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What do I need to know about Cymbalta (duloxetine)?

Cymbalta (duloxetine) is a drug from the group of antidepressants. This drug reduces pain, thereby increasing pain threshold in patients with neuropathic pain. It is recommended for patients with depression and different types of diabetic neuropathy.

Cymbalta (duloxetine) is well absorbed after oral administration.

Cymbalta (duloxetine) contraindications

Cymbalta (duloxetine) contraindications: hypersensitivity to duloxetine, angle-closure glaucoma, therapy with MAO inhibitors.

The drug should be used with caution in patients with epileptic seizures, abnormal liver/kidney function, mydriasis, and in patients with suicidal tendencies.

Cymbalta during pregnancy and lactation

Cymbalta (duloxetine) is not recommended during pregnancy and the period of lactation (due to lack of clinical experience).

Patients should inform their doctor if they are planning to become pregnant during Cymbalta therapy.

Cymbalta (duloxetine) dosage and administration

Cymbalta capsules should be taken whole, without chewing. The initial dose of the drug is generally 60 mg once a day, regardless of the meal. The maximum dose is 120 mg (2 times a day).

Cymbalta is well tolerated. It effectively helps fight depression. Patients with symptoms of renal failure should start with a dose of 30 mg.

Cymbalta (duloxetine) side effects

Cymbalta rarely causes side effects. The most frequently observed side effects are as following: dizziness, dry mouth, insomnia, headache. Cymbalta may also cause diarrhea, tremor, weakness, sweating, hot flashes, anorgasmia, decreased libido, ejaculation disorders. Patients with diabetic neuropathy may experience a slight increase in the concentration of glucose in the blood.

CNS: dizziness, sleep disturbances (insomnia or drowsiness), headache, tremor, weakness, blurred vision, anxiety, glaucoma, mydriasis, visual disturbances, agitation, disorientation.

Digestive system: dry mouth, nausea, constipation, diarrhea, vomiting, loss of appetite, hepatitis, jaundice, gastroenteritis, stomatitis.

Musculoskeletal system: muscle tension, bruxism.

Cardiovascular system: palpitations, orthostatic hypotension, syncope, tachycardia, high blood pressure.

Reproductive system: anorgasmia, decreased libido, abnormal ejaculation, erectile dysfunction.

Urinary system: nocturia.

Other reactions: weight loss or weight gain, increased sweating, hot flashes, anaphylactic reactions, thirst, hyponatremia, fever, angioedema, rash, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, hives, dehydration, photosensitivity, dizziness, nausea, headache.

Depressive states are often associated with high suicide risk. As a result, patients with a diagnosis of depression must inform their doctor about any suicidal thoughts and feelings.

Cymbalta therapy may lead to the development of mydriasis. Caution should be exercised in patients with increased intraocular pressure, or in patients at risk of developing acute angle-closure glaucoma.

Patients with hypertension or other diseases of the cardiovascular system should monitor blood pressure.

Patients taking Cymbalta (duloxetine) should be careful when driving or performing potentially dangerous activities (due to the possible risk of drowsiness).

Cymbalta (duloxetine) overdose

There are few reports of overdose with this drug. Symptoms of overdose may include: tremors, convulsions, ataxia, vomiting. Treatment is symptomatic and supportive.

Cymbalta (duloxetine) interaction with other drugs

Patients using Cymbalta should not take drugs with a similar action on the central nervous system (including ethanol). Cymbalta should not be mixed with MAO inhibitors, as this may lead to serious complications (myoclonus, hyperthermia, coma). Do not use this medication within 14 days after the end of therapy with MAO inhibitors.

Cymbalta may cause drowsiness. Therefore, patients taking this drug need to be careful when driving.

