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Cymbalta was not worth it for me. It did help with the pain depression I was in and that is it. I took it for 3months. It took me 2weeks to get use to it and 2 weeks to ween off of it. The highest dose I took was 30 mg. The brain fog was way worse and I was exhausted all the time.
It only hepled with pain the fist week I was on it.

Good luck with getting off it. Make sure u slowly ween off it.
Diane

It definitely helps with the pain and my depression is better, I'm just so absent-minded anymore it is ridiculous!

Agree, also tried Lyrica , neurontin and about everything else. All makes me number and foggy. Is there anything out there????

I have also had the brain fog on Cymbalta when I first started taking 30mg but then went on to 60mg and I am fine now. I have been on it for 2 years already and wouldn't like to stop because the pain and depression are under control now.

I do OK on Cymbalta, taken for my depression rather than the fibro. I'm sorry it's not helping you. Keep looking for something that does help. I know that what works for me may not work for you and vice versa.

Hang in there.

I am really confused about cymbalta. I am not sure it has helped at all with pain - oh except for this excruciating ear pain I used to get but no longer do.

I now wake up with muscle spasms and twitches. My blood pressure has gone up so now I am on 2 BP meds.

I am sooo tired most days especially in the afternoons. Am not sure if it's because of cymbalta or something else.

I am tossing up whether to go off cymbalta and back on citalopram (have been on it for 3 years for depression). As you know, it's not an easy process getting of cymbalta :(

Forgot to mention that 18 mths ago I was dx with Coeliac disease which accounted for the fatigue and brain fog - or so I hoped! Unfortunately neither the fog or the fatigue have improved. I think they did initially but not long after I went on cymbalta it got worse, together with all these weird neurological symptoms that mademe think I had ms ( which I don't have ).

Fibrofog has got me worried. I recently enrolled in an online brain training program. I am finding it fun and enjoyable and hopefully it is improving the pathways in my brain :). It's called lumosity. It costs about $7 per month.

I am an engineer (struggling to keep my job) and some days have trouble just navigating the server at work!

I was on Cymbalta for around 3 weeks - it helped the fibro pain for the first 2 weeks, but the side effects were terrible for me. It seemed to mess with my brain. I couldn't think straight and I became agitated.

If I were you, I'd talk to your doctor - I think it is med that is causing the forgetfulness and brain fog.

I am so thankful that you all posted on cymbalta, my doctor was asking me about this and I said no, I'll stick with the effexor. Then I tried Lyrica, yeah it helped with the pain but the fog and who I became was awful, the rhum increased it never followed up and I went to total insomnia, And was in a FFFFOOOOGGGG.... the whole time I was on it. Would also like to warn everyone about savella. I only made it through 3 doses, they told me it was compatiable with the effexor it felt more like the Lyrica. My co-workers could not belive the difference in me when I weaned off of it. Truly I think some of the meds make our fog worse. Good luck.

Thanks for all the input. I'll consider talking to my dr. about the cymbalta at my next appt. Just hate to switch meds when the pain is under control.

cymbalta did nothing for me! but now i am on a combo of gabapentin, lodine, and prozac. i feel worlds better. the prozac in combo with ambian oh, i love you. i actually sleep. as we all know for a fibro, if you don't sleep well, you pain spirals out of control.