Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Cymbalta

Tomorrow will be day 7 of my Cymbalta trial, and so far, I don’t have many complaints.  I spent a week tapering down my Effexor dosage to try to avoid any discontinuation syndrome before I started Cymbalta, but I’ve still been dealing with some mild nausea and an unpleasant headache for the past few days.  Unfortunately, it’s impossible to tell if those things are caused by stopping Effexor, by starting Cymbalta, or even by the weather (it’s been unusually humid and overcast with a lot of low pressure).  I find a sinus pill and a couple of Advil keep the headache under control, so it might just be a combination of many things causing the symptoms.  I also haven’t been sleeping well, which is a normal problem not necessarily Cymbalta-related, but it could be headache-related. 

One symptom I’m quite sure i can attribute to Cymbalta is hunger.  I’ve been ravenously hungry this past week, and I need to watch what I eat so I don’t contribute to any unnecessary weight gain.  I hope this might ease up over the coming weeks.  I also noticed that for the first few days I felt a little “weepy”, but that could definitely be a post-Effexor problem as I’ve had it in the past. It seems to have gotten better—I don’t know how to describe it except to say it’s the sensation behind your eyes and in your head of being about to cry, but over nothing in particular.

I’m only taking a 20mg dose of Cymbalta daily, and I’ll definitely stick to that for a while before I try to increase it to the 40mg the doctor prescribed.  As for whether I’ll stay on it long-term, I can’t say, but so far I feel my body is tolerating it better than it’s tolerated many other drugs.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 07/25 at 08:38 PM
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