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Re: Cymbalta vs Amitriptyline

Posted by tonyz on May 25, 2010, at 13:45:38

In reply to Re: Cymbalta vs Amitriptyline » tonyz, posted by Phillipa on May 25, 2010, at 13:20:22

Thanks for your reply Phillipa. I don't have tremendous confidence in my doctor, but the other option is hospitalization as an in patient which kind of scares me.

I have very poor memory and disrupted sleep. I worry about serotonin syndrome and shock.

He says that cymbalta is the best anti-depressant and that I have a problem releasing control to the doctor, but how can you trust someone who prescribes luvox and doesn't tell you about coffee or who never heard of cerofolin.

I make suggestions for myself which he had agreed with but then I don't react well to my own suggestions.

Combinations that worked in the past don't seem to be effective now, but I've never given them a chance to work.

I spent several weeks in the hospital as an outpatient and was on lithium, seroquel and nortriptyline, and trileptal. The doctor reduced my nortriptyline to a non-therapeutic level. I kept saying I wasn't getting any better - they wanted me to go inpatient.

If I go inpatient the doctor in the hospital probably doesn't spend that much time with you to figure out what's wrong.

I am afraid to take matters in my own hand and am at the point where making decisions is very difficult. It has been a downhill slide since January.

The doctor is even talking about ECT.


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