CYMBALTA Reviews (DULOXETINE)Average Rating: 2.7 (2745 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare CYMBALTA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR CYMBALTA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | depression | Dry mouth and sinus. Terrible jaw clenching, dizziness, problems sleeping, constipation, | I switch to Cymbalta because of some weight gain issues from Lexapro which I had been taking for over 2 years . But I'm going back to Lexapro, far less side effects and you can cut your pills to increase or decrease the dosage yourself. | M | 58 | 2 months 30 1X day | 9/22/2010 | 2 | Mild anxiety | I'd say it had a mild effect on my anxiety; thoughts still mostly there, but butterflies not. MANY mild side effects: 1) Libido actually increased a bit, probably due to lower anxiety about things, though orgasms more elusive. Didn't bother me too much; usually had one "the next time" 2) Constipation, controllable with Fibercon. 3) Insomnia, despite taking first in AM. 4) Slightly blurred distance vision 4) Pretty sure my thinking isn't quite as reliable 5) Weight gain already. Given all the above, for only marginal benefit, I'm stopping. | M | 46 | 3 months 60 1X day | 8/2/2010 | 2 | Back pain and sciatica | Major anxiety, shaking, very tense (especially neck muscles), a little nausea | M | 49 | 7 days 30 mg 1X day | 8/2/2010 | 2 | depersonalization and depression | Sleep disturbances (both insomnia and drowsiness). Feeling medicated and numb. More of that good old sexual dysfuntion and complete loss of libido! | I tried this medication hoping it would be effective since I had good results for a time on Effexor (which of course is also an SNRI). Unfortunately it wasn't a good fit for me at all. More side effects than with any other antidepressant (and I've been on a slew of them). | M | 42 | 6 weeks 60 1X day | 8/6/2010 | 2 | depression/anxiety | sadness,nauseau | M | 38 | 3 months 60 1X day | 7/29/2010 | 2 | Dysthymia | This has been no cake walk. The side effects that this medication has should make the manufacturer (Lilly) blush with shame. Anyone prescribing it should be required to take it for a minimum of six months. Each capsule has many SIDE dishes that have meant, SLEEPINESS, LACKING MOTIVATION, INSOMNIA, VIVID DREAMS OF A GARISH NATURE, EXCESSIVE SWEATING, ANTISOCIAL TENDENCIES, IRRITABILITY, DRY MOUTH, MEDICINE BREATH, WEIGHT GAIN, SERIOUS MENTAL MISTAKES WHEN DRIVING, CONFUSION, and others that I don't remember at the moment. | With all of the nastiness that this horrible drug represents I have attempted to come off of it twice only to come back on to it because of brain popping severity that one could only connect to as being in HELL!!! This garbage should be administered with a RED FLAG. In order to fall asleep I require additional drugs including TRAZODONE and TEMAZAPAM to help enhance sleep. I am now HOOKED on TEMAZAPAM as I am on the Cymbalta. My next order of business is to once again come off Cymbalta and hopefully the Trazodone and Temazapam later on. I will pull the devil capsules apart and take some of the time release grains out. I will carefully log each week as I do this to mark my progress and side affects. I expect this will take many months. What a shame (or is a SHAM!). If I have any problems with this I will ask for a new Dr. since the one I have now does not care what he prescribes. I notice that most people who complain about this bastard drug do not comment on what they will then take once they get off of it. This is a good indication of how the side effects of this garbage tops everything else. This almost smacks of a class action lawsuit against Lilly for their poisoning us. I feel that strongly about this! | M | 49 | 5 years 60 1X day | 6/12/2010 | 2 | Depression | Deep-end mania. | For the first 3 weeks, life was getting a lot easier and I started to hope that I was going to come out of that long tunnel of depression. But at about 4 weeks, I became fascinated with geology and I could not stop picking up rocks. My pockets were full of rocks everyday. I would take time off work to collect. It took me a full 12 weeks to fully realize how delusional I had become (as opposed to moderately depressed but not delusional, before taking Cymbalta.) Hm, what else, yes...I was also missing meetings! My career was at an all time low! I kept getting fired. (But I was happy, well sort of.) If you have the time and inclination to become an artist however, this may be the drug for you. It really works great on depression. I also got incredibly fascinated with digital photography. I was extremely prolific. I loved what my senses were bringing me. I've got kids though and if I kept taking Cymbalta, I'ld be living in my van by now and not paying child support. | M | 47 | 3 