Has anyone used Cymbalta for nerve pain?

Yes, I used Cymbalta for like 2 years, but it didn’t work, now I’m using Gabapentin ( Neurontin ) and it’s been much better, when we suffer from chronic pain it’s a long journey, where we need to be able to be patient,
No one really understand what we are going through because they don’t feel our pain, take care yourself, hugs and kisses, ☺️❤️😘🙏😘🙏❤️

Cymbalta is very very difficult to get off of. I saw this in a friend who got yo a certain low dose and she had such a flare, she had to go back on. Its a very long term solution. It is noted elsewhere, several valid sources, that it can be addictive to the body. She tried a painfully slowly, under dr supervision, to do the slow reduction and still never did get off of it. Investigate before going on. I have been offered this drug for CRPS by my doc. When I explained my research, and did her own, she told me she wouldn't order it again. Good luck. Always view ling term effects. Drs dont know human experience all the time. They are told by drug reps its safe.

I just read of a very commonly used nasal spray for asthma that they have known for decades!!! is harmful to the brain and cognition and just now, like this week, decades later, the FDA finally pulled it. Decades!

Did they mean it could cause alzheimer like symptoms or alzheimers itself. Didn't day but same symptoms. Tje drug comoany has known for DECADES. I'm clearly blown away by this. Widely used. Huge money maker. They fid.t care the human toll ignored it. For decades! Yikes.

Drug reps are prostitutes of sorts. Avoid info to make a sale. Not always out drs fault but please read about cymbalta. Its a long, maybe life long, commitment. Just saying. Always due diligence. Thanks for the rant. I am so angry about this nasal spray and the lack of humanity. Even if sued, they know they will come out ahead.

Hello,

Up until about three months ago I was taking Cymbalta for nerve pain from Cervical Spinal Stenosis. I was prescribed 60mg in the morning and 30mg at bedtime - I was taking that amount for about 7 years . I will say I believe it was helping but looking back 60mg a day worked better- Cymbalta is a SSNI or something like that that Serotonin is a big part of it. I was also taking 300mg twice a day which also helps nerve pain and restless legs syndrome and with sleep. But the same newer doctor increased it to 600mg 4 times a day. Looking back increasing it caused issues as it to has Seritonin and it worked better at much smaller doses.
Then after a surgery i was taking Norco which is a opiod with Seritonin ,!. i have major sleep issues and was taking 50mg Benedryl to help with sleep// I couldn’t sleep well and every two hours about 4-5 times I woke up and took 50mg more after 8 hours or so -I woke up confused and completely agitated and scared as something was wrong- my pupils were big and I figured out that benydryl has Seritonin in it and I had Seritonin Syndrome which I’ve never heard of but Seritonin is in so much stuff even over the counter products line Vitamin D3. So happens I should have went ER but I couldn’t think well and was scared. They monitor you and use klonopin to reverse the dangerous issues. I take Klonopin so I took more until the syndrome went away then i read up on how you can die from it.
Basically I could tell Cymbalta was enlarging my pupils and making me agitated and decided to slowly taper off- it took a while but I didn’t realize how it was effecting me until i was off.
Another pain management doctor started me on lyrica and i also take less gabapantine and take lyrica 50 mg three times a day.
Google Seratonin syndrome and seratonin is in so much but never warned about it-
I wont take SSRIs anymore and even though I remember when lower doses of Cymbalta did help, I think Lyrica works much better. just read up on each pill you take and be careful with the Serotonin ingredient- too much can cause death

If you are on Facebook, they have a support group for people trying to get off Cymbalta: "Cymbalta Hurts Worse". You might want to check it out before starting the drug. In 2012, former users filed a class action lawsuit in CA against Eli Lilly because they: “Overstated the efficacy of Cymbalta” and “downplayed and/or failed to state the true withdrawal side effects associated with Cymbalta”, Failed to properly warn patients about the risks and of the “frequency, severity, and/or duration of Cymbalta withdrawal”, Benefitted from patients who started taking Cymbalta again (becoming physically dependent on the drug) to avoid terrible side effects, Advertised the benefits of the drug, even those that were not proven."