Posted by West on August 9, 2008, at 18:23:14
In reply to Re: Which is superior... tried Pristiq?, posted by dcruik518 on August 4, 2008, at 7:23:52
Hi
I know it's kind of obsolete posting this now but i thought i'd provide a bit of an update. Begun taking 30mg of cymbalta (absurdly named 'xeristar' here in the UK) and have been feeling in a heavy fog and have cold sweaty armpits, bonus is i can't sleep either, although that i am used to.
The serotonin effect is a relief after 6 months off antidepressants and a relapse into dead-land with sleepless nights tossing and turning with phantom bed itches and awful restless thoughts. Unfortunately we don't have the cleaved d-isomer of venlafaxine available for our delectation in this country at present.
My ideas are no more sophisticated than considering wacking bupropion in there or changing to effexor and doing the same. I chose cymbalta (over effexor) to avoid side effects, but if the primary 'mood' of cymbalta is of a semi-comatose sweat pig i really have to question the decision. I have heard of people reporting better memory and feeling more 'with it' on cymbalta, which i confess confuses me as it brings me to doubt whether they were technically alive-with-pulse-humans on effexor prior to C.
I don;t think this can be IT. The end of the line. I don't want to feel like this forever. Perhaps anyone who has championed either in combination with wellbutrin could pipe up with some super-sky-rocketingly positive accounts? Also there's the enzyme issue which apparently raises blood levels of both - or is this no so ?
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