Cymbalta sucks dot com
My mother was prescribed Cymbalta for her peripheral neuropathy and depression two months ago. You have to love a drug that says on the front page of its website, we don’t know how the drug works. But what about a doctor who prescribes a medicine that clearly states you should not drink alcohol with it – prescribed to a woman who is an alcoholic. He says she told him she quit drinking.
Side effects: When discontinuing treatment with Cymbalta, the manufacturer recommends a gradual reduction in the dose, rather than abrupt cessation, whenever possible.
Today, I called her doctor and spoke to his nurse and said I wanted him to file a report with Ely Lilly about the adverse effects of this drug and also to rethink his care for my mother. This is a doctor who teaches at a medical university here and has a reputation – but what? for two months he is deaf to the effects of Cymbalta in one of his patients and then tells her to abruptly stop using it! He should have been in the emergency room for 10 hours – then maybe he would see what his decisions lead to.
She has had two blood tests with liver levels moving higher in the last two months; she was prescribed Cymbalta for neuropathy and depression but the scientific community doesn’t believe it works for neuropathy or for depression.
Wiki says this about Cymbalta (the other name for Cymbalta is Duloxetine):
Duloxetine failed the US approval for stress urinary incontinence amidst the concerns about liver toxicity and suicidal events; however, it was approved for this indication in Europe and Canada. Duloxetine alleviates pain associated with diabetic neuropathy and fibromyalgia; however, its efficacy relative to the established treatments, such as anticonvulsantsand tricyclic antidepressants, has not been established.
A large number of side effects occurring during duloxetine treatment and lack of clear advantage over existing medications prompted critical reviews concluding that duloxetine “should not be used” for stress urinary incontinence[2] and “currently has no place in the treatment of depression or diabetic neuropathy” as well.[3][4]
July 13th, 2009 at 9:56 am
My “favorite” part of their website: “How Cymbalta Is Believed to Work!”