User Reviews for Cymbalta oral

I must admit that the first two weeks was really exhausting with nausea and no appetite what so ever. Started at 30mg and after three month I went up to 60mg. It really helps me in not ending up in endless loops of thinking and worrying about everything. I sleep better and I still have my emotions feeling both sadness and joy and everything in between. This has been a life saver for me, I won’t be able to be in the place I am without it.

I am Post menopausal.. I was having horrible hot flashes .. I was scared to try hormone replacement because of the horrible side effects…My Dr had stated that some antidepressants work for hot flashes so by this point I had to do something.. this is the third one I’ve tried… and I feel human again… it has controlled my hot flashes to the point I may have one a day instead of the every 15 minutes all day long ones I was having .. only problem I’ve had is it does give me diarrhea..

Horrible headache migraine continual 3 days since started med

Drug was difficult to start, side effects were awful such as visual hallucinations (especially in dark environnements), agitation and involuntary spasms. Cymbalta 30 mg worked okay for generalized anxiety disorder and fibromyalgia, not a miracle worker. It suddenly stopped working around the third year mark, my side effects worsened too (constipation as 1-2 bowel movement per week, sexual dysfunction, excessive sweating, lethargy etc). The worst part being the discontinuation syndrome, it literally feels like dying. I was told by MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS that at a low dose (30 mg) it's safe to quit cold turkey, but apparently there's patients like me who can't tolerate such a fast taper. People on the Internet with 0 knowledge in medicine or pharmacology state that the only safe tapering method is by opening capsules and counting microbeads, lowering the dose by 5-10% every 2-3 weeks. In other words, it would take at least a year to safely taper 30 mg. Avoid this mess by never starting CRead More Read Less

I have anxiety/panic bupropion wasn’t working so I was taken cymbalta and it took it all away 3 days later I felt normal again but I didn’t like how it made me feel distant or far away like I was thinking hard about something.other than that the pill works great! Did have dry throat.

I was prescribed cymbalta from my psych doctor. I took 1 pill around 930 on Sunday morning. Felt fine at first, but then an hour and a half later I couldn't function. I had to lay down. Knocked out for a lil over 3 hours. Woke up feeling drugged and hazy vision. I was spaced out couldn't function at all. This all lasted all thru Sunday as well as all thru Monday. I finally started to feel better later on Tuesday night..all that from taking only one 30mg capsule. I will never take again!!

I took it last year . Felt really good and after 3 months on it . I had a retinal detachment and almost went blind . Needed immediate surgery. Found out that Cymbalta affects womens eye sight in women over 50 . No drug is worth going blind over . Should not be on the market

This is a life saver for me. I was recently diagnosed with fibre myalgia and it was devastating.i am an active energetic person, I've played sports most of my life and love to be active and moving. With this disease, the pain and aches stopped me from bieng active, which threw me into a deep depression. I had always had moid issues but had sports or physical activity to help me get through it. The fibre myalgia, on top of chronic depression nearly destroyed my spirit.i gained weight, was sad all the time and I couldn't move like I used to cause it hurt so much. Cymbalta saved me, in the first week the pain was drastically reduced! I did have minor side effects like loss of appetite and nausea but that only lasted for 2 and a half weeks. I did not affect my sleep except i could sleep without pai! I could go for 45 min walks agIn! I could do yoga, swim and dance with my little girl! I was so happy! My mood improved along with bieng able to be active again and I will continue taking this medication because it gave me back my life. I understand some people feel that depression is a matter of changing the people your with, or how you live your life, or that society and " big pharma" make us sick..or that taking meds make you want to take more meds..the opposite is true..antidepressants aren't addictive..the biggest issue with depression is sufferers not staying g on the meds because of side effects. There are people where the wiring in thier brains does affect thier moods and behavior..no one wants to be depressed..or schizophrenic or bi polar..these medications save lives. I am grateful this helped me..I hope this helps you in your decision.Read More Read Less

Within a short time of taking my first dose I had a reaction. I was nauseous, had diarrhea and felt dizzy. Obviously not for me.

I was suffering from light and sound sensitivity as well as major depression. This medication just so happens to be the perfect fit for my biology. Thank god. Seriously felt miraculous. Effective within 30 min but took about 5 days to balance out. ??????????

This medication changed my personality for the worse. Now I am trying to come off of it very slowly and so physically sick and severely depressed. Please don’t take this drug!

Day 7, I am waiting patiently for the effects to take place. Today I feel dizzy, cloudy minded, headache, flat mood, nausea. Other days I have felt almost euphoria feeling. Higher energy, calm, focused, happy, excited. I pray each day gets better. I'm also on 20 Lexapro. Only talking 20 cymbalta.

been taking 30 mg once a day 4 years....it was ok but i was still depressed with chronic pain...dr increased to 60 mg per day...omg! what a difference!

Worked well for lifelong anxiety and depression. I’m free and my head is clear. Exercise is key for this med to be full effective.

