Has anyone had experience with Cymbalta?

I started Cymbalta about two and a half months ago to treat my depression. I'll take you through a rough timeline of my experience.

First week and a half I found myself very focused on my work again and I was able to blow through things that I had let pile up for a long time. This ended after the week and a half and I felt back to normal again so I'm calling it a placebo effect. Also in that time, I was unable to sleep due to the side effects. There's a side effect called "yawning" which seems weird, but I got it. I timed it one evening, and I was yawning every 30 seconds for a couple of hours, and every time it felt like a mini-shock through my body. That's mostly went away.

After a couple of weeks, I started going into extremely deep sleeps and I was dreaming again, which I haven't really in years. Very vivid dreams, not waking up like I used to and in the morning I'd have tremors and feel weak like I had been drugged. That hasn't really gone away, but the feeling doesn't last long in the morning.

Since then, the side effects of yawning, agitation and generally feeling sick with no appetite has gone away, except for when my dose went from 30mg to 60, when they started up again but less severe and for a shorter period of time.

I'm generally feeling slightly better than I used to before the medication, and I don't feel like I'm about to kill myself at any given moment. I wouldn't say it's made a huge difference in my life, I still mostly have the hopeless feeling but I don't feel like I'm on the verge of giving up.

What I notice the most, though, is before I started Cymbalta I was constantly aching. My shoulders, my hips, my knees would ache badly and the joint that decided to hurt would vary from day to day, but every day it was something that would go from being a minor annoyance to being intolerable as the day went on. Now...I hardly ache anymore which is great because I thought that would never end. I was so fed up with being in constant pain and one day recently I realized that I wasn't anymore. If anything, Cymbalta helped my aches a million times more than my mood.

I was once on Cymbalta for a 12 months. It did most likely not anything for my fibromyalgia pains OR my despair. When I went off of it I received REALLY ill, principal principal withdrawal, worse than another antidepressant I've ever weaned off of. Also, it will possibly rationale psychosis in a few sufferers. It made me variety of nutty. If you appear on-line you can discover all forms of understanding on Cymbalta similar deaths, even one woman killed herself in the course of the trying out of the drug, but it was once nonetheless published. I might perform a little severe study earlier than taking it. I'm no longer announcing it is dangerous, I'm certain it is been a existence saver for a few, however it undoubtedly wasn't for me. I desire I might've performed a few study earlier than taking it.