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Originally Posted by jo_thorne
Yes, I'm taking 60 mg Cymbalta with 7.5 mg Remeron for sleep. I don't know if it's considered as "augmentation" since the Remeron was prescribed primarily to help my sleep. My depression has gotten much better since my sleep has improved, though.
If I were in your shoes and wanted to stay on an SNRI antidepressant, I might look into taking Pristiq. Those Cymbalta side effects you're describing sound very unpleasant. Did you have them the first time you started taking Cymbalta?
I went straight from Effexor ER to 60 mg Cymbalta, so I never went through any side effects when I started Cymbalta.
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Well, the side effects have been a little better today. Yesterday afternoon and all day today the panic has been dulled...Sleep is "slightly" better, but I've always have had problems sleeping. And I honestly don't know if I had the side effects the last time I went on Cymbalta, because I went straight from 40mg Celexa to Cymbalta 30mg....then up to 60mg. I always have severe side effects because I'm super med sensitive. I'm thinking to stay on Cymbalta 30mg until I see the psych nurse Tuesday morning and then discuss it then. I know they were talking about the augmentation thing too, or adding the Remeron for sleep, and they said the same thing, with better sleep comes better control on depression. Im sure they'll want to exhaust all avenues on Cymbalta before switching over but we'll see. I have starting over on meds. I just want a "magic" pill.