My doc gave it to me for pain.
Took it for a while and it did not help, then I quit it and it made me feel crazy.
It may have stuck. 👻😜👻
Anyway, it made me very wary of what doctors just order up and what drives them to do so.
I recently quit taking the meds that I have taken for years for diabetes.
They only make your cells more insulin resistant over time.
It’s no good when they stop working so why take them?
I lost 15 lbs in a month and while my A1c is high it is more stable and I see it coming down....intermittent fasting and very low carb is improving things better than the meds that had quit working at all.
It’s that going off of them when they really do make you crazy. The patient and the people around them go through hell, especially if the patient has been on them for a while.
Duloxetine is very effective for me. But forgetting even one dose sends my night brain to absolutely unbelievable heights of dreaming. I concoct complex tales that I couldn’t even conceive of in my waking state. Sometimes jokes, puns, and riveting story lines that deserve a book or movie. I swear it has even taken me to the future. (Yep, still Uber and swipe credit cards, and bars if you’re interested.) Driving back from DC after Jan 6th I had forgotten to bring it, so was 3 or 4 days without. I took a quick snooze in a parking lot with pleochroic, rainbow-like ribbons falling onto my truck like confetti, until a cop knocked on my window. Sometimes I miss a dose deliberately for the entertainment.