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Cymbalta is one cure for them all!! Cymbalta is my savior, a miracle drug, a life savior, a god’s send, a gift for me, an everything I need to change my quality of life. it already did it, it changed it a lot! to better, but I’m only using it for one week. I didn’t had any ideas that such a drug can exist, it is curing all my problems. now I seem to understand that all of them were co-related to each other and Cymbalta is doing whatever is supposed to do and I’m living a much better life now. In this week I have used 30 mg of it, 2 times per day which means 60 mg per day. A week passed and I was fearfully waiting for the side effects to show, but they never did and I have no side effects at all for my big surprise (and my doctor’s too). he gave me a list of possible side effects that I should expect but they never appeared so far. from the very first dosage I took, I was already able to see an enormous difference! As soon as I took this drug it has calmed me down within a normal level. In the past, before I have ever found this drug, I was uncontrollably mad at everything! I have lost my friends because of this! I was in an unstoppable panic mode, I was having very little to no sleep at all and I was suffering in a lot of pains! I am having low back nerve pinching (the reason why I was so easily irritable, mad and etc.) and bulging with degenerative disks as well as fibromyalgia. There are not enough words for me to describe this medicine! It is even better than how I have already tried to describe it. from the very first dosage I was changed, now I’m having a totally different life quality than before it and I don’t have side effects! I’m finally feeling the same way I did before the anxiety and all other problems took control over my life many many years ago. I even forgot how it is to feel like this. Cymbalta made me to remember! Besides, there’s one more benefit from it I forgot to mention. I was having high blood pressure because I was in so much stress from every little thing. lately it got even higher, but with this drug it came back to normal. I love this medicine with all my heart! If I could rate this medicine with max. 10 points I would rate it with 11! It made it all even better than how I could think or expect. I really wish I had it many years ago but I still believe that it is better later than never. I strongly recommend Cymbalta to other people!
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I started to take this drug before I tried more of others. It was difficult to me to find out the one that helped me and after some years of research I found Cymbalta. I can say that generally I’m pleased about this drug. I take it for 6 years and I noticed the only side effect that was the decrease of my libido. My family said that they noticed other side effects that this drug created but I can’t confirm it by myself. I was so stressed at the beginning that the only thing that I thought about was to get rid of my anxiety disorder because I started to get used with it. Of course it can be the explication of why I didn’t observed other negative effects of this drug. I noticed the decrease of my libido after 6 years of administration and I think that I noticed this because after 6 years I got used to this drug and I thought that it helped me what actually was a lie. In fact in my opinion this drug helps you just at the beginning. For 2-3 years you feel the difference between your past and present psychological situation but after this you just get used with it and you don’t observe that it’s not like that anymore. I can clearly say that it helped me but just for some years. If you are expecting to use this drug for a long time then this it not for you.
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I have suffered from anxiety and depression for many many years, in fact I don’t even remember the time when I wasn’t depressed. Over the time, my depressed got worse and worse, my attitude lately was bad and my general outlook on life was broke. I have developed a stress about everything that’s around me and I was worried all the time, constantly, without stopping. I was waking up in the morning worried and I was going to bed worried. My depressed was noticed by many as well as by me so I went to the doctor who put me on several different medicines. I have tried Wellbutrin, Citalopram and Effexor but these drugs made me feel even more weird, I was already a paranoid and after that my anxiety was increasing more and more. There was a time when I was ready to give up on trying to cure my anxiety and depression because it got extremely bad. I was thinking about it for months until I found Cymbalta. It may seem unreal for your because it was ridiculously helpful this drug. I started to take it only 4 days ago and as soon as I took it I felt great immediately. Only 4 days of taking this drug but I am already feeling a dramatically change, I am much more alive than ever! When I firstly took Cymbalta I went to the toilet and I vomited (don’t really know why) but right after I have done it I was feeling unusually good. it feels like I vomited my anxiety and depression in that toilet. It was the first and the only time I have vomited since then. I don’t experience any diarrhea, nausea or other bad side effects. I am not having any side effect at all and i’m feeling great generally. I feel like good wellness is flowing through my veins now. I have had sex with my boyfriend every single day since then and I am able to climax, finally. It improved my sexual life and my life overall. Cymbalta is an awesome drug, whoever is suffering from anxiety and depression should try Cymbalta!