months 100 MG 1X day | 5/25/2010 | 2 | chronic depression and back pain | Was like a zombie, sick to my stomach, heart racing, and then major difficulting urinating. Was taken off. On the plus side it did take away 100% of the chronic back pain from my accident but the side effects were not a good trade off. | M | 53 | 4 days 30 1X day | 3/1/2010 | 2 | severe depression | no real side effects to start with,but slowly they are creeping in. frequent bowel motions,lack of libido(major)tired, not interested in life,increase in weight.sleeps alot. | my husband is on this drug, im getting him off it asap. he's not interested in anything or anyone.he's put on weight, no interested in sex, sits on his chair and watches tv then falls asleep,very grumpy, his depression has stsrted to return. | M | 49 | 9 months 60mg 1X day | 3/10/2010 | 2 | PD patient - depression | M | 55 | 90 days 90 1X day | 2/20/2010 | 2 | Depression/Anxiety | Extreme sleepiness and increased appetite | I am falling asleep in classes (never happened before in my entire life). At home I often take 2-3 hour naps. I am also chronically hungry. I am gaining weight quickly. | M | 23 | 3 weeks 60 MG 1X day | 2/8/2010 | 1 | Pain | Depressed, angry, lost, personality change | My husband had Cushing’s which resulted in high levels of pain from neuropathy & osteoarthritis. His endocrinologist prescribed Cymbalta. At 60mgs all his pain left. It was amazing. Almost immediately he became depressed, angry. He stopped working, could not sleep or hardly drive. He was lethargic; he would just say, “I don’t know” like somebody lost. Sometimes he could not eat. His memory was all but gone. It was HORRIBLE! So I started researching the side effects and found this website. I was totally shocked! People were describing the same side effects he was suffering from. When I told him how it was the drug that was doing these things to him he got angry with me. I could not reason with him at all. (He was mostly unaware of what was happening to him.) To make a long story short his doctor thought I crazy, but I was determined to keep fighting for him. A second doctor suggested he drop the dosage. Are you kidding me, my husband has lost his mind and you want to keep him on this mind-stealing drug? However, the lower dosage did the trick and, almost immediately, he started getting his mind back. He suffered bad withdrawals but came off of it completely. It has been over a month & he is back to normal. He still suffers from pain but nothing compares to what Cymbalta put them through. The drug company has sold this horrible drug as a “wonder drug” to doctors. Some of them, doctors, believe the drug company over patients. Don&# | M | 51 | 4 months 60 1X day | 2/20/2010 | 1 | Depression | Fatigue, Dizziness, Laziness, Lack of motivation, "Brain shocks" | I can't say that I truly ever felt a significant change from the time I started taking Cymbalta to this day. The drug has been nothing but an inconvenience for me. I'm an extremely active individual, and thought process at my job is critical throughout the work week. By missing one dose of this medication, you sacrifice an entire day's worth of work, as you're completely paralyzed from thinking critically. If that doesn't deter you from taking the drug, tag on the inability to perform sexually. This, along with lack of motivation to take on any responsibility whatsoever are the reasons I've decided to come off the drug. I blindly listened to my doctor without researching the consequences. Unless you are SEVERELY depressed, I would advise you to refrain from being prescribed to this medication. Turn to God and your loved ones for support in coping with depression, not a pill!!! | M | 24 | 1 years 60 MG 1X day | 2/22/2010 | 1 | depression amd anxity | major mood swing. dr jeckle mr hyde syndrom, insomnia, hunger increase, manic episodes, sense of entitlement, very argumentative, amnesia, overspending... The worst drug | My husband has been taking this drug for 8 weeks now and it has totally changed him for the BAD 100%. When I try to tell him the med is not working.That it has ALTERED HIS PERSONALITY 100%. He tells me it has changed his life for the better and nothing but good came from it. When it has not it has taken him out of depression yes. However it has stole him of his sense of responsibility, his priorities are 100% reversed, he has had major amnesia episodes from misplacing the car to spending sprees he did not recall doing. to this day he believes his car was stolen and i was the one who spent the money. when in fact he was the one who did these. He refuses to talk to his doctor regarding the changes his family and friends have noticed in him.he is very confrontational with family and strangers. he says very inappropriate things. He has