I was on Cymbalta for... oh... a year or two back several years ago now. (Memory fails me...) It was the only antidepressant that was of any consequence to me. I was on the maximum recommended dosage. It didn't resolve my depression-related issues entirely. But it kept a floor under me, as I like to say, so that when I began to slide downhill I would only tumble so far before the Cymbalta would kick my sorry behind back up to a more manageable level. At least that's the way it seemed to work for me. I have also had long-standing low-back-related problems plus sciatica & it seemed to help with that too.

I started out on the name brand product & switched to the generic when it became available. I never noticed any difference between the two. There were few side effects. One thing I did notice, after I had been on it for a while, was that my arm / hand movements started to develop a bit of "jerkiness". For example, when I was on the computer & moving my mouse around, periodically, my arm & hand would jerk forward a bit involuntarily.

I eventually went off the Cymbalta when I had to change health insurance plans & the out-of-pocket cost skyrocketed! I went in to see my pdoc & he recommended a reduction schedule that would take me from the maximum recommended dosage down to zero over the course of 2 weeks. I had heard stories with regard to people having difficulty trying to get off of Cymbalta. So I was hesitant. But, since that was his recommendation, I went with it & encountered no significant problems. I'm no longer on psych med's... nor any other med's of any kind either. But if I were to consider going back on an antidepressant, I'd seriously consider Cymbalta.