RAINBOWZZ,

Hi, and glad for your great report. I have fibromyalgia and just a lot of chronic pain from a lifetime of abuse and recovery from abuse and just the general kick my *** effects of abuse.

So, the point to my saying this is that the Nortryptyline and Cymbalta have done a significant amount of help for me in actual depression lift and in helping to keep my pain in a manageable place instead of Dante's seventh ring of hell. I do not normally go around advertising for the darned old drug companies - but there is a reason, I have not found ANY anti-depressants that ever worked for me and I tried at least a dozen through the years and its been horrible for a long time. SO again, it is not a total cure for the pain - darnit - but it does take a huge edge off of it and lets me use some lesser measures to give me some release from pain.

i wear fentanyl pain patches and need to get my bone on bone knees replaced becaue this arthritis plus fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue and a few psych dx and dosages...my body wore out a long time ago due to the hideous pain in childhood it was so destructive to me.

so i hope to get one or more new knees this year if i get out of my chair and get my muscles built up. i want to be a normal - ok quasi-normal person.

if any of that helps you go for it. i want for you what i want for me, less pain where life is not like a preview of hell, especially since i love God and hope to enjoy life in heaven after i shuffle off this mortal coil (bad shakespeare quote). i wish you what i wish for me, health and to be "happy, joyous and free" and SANE!!!!!!!!! hugs,

leslie and the pixes

ps one of my favorite slogans "HALT" DO NOT GET TOO HUNGRY, TOO ANGRY, TOO LONELY OR TOO TIRED. if we learn to HALT in time we avoid many a relapse and other problems. ciao