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Has anyone tried Cymbalta on here for serious anxiety? did you take it a night or in the morning? I am afriad to try another med but I am going out of my mind with anxiety and picking my skin....just looking for some advice!
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
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I'm trying to exercise daily. I was doing fairly well until I sprained my ankle 2 weeks ago but now I'm getting back on the horse. Today I walked over a mile with my arm weights that are about 22lbs total. I was out of shape and it was hard on my arms. I also did my 30 situps. I'm also going to drink a lot of water and try to eat healthy. I do tend to have a sweet tooth but I'm cutting...
I went to my firsts (#1) dermatologist-diagnosis folliculitis and RXd antibiotic and Finacea Cream. The medicine made no difference. A year later, thinking Derm #1 did not have a clue I went to Derm #2: same diagnosis and same medical treatment! Same out come!
I asked my spinal surgeon, my pain management doctor and my physical therapist if they had ever seen such a thing and all said NO with perplexing looks on their faces. My PT gave me the name of another dermatologist (#3) who was over 70 y.o. and worked at the CDC most of his career.
When he looked at it he stated I have never seen such a thing Now that was scary! He did a swab and it came back FLORA. He compounded a medication, being on Medicare, I could not afford the whole RX so the pharmacist gave me a portion and it started to heal but as soon as the meds were done I was back to square one-with a vengeance now.
Fast forward to 2011 and I move back home to New England because my physical condition was getting worse and wanted to be near family. My mother was aware of my back lesions and felt bad. Now, on Thanksgiving Day I broke my ankle leaving my brothers house. When they removed the first cast I will be damn the doctor said What are theseit was the lesions on my back now on my extremities. OMG, right???
My Moms cousin came to visit, his wife is a nurse, she looked at it and was just OMG what is that. He, the cousin, states put VICKS on it. The only thing in my medicine chest I did not try. After six weeks of applying VICKS 2 times a day it went away on my back! Could not believe it. I was still in cast so could not get to that area.
Now, the cast comes off and my leg is covered with the lesions and pustules! And, its now showing on other legthen both lower arms!!!! I tried VICKS to no avail. Must have built up antibody or something. So I go to see a doctor who is from the Philippines, thinking perhaps its a fungus from dirt and he was from a jungle area and perhaps seen it before.
He had treated me when I was in rehab with broken ankle. He was not happy I told him this happened under cast while at Rehab and quickly gave me some antibiotics to get rid of me. He did say he had seen it before and the cause was playing in the dirt which made sense as I did lots of gardening while in the South.
My PCP here in N.E. performed 2 diff punch biopsies which came back inconclusive: possible lichen planus or lichen striation. RX'd with steroid cream- no help!
The PCP had sent me to a new shrink this summer-of course I showed him the lesions and he had no answer. He told me CYMBALTA was a crap medicine and wanted to wean me off of it. Okay, as you wish.
So.as I go down from 60mg to 50mg to 40mg to 30mg to 20mg to 10mg (which is hellish, no lie) the LESIONS START TO DISAPPEAR! At 10mg and the start of my new antidepressant NO MORE LESIONS!!!!
I know this is a bit of a long story but if you have lesions and pustules, both concave and convex in nature, with no physical feel to them (i.e. itch) and have tried everything and are on CYMBALTA you are ALLERGIC and must get off of it immediately!!!!
Do not go thru the 7 years of hell I went thru. I hope this helps you or perhaps someone you know who is suffering such as I have suffered. I am now left with major scarring all over my extremities and my lower back and buttocks. This is small price to pay to have no more of the stuff growing on me!
I started out taking it at night, but then I couldnt sleep. So i take it in the morning now