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7 out of 10 from a total of 183 reviews for the treatment of Chronic Pain. 49% of reviewers reported a positive experience, while 36% reported a negative experience.
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5.7/10 average rating
183 ratings from 191 user reviews.
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Simbalta - customer reviews and experience
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Thinks the product is excellent
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All my adult life I lived with my father, my mother died when I was little.
After school, I was drafted into the army, and while I was serving, my father died. They didn't even let me go to the funeral. When I returned home, no one was waiting for me, our relatives are all distant. I was alone, without a job, without a bride, without a profession. Somehow he got a job as a loader, but he received good money. Basically, I got depressed. I realized this, for a long time I did not dare to go to a specialist. It's hard to admit that you're crazy. But I made up my mind. And never regretted it. Now I had someone to talk to. The doctor wrote me a prescription for Cymbalta. Almost all my money was spent on buying it. But he really helped me. I drank it for 4 months, then gradually canceled it. And I started living a normal life. He met a girl, applied to the university.
Thinks the product is good
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Simbalta was prescribed to my mother for diabetic neuropathy. This is a terrible complication of diabetes. Very often, such a complication leads to disability of patients and even their death.
And then the doctor warned that this medicine is not cheap, it can only alleviate the situation, but this is not a panacea. Well, we have nowhere to go, we still took the prescription and bought the drug. But he did not immediately go to his mother. She was sick of the drug, insomnia and headaches began. The treatment was changed, and all unpleasant symptoms disappeared. Mom turned out to be intolerant to this medicine, although I heard that this drug is very effective.
Thinks the product is excellent
from 3 263 ₽
I have been depressed for a long time. After the death of my mother, everything in my life became dull, and nothing good happens. I started to be treated several times, but I do not have enough patience and it seems that everything is in vain. But then she made up her mind and went back to the doctor. She asked me to write out a more serious remedy to cure the problem once and for all. The doctor recommended Simbalta, wrote out a prescription and I started treatment.
The price of the drug is very high and this was also my incentive for a speedy recovery. In total, the drug took about 4 months. The mood has improved, I don’t think about the bad. It became easier to communicate with people, I changed my job to a more positive one. Definitely, the drug helped.
Thinks the product is good
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I learned about Simbalta from a friend who lives in the states. Americans are generally a nation that is very prone to depression and mental disorders. Well, I once called her on Skype and she admitted that she periodically sits on this drug. At that moment I was also not in the best shape, I quarreled with my husband, he left home. In general, it was a pipe. I also decided to try to buy myself an antidepressant. A surprise awaited me at the pharmacy. The drug Simbalt was available there, but it was not sold to me without a prescription. I went the next day to a private psychotherapist, told him my life and asked for a prescription.
The doctor prescribed it without problems, but I started feeling nausea and dizziness from this drug. Just wasted money. As a result, all my depression went away by itself.
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My mother has an anxiety-depressive disorder. She had to quit her job, the authorities were simply tired of enduring her oddities. I heard from a friend that there is such a drug Simbalta, which copes well with such conditions. But its price is high. We decided to try to treat mom again. I went to her doctor for a prescription for this medicine. They gave me no problem. First I bought one pack. You never know. The doctor recommended to take 1 capsule 2 times a day. The package was enough for a week, my mother seemed to have become calmer, there were no side effects. Then I bought 3 more packs. Everything was good too. As a result, she drank the medicine for 3 months. It took a lot of money, but my mother's depression passed, and she went back to work.
Duloxetine for the treatment of painful neuropathy, chronic pain or fibromyalgia
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Does duloxetine work to treat pain generated by nerves that are damaged by disease or pain caused by fibromyalgia?
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Duloxetine is a medicine used to treat depression and urinary incontinence (urinary leakage), and may also be useful for certain types of pain. Pain can occur spontaneously when there is damage to the nerves that carry pain information to the brain (neuropathic pain). When nerve damage occurs outside of the spinal cord, it is called peripheral neuropathy. Another type of pain, nociceptive pain, occurs when nerves sense damage to another tissue (such as a prick in the skin). Some types of pain of unknown origin occur without visible nerve or tissue damage. This type of pain occurs, for example, with fibromyalgia. The purpose of this review was to evaluate the benefits and harms of duloxetine for the treatment of neuropathic pain and chronic pain of all types.
Study profile
We reviewed all published scientific literature and found 18 trials with a total of 6407 participants that were of sufficient quality to include in this review. Eight clinical trials examined the effect of duloxetine in painful diabetic neuropathy and six in pain associated with fibromyalgia. Three trials looked at painful physical symptoms associated with depression, and one small study looked at duloxetine for stroke pain or spinal cord disease (central pain).
Main results and quality of evidence
The usual dose of duloxetine is 60 mg. There was moderate-quality evidence that duloxetine at this dose reduced pain in painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy and fibromyalgia. In diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain, 50% or slightly more had an improvement on duloxetine 60 mg per day more than one and a half times more often than in the placebo group. In other words, five people with diabetic peripheral neuropathy must receive duloxetine in order for one of them to achieve an effect of 50% or more.
The effect on fibromyalgia was similar, but the number of patients needed to be treated for improvement of 50% or more was eight. Based on only one study, it is not possible to determine whether the 20 mg dose is effective, and the 120 mg dose was no more effective than 60 mg.
We calculated that there were sufficient trials for diabetic neuropathy to draw these conclusions and no further trials were required. For fibromyalgia and the painful symptoms associated with depression, more trials are needed to make strong claims about the effectiveness of duloxetine.
Most people who take duloxetine will have at least one side effect. They are mostly minor and the most common are feeling unwell, insomnia or drowsiness, headache, dry mouth, constipation or dizziness. About one in six people will stop taking duloxetine due to side effects. Serious problems associated with duloxetine are very rare.
Although duloxetine is useful in the treatment of neuropathic pain and fibromyalgia, there is little evidence from clinical trials comparing duloxetine with other antidepressants as to which is better.
