Posted by PartlyCloudy on October 29, 2010, at 18:30:07
In reply to Re: pristiq to cymbalta? » PartlyCloudy, posted by floatingbridge on October 28, 2010, at 22:07:53
I'm on vacation out of town, but with my laptop (more for my husband than for me, though I did update my blog). It's a blessing how quickly the Cymbalta seems to be taking effect. My back has been fairly quiet this week and if anything, feeling better as the anxieties of the past several weeks and months have been helped by this short time away.
I have always responded very positively, almost euphorically, to acupuncture. Even as a teenager I sought relief from my migraine headaches and in the big city's Chinatown I found an alternative to the heavy duty pain relievers that my family doctor had resorted to prescribing for me.
Accepting that life will always have these ebbs and flows of triggers and good and not so good times has been critical to my overall improvement. Knowing that the not so good times will have their place just as those times when I can catch up on all I wish to accomplish - indeed, respecting that the balance of life requires the down as well as the up - that makes a big difference. It was only a few short weeks ago that I was frankly contemplating the peace that the absolute end of my life would bring. It was this out of order (for me) thinking that alerted me that my medications were not working as well as they should have been. I'm not one who regularly thinks about ending my life, but between the pain and the depression it felt perfectly normal to be doing so. Normal, indeed.
So doing this transition from Pristiq to Cymbalta, during my vacation, wasn't the greatest of timing, but I wasn't able to reschedule the holiday; the medication change sure wouldn't be put off another moment. All in all it's gone relatively well.
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