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I took mother to the psych NP today. She has horrible insomnia and has tried many meds. Plus her usual need for anti anxiety and depression meds. We discussed the pain situation with her back, and our reluctance to sign up for more procedures, pain pump etc. I brought up palliative care and she thought it reasonable. We will ask pcp about it. She is also changing her antidepressant to Cymbalta because her mood has gone down hill and also in hopes it will help with the pain. I’m slightly hopeful, but not counting on the pain solution being as simple as a new antidepressant.

Cymbalta relieved my mother of her neuropathy nerve pain when nothing else on earth touched it. She had to be weaned off of it, however, because it made her dementia much worse. Read up on Cymbalta for pain. It's great for lower back pain and muscular skeletal pain, anxiety and depression etc. Do note, however, it's very hard to come off of Cymbalta w/o bad side effects, so mom should never stop the med cold turkey.

Good luck to you.
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I recommend Facebook site "Cymbalta Hurts Worse".
About a year ago I went to doc with worsening nerve pain in a neck with decades long issues from whiplash. At the same time my BP was higher daily than it had been and I felt a bit more anxious. The doc wanted to try low dose (think 20 mg) cymbalta.

I took one pill and had explosive watery diarrhea so severe I couldn't really move off the toilet for about a day. Was as though I had zero control of my sphincter. I googled and found out not horrible unusual. I stopped the pill, called doc and told her I can handle pain and anxiety, but I won't try to handle that stuff.

I then joined the above FB group, and wow, was I ever not along in vicious side effects. Worse still was that many couldn't get off the stuff without "counting beads", and slowly titrating down day by day over the period of a year.

Be certain you want to try this stuff. I am not saying it's a bad drug. I am saying what happened to me and what I read from others. This may be a magical pill for your loved one and desperate times call for desperate measures. Just filling you in on my own experience.
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Oedgar23 Jun 20, 2024
I’d actually heard about this and brought it up to the NP. We both just cautioned mother she can’t stop abruptly, skip a dose etc. It does make me nervous though
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I knew 2 People on Cymbalta they got bad shakes and Mini seizures - twitching . Not a drug I would recommend personally .
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I’m on Cymbalta for pain. I don’t think it or any other antidepressant helps for pan.
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Oedgar23 Jun 21, 2024
I’m sorry it’s not helped, but I appreciate your reply. I am not convinced mother’s pain for which she’s been on lots of narcotics, gaba pentin, and muscle relaxers and had MBB injections and a spinal nerve ablation will be relieved by Cymbalta. Kinda sounds too good to be true.
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