Posted by 4WD on September 6, 2004, at 17:32:17
In reply to Cymbalta Journal, posted by 4WD on September 4, 2004, at 15:58:30
Day Four 9-6-04
Cymbalta 30mg (a.m.)
I slept great last night. No insomnia. I usually have a problem falling asleep but I am doing well these last three nights.
Still no side effects except for the high pitched tone in my head (I think this is a rare side effect - it happens to me also with Effexor but not with SSRIs.) Some dry mouth is all.
My libido is returning!!!!I actually feel twinges of wanting to have sex.
My mood is not subtantially improved. I still feel rather grim most of the day and have some mild anxiety in the morning. This is peaking earlier now, though, and is going away sooner.
Normally I would feel my worst about 4-5 pm and start to feel gradually better until by bedtime I would feel fairly okay. Today I started feeling better by about 4pm. (I get up about 10, go to bed about 1)I am still experiencing some twinges of anguish/grief sort of feelings now and then. They only last a short while. I think it is normal for me to be feeling this as my father died two months ago and the Effexor did not allow me to experience much grief.
I am experiencing an increase in physical energy. I am not as slow-moving; I don't have as much of that "heavy as lead" and hard-to-drag-myself-around feeling. I still don't have much motivation to do anything with the energy, though.
No improvement in anhedonia. Still no desire to engage in "formerly pleasurable activities."
Subjectively, I don't think I can say I feel much better. Objectively, I have done some things today and yesterday that surprise me. I went to the gym two days in a row (treadmill 30 minutes)and I have trimmed dead leaves off some potted plants that have been needing it for months. That doesn't sound like much, even to me, but it's something.
Marsha
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