This drug has been a miracle drug for me! After a life-time of chronic pain (Fibro / Arthritis / Musculoskeletal pain ) that made me constantly exhausted and needing to bail out on activities I used to love - I feel practically “cured”! I can stand up out of bed and actually start walking immediately (no more creaking and stretching and gingerly trying to move) and I can fall asleep without shooting pains and writhing around trying to change positions to ease aches. I still after 2 years on this drug, lie still in bed and marvel at feeling NO pain! I’m 57 Female on 60 mg 1 time a day. Usual early beginning side effects (queasiness and tired) lasted a couple weeks. Pain was gone within a week. One day laying in bed reading - I had to put my book down and just marvel that I could feel zero pain. What an an incredible feeling after having chronic pain my whole life. Side effects are minimal for me: At first I was a bit tired, but without constantly fighting pain, I have SO much more energy!!! Don’t be afraid of all the negatives - many more people will hop on a review site to report negatives - There are so many of us out here who have literally been given our life back with this miracle drug!!! Read More Read Less

This stuff made me so ill, I am shocked it is legal. I gave it 2 solid weeks until it affected my liver and I couldn't pee without being catherterised. Not only that I started pooping blood (tmi I know) but I would rather be honest. After researching I found that this poison causes your GI tract to bleed, hence the blood. This stuff should be banned, as the long term side effects haven't even been fully investigated yet, and coming off it is as bad as heroin withdrawal. So to all those here who are saying to keep persevering with it I would just like to say.....Unless you are planning to take this rubbish for the rest of your life, good luck with the withdrawals when you finally try to come off it. If it helps Google "Duloxetine lawsuits".......You're welcome :)Read More Read Less

After 5 days at 20 mg daily, all in garbage. Diarrhea that won't stop and now muscles in legs are so hard and painful, cannot walk. No more antidepressants for me. I'm 74 and can't count how many I've been on since 1990. Cymbalta is not good at all.

I had random feelings of adrenaline and jaw pain/vertigo. I wasn't sure if anxiety or tmj was causing my vertigo. My Dr said I was having panic attacks and we both agreed to try cymbalta for possible underlying anxiety. Wow. I am willing to try new things, but I've never been on a medication like this before, and I reacted horribly. I only took one 20mg dose. Within hours, I became cold, shivering, nausea, and extreme sweating. I also had to pee every 20 minutes. I actually became dehydrated after drinking 120oz of water. I felt high and jittery. My appetite was completely gone (I'd chew my food, with no will to swallow the food) and my taste buds changed. I stopped immediately. But it's now 2-3 days since my only dose and I'm still awful. It comes in waves I'm pretty much bed ridden. I'm jittery, nauseated, tense all over, feel like I got hit by a truck. I understand these medicines have side effects and you have to "get used to it over time" but I would consider this to be a very very extreme medication. There's no way I could continue this. I feel like I would end up in the ER. I'm glad I tried it, because I know now I'm obviously not compatible with these meds. Horrible. Read More Read Less

I was prescribed Cymbalta (Dytrex equivalent) a couple of years ago for my Rheumatoid Arthritis ( in conjunction with another medication for my RA). My Doctor said that Cymbalta is a very safe drug with very little side-effects; he didn’t mention anything about the withdrawal side-effects (I’m not sure if he really even knew the full extent of the withdrawal symptoms). Now, in 2022, my Arthritis is under control so I am happy to gradually wean off the Cymbalta. A couple of weeks into weaning off this medication, I was already going through hell, and I haven’t even taken it for a long period like some of the poor people who have commented in the last few years. I suffered from constant diarrhoea, nausea, dizziness, brain-zaps, sleeping problems. A few months further on into weaning off the Cymbalta, things were starting to get worse - I was getting constant ‘Hyperhidrosis’ (severe sweating of the heels, palms, underarms) - to the point that I was losing a lot of electrolytes in my body, and went to Emergency because I didn’t know what was wrong with me and why I wasn’t feeling better (I also had a viral cold at the same time, to complicate things more); I also realised that I was getting serious ‘Anxiety attacks’. As a normal thing, I just get a ‘little’ bit of anxiety at times, but Cymbalta has made everything so bad! I get anxiety attacks especially at night when I’m alone, I feel so scared to be alone by myself, I suddenly have an uncontrollable fear of death, fear of everything that threatens my safety and my life, I can’t even explain why I fear, I just feel that I fear, without even knowing what exactly it is that I fear, things are just so literally crazy! I don’t feel like I am myself, my head always feels so cloudy, unclear, fuzzy; I feel a deep sense of hopelessness, depression, lacking motivation in doing anything, even the things that I use to enjoy doing before; I have memory loss, I use to be a very alert and switched-on type of person, now not anymore. I feel my life has been ruined, and my good future has been prematurely taken away from me. I don’t know if this anxiety attack will ever go away entirely, I don’t know if I will ever have a normal life like I did pre-Cymbalta. I pray for all those who have and will suffer from this drug, and can only hope that eventually the withdrawal effects may miraculously taper off. If I knew how bad the withdrawal side-effects were, I would ‘NEVER’ have taken Cymbalta, I would have tried some other drug for my RA. The withdrawal symptoms are so bad that it’s not worth taking Cymbalta because in the process you will gain more serious problems, some of them may even last for a long time, whether they may be permanent, I do not know. It is my hope, for the sake of us all, that they are not permanent withdrawal effects, such as my very scary and debilitating and paralysing ‘anxiety attacks’. May we all help and support each other through this hellish journey. Read More Read Less

I started taking cymbalta for anxiety about a year and a half ago. Once I got past the initial symptoms after about 3 weeks it has helped me so much! I had tried several other medications in the past and cymbalta has been absolutely amazing!