a strong sense of entitlement. Just the other day he was opening fire hydrants because he felt he was entitled to because he was the one who dug the out from the snow. He talks at length about nonsensical things. Other days he is so manic he can't stop moving. I believe CYMBALTA HAS STOLEN THE HUSBAND AND FATHER WE HAVE ALL GROWN TO LOVE. PLEASE RECONSIDER OTHER OPTIONS PRIOR TO TAKING THIS LIFE ALTERING DRUG!!!!!!!!!!! I JUST WANT MY HUSBAND BACK AND FOR MY DAUGHTER TO HAVE HER FATHER BACK TOO!!!!!!!!!!!! IT HAS MADE OUR LIVES A LIVING HELL!!!!!!!! if anyone else is experiencing the same thing with a loved one please post it. | M | 48 | 8 weeks 60mg 1X day | 2/20/2010 | 1 | Panic Anxiety | Terrible nausea along with stomach cramps. I feel as if I have a stomach virus but the symptoms came on within 4 hours of my first pill. Afraid to take another one and think I'll forget this drug. I barely slept last night from the fever like hallucinations I had along with terrible indigestion/heartburn. Not a nice experience. | M | 41 | 1 days 30 3X day | 3/10/2010 | 1 | Depression | dry mouth, insomnia/vivid dreaming, anxiety, confusion, dramatic negative mood change ending in suicidal thoughts. | I was diagnosed with depression almost 40 years ago and have been periodically treated for it with limited success. Following a truly horrific crash, my former psychiatrist (a horror story in its own right) prescribed Cymbalta after a series of other anti-depressants in combination with various anti-psychotics failed to make a dent in the depression.
About two weeks after starting the drug, my mood took a sharp turn for the worse. I became rapidly and progressively more anxious, confused and depressed. My idiot doctor told me to ride it out and those symptoms would go away, and her idiot patient believed her. Instead, about two weeks after I started to go downhill I wound up voluntarily committing myself for three days because I became suicidal. The psychiatrist at the hospital stopped the drug and about a week later my mood began to improve somewhat, but it took about six months for me to get back to where I was, which wasn't all that great, before I took the drug. Everyone's experience is different, but that was mine. I hate the stuff. | M | 55 | 30 days 60 mg 1X day | 3/5/2010 | 1 | Depression/Anxiety | So "high" I got on my own nerves. After 2 weeks the "high" wore off and I was left in worse shape emotionally than before I started Cymbalta. Completely ruined my sex life even after coming off the medication. | I have been off this medication for 6 months now and I still have absolutely no desire to have sex at all. If your doctor reccomends Cymbalta for treatment of any condition you should run away. Quickly if you can!! | M | 32 | 6 weeks 30mg 1X day | 5/25/2010 | 1 | Depression brought on by job loss | I went to my doctor due to some mood issues brought on by the loss of my job. He recommended Cymbalta and said that this would "help me through the rough spot" and was temporary. I took my first (and only) dose at about 8pm. I noticed that I was a little more restless than normal. Prior to tonight, my sleep patterns have been good, body clock was fine. I tried to lay down about 10pm and tossed and turned as if I had too much caffeine. I got up and piddled on the computer and tried to go back to bed. I then noticed that I felt as if I was on a bad acid trip or something (I have never tried any elicit drugs in my life.) I began to shake, and feel pressure in my abdomen. The pressure has never eased, and now I am pacing and feeling very "trippy" for lack of a better term. | I have never taken any type of depression meds in my life, I have never needed anything of the sort. I am convinced that I will never take this nor any other med of this type again due to this horrible feeling. My mind is racing and I feel as if I am on a roller coaster that will not stop. It has been nearly 9 hours and this has yet to relent! Your mileage may vary, but this is not for me! | M | 39 | 1 days 30 1X day | 4/28/2010 | 1 | Fibromyalgia | anxiousness, very "high" feeling, could not concentrate, weight loss, no appetite, extreme sweating all day and night, runny nose, could not focus, come vision problems, | The only good thing I experienced was weight loss. Taking this medication was like taking a street drug. Very Very bad medicine for me. It might work wonders for depression for some people. | M | 40 | 40 days 30mg 1X day | 5/12/2010 | 1 | nerve pain | This is my second day i am using the CYMBALTA. My doctor didn't say about Nausea.So i was thinking i had bad food that why i am getting Nausea.Today i have read all the side effects. i am getting most of those(Nausea,Drowsiness,Vomiting, Yawning). | I hate CYMBALTA. | M | 30 | 1 days 60 1X day | 5/18/2010 |