Cymbalta... - Multiple Sclerosis Message Board

daznconfzd · 04-22-2007, 02:55 PM

I'm taking Cymbalta for pain due to MS, but its making me feel weird. I feel like my eyes are very wide open all the time. My family & friends said I look like im totally out of it. Has anyone else had this effect?

SRSuper · 04-23-2007, 04:27 PM

DUDE
i am on cymbalta too just started 3 days ago
the first day i was so apathetic it was awful
the 2nd and third day i am anxious as hell totally on edge.
maybe your anxiety manifests in your eye muscles being tense. mine is in my neck and shoulders and back...
let me know how ur doing. r u taking 30mgs or 60?

daznconfzd · 04-23-2007, 07:31 PM

Still having that weird eye feeling. I'm on 60mg day. I have read other message boards where people are having the same effect.

Pearlscale · 04-23-2007, 10:13 PM

Just wanted to chime in. I was given samples of cymbalta to try for my pain. I took one dose of 30mgs and slept 3 hrs and lay awake the rest of the night with a weird, tired, needing more sleep but yet wired and couldn't possible get more sleep. The next day, decided I wasn't going to try it again. I'll watch this thread. Maybe I should try it again, but I'm not sure if I dare.

Prayers....Marsha

No, dicided I won't after I saw SRSuper's post.

SRSuper · 04-24-2007, 03:57 PM

well i lasted 3 days on the stuff.
first day i was massively depressed- so much so that i had no emotions whatsoever, no anger, no sadness, no grief, no anxiety. that should have been scary but it just didnt matter.
second day was a bit more normal but by the end of that day i was a ball of nerves, and the next day was a 12 hour anxiety attack of shaking, sweating, racing heart, headaches, darting vision....
basically i went bipolar in 24 hours.
no more cymbalta for me. damnit.