Posted by bleauberry on May 29, 2012, at 17:04:18
In reply to Is this thyroid or adrenal? More problems..., posted by uncouth on May 28, 2012, at 19:15:43
I am not real knowledgable on the thyroid stuff but I think your symptoms do fit within that realm so it maybe should get more priority than it has been getting....more frequent visits, more testing, more adjusting. Could be pituitary, which controls the other glands, and there is a way to test whether it is one or the other malfunctioning.
I wish doctors could give us the answers you seek so we don't have to wonder.
Personally I would favor savella over cymbalta by a long shot. Since it is fairly new in the USA and is approved for fibromyalgia (even though it is an antidepressant across the rest of the world) I think maybe doctors don't think of it first. The cymbalta folks have massive marketing campaigns pushing it. Sometimes I see someone with a fairly decent result with it but it doesn't seem that often. I do remember reading somewhere else about someone who combined cymbalta with wellbutrin and it worked and then added savella to that and it was remission. There's an idea for you. Maybe instead of this med or that, maybe two or three. Not sure the memantine is doing anything good for you but you be the judge.
For the insomnia, I wonder what if you took very small doses of a variety of sedating meds all at the same time. I'm thinking something bizarre like maybe 6mg remeron, 5mg amitriptyline, 12mg seroquel, and one or two others. Looking for that magical synergy where the sum is greater than the parts.
I don't know, one of the side effects of high dose savella is sleep disturbance. At lower doses however I found it to be great for sleep beginning at about one week. It definitely felt like some endocrine stuff was being manipulated. A person in the clinical trials said after they were done (9 months) their body temperature problems had resolved. And of course since it does do some good in fibromyalgia folks, which is a bizarre multifaceted disease, we know it has some wide ranging impact in the human biology.
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