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I’m taking Cymbalta for my anxiety and depression that I’m suffering from for about 6 or 7 years. This drug seem to be really helpful! It helped me to get myself back and to feel again that I’m living my life and that life is worth living. I was taking Cymbalta 60 mg and I was having few mild side effects. One of them was tiredness. I could sleep for 9 hours or even more but I was still feeling tired. I could deal with it because I was getting some help. Another side effect was that I was pretty unfocused during my work and I was running out of energy. However, not so long ago I’ve dropped down from 60 mg to 30 mg and once I’ve done this change I noticed a big difference in the way I’m feeling. My anxiety and depression didn’t returned at all, I could keep it under control but the best thing is that both the side effects I was having disappeared. Now, after more than 3 years of being on this medication I’m thinking about weaning off it completely soon. I’m pretty confident about it since getting down my dose from 60 mg to 30 mg was a very good change. I really hope that few more months on this medication would be enough for me and I will be off all the medications. I do know that everybody in particular has different withdrawal effects when getting off a medicine and for how long it will affect. Anyway, I’m very happy with this medication and the way it works, I’m very glad that I’ve found it and I hope that it will help you too. I can say that Cymbalta saved my life.
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I was having anxiety and stress for few years. I could not resist living that way and went to a doctor who prescribed me this medication. Indeed, everything was good, it worked fine and I didn’t experience any side effects. In general everything was great but this was for a limited time. After 5 years of taking it I started to develop something that initially I thought it was a yeast infection. My situation was getting continuously worse and worse for 7 months. My doctor was running out of ideas what she needs to do about it. She treated me 3 times for a yeast infection with 3 different meds, after all 3 failures she decided to send me to a gynecologist who also was useless. Initially I thought that the gynecologist would help me but after my first visit to him I understood that he won’t as he told me that he never seen something like that before so he said I need to do a biopsy. Few days of waiting and all my hopes were vanished when he said that all results are negative. It was a time I hardly want to remember. I was living for months I didn't want to go anywhere or to do anything because I just couldn't normally walk or sit down. I quit my job and I was staying in bed for weeks! I just thank god for such a loving husband that took care of me for all that time. Even so, my situation was getting worse, that rash went down until it reached my inner thighs. After a lot of visits to doctors, medicines taken and money and time waste I was told that I may have to live with it for the rest of my life. I could not believe it. How I was supposed to live that way? Everything they recommended is to try to boost up my immune system and that’s it. I was taking vitamins every day and I even tried not to use toilet paper but wipes instead them. Nothing helped! I could not resist any more when I started to an itching all over there! I went to a completely different doctor who FINALLY said that I had tinnitus 4 years ago. This doctor is the only one who told me that there’s a chance that Cymbalta is responsible for all of this as a result of side effect. Now I’m fine, but I swear I’ll never take this medication again or any other without reading the possible side effects it can have! Learn from my mistakes and do some research prior to take medications!
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I use Cymbalta for about 4 years already. 60 mg at night before I go to sleep, each day. Very effective drug! 4 years ago my doctor diagnosed me with major depression and put me on this medication right away. This medication helps me to sleep better, to enjoy my life, to eat better and generally to feel much better. It helps me with my mood and it stopped my every day nightmares. It has some little side effects though: I’m having occasional night sweats and weakness but it is not very hard to deal with. Soon I’m going to try to deal with my anxiety and depression without this drug as my doctor thinks I can make through it. Hope I won’t have severe withdrawal symptoms since I’m on this drug for a pretty long time. Good luck everyone.
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I'm suffering from severe anxiety and depression for more than 3 years. Cymbalta came out to be the best medicine for me out of many others I have tried in all this time. My situation was getting worse with each day and I was feeling how my life slowly finishes. I had serious suicidal thoughts and I was thinking that there is nothing that could help me after I’ve visited a lot of doctors and have tried a lot of medicines. Few months ago, my doc prescribed me Ativan mixed with Cymbalta. Later, due to its cost and my low budget, I’ve told my doc to exclude one of them and he recommended me to continue my treatment only with Ativan. In less than half a month, my depression returned and that was the first time when I thought that Cymbalta is my only salvation. That is because those few weeks of taking it were the best since my depression started and until I’ve started to take back Cymbalta few weeks ago. I’m not taking Ativan anymore because I’ve noticed that it doesn’t work on me. Finally, my anxiety and depression is under control and I have my life back! This medicine has literally saved my life and I’m very thankful to it! Oh yes, and I have no side effects so far compared to others anti depressants I was taking before. Usually, by this time of taking a medication, side effects already could be seen. Thankfully, not with this one.
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My doctor prescribed 30 mg of Cymbalta per day, I went on taking the medicine for 1 months without feeling any changes. Then she increased the dose to 60 mg a day, now I feel the results. Even if I feel a little dizzy sometimes, my depression is now behind and I cannot be more happy than that.
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I was prescribed Cymbalta because I was struggling depression, I used to have panic attacks and cry for no reasons, also I had chest pain and fast heart beats, it was crazy. After Cymbalta treatment all that went away and I can enjoy life, I am able to be happy because of small things, I feel alive again.
As side effects, I was a little tired during the day after taking the drug.
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