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Originally Posted by mrsD
Hopeful... I am going to suggest you try something.
If you have some Sudafed PE or regular...brand or generic on hand, or want to buy some (generic is less $$). 30mg tablets for sudafed or 10mg tables for PE (phenylephrine).
Your Cymbalta has two components, a norepi reuptake and the serotonin one.
If you have NO problems with blood pressure etc, you could try one of the phenylephrines in the morning and see if your day is less painful. I discovered this effect when I had my sinus neck problem I had to take some of this medication to open my blocked sinus and I found it helped tremendously with my pain issues too. This would lessen the withdrawal of the norepi part of the Cymbalta. I think the discontinuance agonies for this drug that we see online are because of the dual action of the product. If you don't see any benefit, then just save them for a rainy day cold or sinus attack in the future.
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Hi Mrs. D.
Thanks for the articles. As I'm writing this , my husband is on his way to the drugstore for the sudafed. PE. What you say makes sense. I'm going to give it a try. I'll keep u posted. Hopefully, it will help. I may not trying it till tomorrow. It is 2:30 pm here. I'm having so much trouble sleeping with all of this, I don't want to risk it making that worse.
I have been taking Benadryl that last 4 nights to sleep and realized the morning that's not the right answer for me. I woke with a major headache and congested sinuses this morning.
Thanks again for all u do!
ps: no B/P issues