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Bones, Joints & Muscles | Last Active: Jun 28 3:00pm | Replies (21)
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@msvjv
I was originally put on cymbalta and lyrica for fibromyalgia and pain from failed back surgery. I did try to taper off, probably too quickly about two years ago ago and had terrible side effects- Brain zap, constant buzzing, depressed, paranoid, jealous….headsches etc, when I had a hip replacement during which my gluteus medius and minimus were cut, detached from bone and atrophied I could not cope and went back on cymbalta for severe anxiety, I am afraid to come off but now my BP is much too high despite lifestyle changes and 3 BP meds. We cannot determine why I am not responding to treatment, would you share how you determine cymbalta was the issue!
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@patgrant Sure. I went to a surgical center to have a procedure on my ankle…injections…which I had had several times. My blood pressure was very high, 200 over 100 something even though I was taking blood pressure meds. When I expressed concern to the nurse, she blew it off as white coat syndrome. I told her I wasn’t nervous that I’d had the procedure many times before and I wasn’t anxious about it. Post procedure my BP had gone down a bit. When I got home, I took it again and it was still too high. Longer story short, I pulled out the information sheets for each of the prescriptions that I was taking at that time… Those that you get when you start a new prescription. On the last page of a two or three page information Document for Cymbalta, was a warning about Increasingly rising blood pressure. I knew Instinctively that it was the Cymbalta causing my blood pressure problem.
If you have the prescribing info that comes with Cymbalta read it all because that one warning is on the last page as I recall. I’m not sure that you can find that info online, but you might try googling and reading the patient information that normally comes along with a new prescription.