Gabapentin and Cymbalta

I was probably doing wishful thinking but think there is/was a connection…When I looked at my blood sugar history, I noticed in the timeline that the very time I started having neuropathy’s “tingling” in my back, legs and feet I STOPPED taking meformin’s LONG ACTING and started taking the SHORT ACTING metformin! Is it a coincidence because the time I started the short acting metformin I also STOPPED immediately taking any fish oil. I used to take 2g daily (2 large gel caps) when I was supposed to take 4 total.

Anyway, I took the fish oil religiously for the entire time I was diagnosed diabetic. UNTIL I could no longer swallow the gel caps. So no more fish oil (omega 3??)

It took from 11/21 to present to do the most damage (at least ‘most’ to my mind)neuropathy wise. Pain related is how I gauge the neuropathy. That and by disability/dysfunction. So that is the exact amount of time I’ve been off long acting Metformin AND fish oil. So there is a link between not having the control of blood sugar AND fish oil as a mylen protector. Ask your doctor about both issues as a diabetic and consumer of fish oil (if you do, and do ‘both’). I did both then just short acting which didn’t help in the middle when my after meal numbers “may” have been elevated to be considered high (neuro thought that when I recently saw her the part about elevated blood sugar and neuropathy…she said “the sugar eats at the coating (mylin)” So I want to put the neuropathy on a diet.

The diet: long acting diabetic medication and fish oil and attention to diet and nutrician and vitamins…

Just your average Jane looking to thwart pains of Neuropathy ANY way I can. I can’t have it get worse. If it did I would not survive it.