Sorry about the fibro. I have that too, and it is flaring now, I'm sure from mostly from stress as stress has never once helped fibro or any of my mental conditions. At it is yet another disease no one can see from the outside. I can't even take the fibro meds that helped me the most because of them either being or containing NSAIDs. So I'm left with gabapentin as the rheumatologist is not going to prescribe me Cymbalta, which actually did help me the first year I took it, not just with fibro, but with my mood too. Though, I started Cymbalta about 6 weeks postpartum, and that first year was so soon after my daughter was born (another very stressful time, if you have a baby with colic who gets a tooth before she turns 3 months old). But my hormones where all wacky; I don't think I even got a period again until 9 months later, and from my medical records, it looked like at about 6 months postpartum my old pdoc was thinking I was bipolar, probably bipolar II but then she had bipollar II? as her diagnosis until I had a horrific manic spell in her office & waiting room, and that pretty much changed her mind to bipolar I.

Coming off of Cymbalta was very, very painful. The fibro let me know it, head to to.