lately I have been getting the painful depression. I haven't been fooling around with my medications. when I eat ice cream i am not depressed while i am eating it. today i go for the eye exam. I am not as worried as before. I am worried about something else but not as worried as before and it has to do with money. I feel as if I am ready to cry but tears won't come. I wish I could cry. i feel like a cry baby without the tears

Have you ever tried cymbalta for pain and depression?
I am sorry you can't cry.
(((((HUGS)))))
bizi

I don't think I have ever tried that. I will ask my pdoc. The eye exam went well. I need a stronger prescription but no damage from diabetes etc. The cataracts are still little.He told me to watch the first 10 minutes of the steven cobert show on cbs at 11:30 at night when he trashes Trump. He said it is hilarious. He also said there is a cartoon website which I would probably enjoy. He said off the ice cream and maybe get a recumbent indoor bike.

a former friend called me from my past. I hadn't spoken to her in over 25 years. she is a great grandmother now. She married young and had children young.. when it gets cooler we will get together we will get together for lunch. Her family always has tons of problems and it never stopped. Her two daughter are divorced and one was beaten by her husband. Her close friend and hair dresser died of aids. Her son married somebody from Kiev who stopped working and wants to come here and who he now supports. He is an obsessive compulsive. Her ex husband is 95- He is still a part of her life. I realize I missed hearing all the vicissitudes of her life. She wasn't a good listener. I am sort of shaken by her phone call. I mentioned that I was bipolar but she didn't seem to comment and I told I had a stroke and she said how her ex husband who I knew had had three.
I see my pdoc this thursday. I can't wait to see what he says about cymbalta. My antidepressants don't work and I am so depressed.

Bobby,

Sorry that the antidepressants don't work.


M

That is interesting...25 years from the past is a long time.
good luck with her.
bizi

I have been just so sad

I am sorry you have been sad.

Does listening to music help?
((((HUGS))))
bizi

nothing seems to help except the kitty cats

I am glad that you have them to love and comfort you.
bizi

I'm so sorry that you are sad and depressed, Bobby :hug::hug::hug:

I hope that your pdoc is open to the Cymbalta. I think Donna takes it???

I'm 37, and have small cataracts. My eye doctor told me I have to do a better job of wearing sunglasses.I have transitions.

Are you still reading?

yes..I am still reading. I just went on another spending spree. I bought a lot of new prescription glasses that were on sale. I couldn't control myself and they were good deals...a new prescription. I don't know when mine started forming. He showed me what they looked like. Cecilia takes it ...60 mg and she said it makes her happy. I just found out. She had me over yesterday and gave me more tiramisu.

I called my former friend and we will probably get together this saturday. I kept on warning her I was really fat! I am sure she is still beautiful and trim. She still takes exercise classes. I am getting excited!
bobby

I take 120mg of Cymbalta in the morning for pain and depression and it has been helping me. It's kept me out of the hospital for the last 2 years. I think it might be worth bringing it up with your pdoc as an option. But we all react differently to different medications.

thank you so much. I am glad for you. I hope it will be the solution for me. I have been so depressed and sad for so long and fearful and uncomfortable and don't feel like leaving my apartment even to go out in the hall.

I hope that your pdoc will prescribe it for you, Bobby. Your meds have not been helping you enough... maybe this will be the magic bullet for you... :hug::hug::hug:

I haven't taken cymbalta for a few years. But the reason was because
it was not something I could take with my cancer medication.
So I had to go on something else.

Now I could go back on it. But so far I haven't needed to.

