Cymbalta Dosage Increase: Hey there everyone! Warm greetings & salutations! :) I've just?

Hi there LiverLips alias Wendy ha! Hope you are doing well. Its hot down here again. Another week of 100 degree plus temperatures, (not including the heat index-factor forever known as the feel like temperature) My current medications although they do a fair job, making life tolerable. Didn't know how else to put it ha! :-0) I am putting on weight. Terrible and I do fill up on lots of water and coffee. What the heck, I'm getting up in years and its not that much of priority. I'll start a thread in another question, this one is buried at the bottom of the stack of comments and so on. Having said all that, I hope you are doing well. As well as your family, two cats right? and hope your husband is also a-ok. Just made a fresh pot of java, I honestly love coffee. I drink far to much, but its one of the pleasures that I treat myself to. If not for the snack attacks, I'd be back on two meals a day. Some years ago, oh 10 or so, it was dinner time and that would be it.

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I still smoked then, but since almost two and a half years now, had to give it up. copd. Tobacco will get you, sooner or later. Well, enjoyed the company, and if anyone can still find this thread, by all means, pull up a chair, coffee is truly some of the finest tasting around this area, Wendy, thanks for the donuts (I've been spelling it "doughnuts" duh!!! ) they were delicious. Enjoyed the company, its always a treat. Be well my friends, and look for a new thread, I'll find a spot to make us a new pot of coffee. :-0)

Hi pledge! Thanks for the much needed coffee break again. It's so great for me to be able to sit around your table with like-minded friends & talk & laugh!

I'm not eating too much at the moment. I believe Cymbalta is suppressing my appetite. So now, I never feel guilty when I have a chocolate eclair with this great java of yours here at your place! LOL I don't take sugar in my coffee & I've also cut out cream (in my coffee~~~NEVER in my eclairs LOL)for quite a while, so this sweet, fresh doughnut really hits the spot! YUM! :)

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I'm Canadian & we spell doughnuts this way. The word "donuts" initially was more slang but is commonplace now & takes few letters to create, so it's more compact & faster to write. Another reason why people abbreviate things now such as: ttyl; bbl; cul; ROFL; etc. We spell "cheques" like this & Americans write "checks". A few slight differences, eh? Ha Ha Ha We're all the same but we're all different. :)

I feel refreshed, revived & revitalized now! Off to conquer the world! LOL

from your full friend, Wendy :)

Thanks, I've been trying to stay away from mints or candy, because I absolutely love peppermints, and they are about 5 calories each. If I ate them for the dry mouth, I'd probably add another 60-70 calories a day to my diet.

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But I found recently my husband was commenting that I raced through the stash of Diet A&W that we had. I didn't really realize I was drinking more than usual. I used to just drink it occasionally, drinking mainly watered-down iced green tea as my standard beverage. I quit drinking the A&W for a couple days and I felt like I had to peel apart my lips, and peel my cheeks from my teeth just to be able to talk. For some reason Diet A&W keeps the dry mouth at bay. It's not the best news, I really don't like to drink a lot of carbonated beverages. But the Cymbalta is helping my fibro pain, and it's helping some with my menopause symptoms... wish it were the hot flashes, it's been over 100 degrees here for the last 3 weeks... 117 yesterday (Texas).

I was running errands and grabbed a drink from the case by the register and ended up with a Diet Coke. No difference to the dry mouth except for right after I'd taken a sip. I don't know why I can get hours and hours of relief from Diet A&W, just sipping it all day. But it's effects even last when I switch over to tea or coffee. On the days I don't drink the A&W, I'm sticking together through my tea, my coffee, water, everything.

I'm so excited though that the Cymbalta at 60mg is helping more, my doctor called the 30 mg I was taking the "grandma dose", ha ha. My doctor intends to lift my Lyrica from 2 times a day to 3. That's the one that gives me most of the side effects, so we'll see how that goes. Insurance is being nasty and insisting I get the mail order script or they won't pay for it anymore... some much for wellness, I can't afford the prescription, run out, and end up with a seizure from abruptly stopping the stuff??? I hate insurance companies. Thanks everyone for all your input.

Thanks bhedge! I think I'd actually call 30 mgs the "baby dose". LOL

My husband also takes Lyrica. I'm the one who uses Cymbalta. And never the twain shall meet! Ha Ha Ha

I haven't drank diet pop for years. It leaves an aftertaste in my mouth; I don't like the taste of the aspartame. I found out a long time ago that there's a chemical reaction in the aspartame that is either formaldehyde or formic acid (can't remember~~this is also one of MY issues right now) & diet pop actually makes you GAIN WEIGHT. Dr. Oz recently mentioned this on his TV show.

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bhedge, if you go to MouthKote's website, you can request a sample. I use the 2 oz. travel size which easily fits into a purse or pocket. It costs about $8 at WalGreens & approx. $10 in parts of Canada. The spray lasts up to approx. 2 hours after usage. If you don't like this particular brand, there are other products on the market that help to control dry mouth. I'm not necessarily recommending this particular product, however, this is the kind I use & it does work well, it's taste is palatable & it's an inexpensive OTC remedy. The website is www.parnellpharm.com for Parnell Pharmaceuticals In Canada, please search for www.parnellpharm.ca
For questions call: 1 (800) 457-4275 USA
1 (866) 260-6291 Canada

bhedge, I don't believe this product would contain many calories, if at all, but it's always good to verify facts.

Hopefully, my hubby won't see the part of your post about your mouth being so dry that it's difficult for you to talk. I'm sure he'd then be hiding my MouthKote! LOL

Have a good week! All the best! from Wendy :)

lol... I'll look for the Mouthkote at my Walgreens or CVS. I don't want to rely on Diet A&W for relief from dry mouth. I don't like consuming diet sodas, but my hubby had an addiction to Cokes that made him quite mad. Once I convinced him to get off the Cokes, he was looking for a replacement. We got him on iced tea with Splenda, but having to make tea all the time was so time consuming and hard to do at the office, so I came across Diet Sunkist because he wasn't used to the taste (he couldn't stand the taste of Diet Coke because it tasted so different than Coke). He really couldn't taste the aspartamine in the Diet Sunkist, so I had him taste Diet A&W, and that gave him a little variety. That's how it ended up in the house. Unfortunately it's so hard to drink the water here, it tastes absolutely nasty. We are thinking of getting a water cooler because I hate the thought of wasting all those bottles by buying bottled water.

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Anyone have remedies for those days when the pain is really bad and stretching doesn't get rid of the pains? For me it's usually the 3rd day of working, but I've been stretching all night and my legs still ache horribly. The increase in dose of Cymbalta has helped curb it some, but I think I need to go up again.