I thought, "why not try it." I'm so glad my new doctor got me off of it right away.
Hi safenow, I stopped taking it after two days when symptoms for which I do not have the language to describe nor do I understand, returned right away. Those symptoms had been and right now are relieved with valproic acid.
I don't know what to do with all the boxed samples of Cymbalta he sent me away with though. Guess I really do. I throw them away.
On another subject,
I liked alcohol in my teens and then likely went onto acute alcoholism in my early 20's. I tried drugs very little. Even the first medications I was ever prescribed in my early 20's, I took for no longer then a week. I just was (well am still) afraid of med.'s. In my mid 20's though and for some months I tried a few prescriptions though. I don't remember any ever helping me more then causing me additional problems. Some of them like trazodone and buspar I just absolutely couldn't take long due to these causing me severe restless legs and me not knowing wtf.
I think, I much later became more willing to rely on a needed prescription when I'd first had some experience with it (such as when unexpectedly hospitalized) or I'd heard or learned a little something about it. I needed to know how much it did or didn't mess with me, as well as, be reassurred that I didn't ever have to commit to taking it; That I could take it as needed and not regularly.
Anyhow, I'd take it to keep my anxiety down after flashbacks and reliving traumas, so that I could stay away from the ER and then I'd rely on its length to help me bounce back from the flashback/ etc. hell, the following morning/day when possible. That was a Prn benzo for high anxiety I'm talking about here and a hypnotic one too.
But there was something different for sleep (I don't remember) that allowed me to sleep, dream vividly/hallucinatory and then hallucinate the following morning. That one, naturally I stopped a brief time afterwards and just as soon as I started working, and had decided to take getting sober seriously. As I knew that my motivation in wanting a free-bee hallucination, because I could, wasn't wise for me to consider seriously.
As for alcohol its been numerous years since, as I no longer drink it and gratefully relieved of this.
When I see my neurologist next and she tells me about the results from my EEG I am very interested in the results. That's another story, ...and I don't even know why I'm thinking about it right now other then maybe because that result will determine whether I need to stay on the valpric acid for the rest of my life. ...(If even possible) Not something I'm thrilled about, but perhaps something that can continue to help me greatly, as it has since late Sept., early Oct. this year.
Epilepsy runs closely in three members of my maternal family and only recently was I pawing through and browsing some of my medical records when I saw that an earlier EEG read abnormal.
I've previously had a bad tendency to associate my symptoms to what I'd then figured was the cause, never then remembering much, or ever considering epilepsy or prior multiple brain injuries.