Donna :hug::grouphug:

robert is coming over tomorrow and putting together the bike on the condition I use every day. I told him I will try. My weight bounced back up. I am not worried about my eyes now and I just got approved by scrie a rent freeze in NYC which I have been on for years for my rent to stay the same. now I am just worried that my doctor won't approve of cymbalta and that it won't work.
It sounds so good. My sleep is so much better with xanax and I hardly take an afternoon nap. I have been having very vivid dreams. Last night they were about my sister and a guy I used to have a crush on. I read that he died. He was an actor and I had met him at the squash club where I met my friend who I will see on saturday. I am taking alice out on her birthday on the 9th. I am looking forward to that. I am still very sad and depressed

He put me on 30 mg of cymbalta to start and 1/2 the dose of zoloft and I am sure about wellbutrin but I told him they didn't work. He tried to me into upping the zoloft and I said I don't think it would work. he said the cymbalta could affect my blood pressure. i am on pills for high blood pressure so I don't know if that will counteract the effect. i don't think the 30 will help.

Good luck with this start Bobby

You have to try it to know.

Donna :hug::grouphug:

It is a start at least. I hope that it gives a little bit of an improvement for you. If this little step doesn't help they still have plenty of room to work with. Best of luck.

what is a therapeutic dose of cymbalta?
bizi

i am not sure

I looked up the therapeutic dosages and it said 60mg/day is effective in most cases, but it can be prescribed up to 120mg/day.

Alaina is right. 30mg is just to start. There is room to move if it doesn't help right away. You are on other meds that may need to be/could be adjusted to make the Cymbalta work better, too.

I really hope it helps you. I'm happy that for once, your pdoc has agreed to step out of the box and try something different. The meds you were taking were not working for you :hug::hug::hug:

Personally the doctor's like to start at a lower dosage to make sure
you can adjust to the theurapeutic dosage.

SO I think the 30mg is a good dosage to start at.

Donna :hug::grouphug:

Thanks kay!
bizi

I dragged myself out of bed at 10:15. I had weird dreams.. I am so scared of meeting zeynep for lunch. It was like yesterday when I said the bad comment about her daughter to her.

you could bring it up and apologize to her for your comment.
Maybe you could do that.
I hope you meet up with her.
((((HUGS))))
bizi

I don't want to bring it up. I don't think she forgot. She triggered me and I didn't think of the implications of what I said. She was never a good listener when I had problems. I think that was part of why I said what I said. She had hurt me. It was also being bipolar. I have been asking God for forgiveness. I have a very tough superego

It went great with Zeynep today. We talked about getting together again. She looks the same after 23 years..maybe she is a bit thinner. It didn't seem like 23 years.

I am glad the you had a good visit with her.so happy to hear of this.
(((HUGS))))
bizi

Robert was supposed to come over and finish the remainder of the recumbent bike. He didn't contact me and didn't come. He came over on thursday and I thought he would bring Mickey. Cecilia invited me over to dinner and I said yes.
I don't know if Robert's feelings were hurt because Mickey has cancer and Robert hates Cecilia and and I didn't wait fifteen minutes while he went to get Mickey and meet him downstairs to say hi to Mickey. I wrote him an email at seven saying that Cecilia had invited me over to dinner and I thought he was going to bring Mickey up to my apartment. I wonder if I am going to throw the half completed bike out. Both Cecilia and Robert can be very difficult and have short fuses. It is extremely awful to be dependent on them.

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Don’t throw the bike out, Bobby. You would only be punishing yourself. I think it would be great for you. If Robert is indeed upset, I bet he will get over it fairly quickly :hug:

I’m glad that you had a good visit with your friend. I’m glad that you didn’t bring up the comment about her daughter. She seems ready to move on from it, so you should put it behind you, too :hug:

I haven't heard from him yet today. Today is the first day I tried the cymbalta.
My pulse is high but not my blood pressure.

robert is coming over at four thirty. I am so relieved. I tried to tell myself that God was in control. I will also ask him to test my blood pressure monitor and pulse. I feel nauseated

I am sorry you are feeling nauseated, hate that!


bizi

Robert spent two hours and finished putting together the bike. I applauded him three times. I feel sick. My depression and loneliness got worse instead of better. My blood pressure and pulse was better when he was here. The kitty cats
give me comfort.

Glad that robert was able to finish your bike!....sorry you are not feeling well, nausea still?
((((HUGS))))
bizi

still not feeling well but less sad. went on the bike for four minutes

Sending good thoughts.

Donna :hug::grouphug: