Once more, with feeling

I promise this is the last time I’ll ponder this in public:  I’m now positive that Cymbalta makes me sleepy.  I’ve raised my dose from 20 mg to 40 mg (most people who take it for FMS seem to be taking at least 60 mg, so this is a step in that direction), and I decided to split the dose rather than take it all at once.  I’d already switched my single dose to the evening, because I suspected it was making me sleepy, but I wasn’t positive (because I’m often sleepy).  Today, however, I took my first daytime dose of Cymbalta in the last few weeks, and wow, was I drowsy!  I could hardly keep my eyes open, and had a nice nap while Flippy was in the same room, talking to her mother on the telephone.  Nothing was going to keep me awake today.  That means that tomorrow, I’ll have to make sure I take all 40 mg before bed, or I’m going to end up like a zombie during the day.  That just won’t do.

I have a “working job interview” at 7:15 am next Tuesday, to be a vet assistant.  I’m worried about lots of things (like brain fog making me appear to be an idiot), but one of my biggest concerns is getting up so early in the morning!  Luckily, if I was to be offered a job, it would be a four-day work week, so I’d have three days to recuperate.  I have no idea how things will go… we’ll just wait and see.

Posted by on 09/15 at 09:01 PM

  1. Ohhhhhh my fingers and toes are crossed for you.  I hope it goes the best it can.

    Deb

    Posted by Deb  on  09/17  at  07:46 AM

  2. Hi,
    I stumbled on your blog and I wondered if in your quest for help with FMS you have ever heard of using methadone for pain managment?  Try as I might I can’t find any reference to it for that use other than in terminally ill cancer patients.  I am wondering what the long term effects might be on someone who uses it for more than one or two years.

    Posted by Paula  on  10/01  at  07:58 AM

  3. Here are some reports from people using methadone for FMS pain:  http://www.remedyfind.com/treatments/10/964/

    Of course, take it all with a grain of salt, as one person’s horror story is another person’s miracle.  I think you’d probably be hard-pressed to find a doctor willing to prescribe it, especially if you haven’t already tried oxycontin and the fentanyl patch.  It seems to be a med of last resort, probably because it has a bad reputation re: heroin.  Of course, oxycontin has a bad reputation too, so maybe methadone is more commonly prescribed than I think smile

    If you do a search in Yahoo or Google for just “FMS methadone” you’ll find a few sites talking about it.

    Posted by Leigh-Ann  on  10/01  at  08:49 PM
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