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Are all of you Lilly hired bashers and brainwashed "lilly" reps finished?? Face reality. You all live in a fantasy world and just spout whatever the corporate line is. I see this everyday in real life conceerning Cymbalta and not in a make beleive detail type things you guys do at your meetings. This is the truth from the real world and not your training sessions.
Cymbalta is nothing but a problem and a me-too Effexor. As I remember, my Lilly rep did nothing but bash Effexor when it came out and now he says nothing but glorious things about Cymbalta. All of a sudden the panacea for all mental illness is an Effexor first cousin drug. Why don't you get your stories straight. So sorry I rained on your fantasyworld parade, but you have a product with problems, just like Zyprexa. Oh by the way Lilly also told you there was NO connection btw diabetes and Zyprexa and then go out and spend 1.2 Billion on trying to keep this quite. This will all be exposed in the upcoming congressional investigations for all to finally see what a bunch of liers Lilly has made you all out to be, so get ready to start backtracking with all of the doctors you lied to if they take the time to see you ever again.
I love to post on this forum facts that nobody can refute, since the majority of you have very limited science background. You get all of your information from marketing via the recent corporate verbatims. As for the comment on saving lives and suicide, why don't you look at your own clinical trials on Cymbalta and see how many people actually commited suicide on this drug for just the very reason I pointed out--withdrawal. It was more than just the one poor college student that was reported in the press nationwide. Then there is all the off label hype with Fibromyalgia useage of Cymbalta before it was even OK'ed by the FDA. Don't think Grassley and Waxman haven't already been made aware about that too.
The number one reason other than acute medical trama cited as the reason people seek help in ER's nationwide is this withdrawal syndrome with Effexor and Cymbalta. Look it up if you can figure out how to "google".
Go ahead and bash the fact that I am a pharmacist if you want, but this just exposes your glowing lack of drug knowledge and your own avoidance of clinical data and facts. It's much esier to get your "information" from the marketing people since they too have such a vast knowledge on the one drug they are involved with in their efforts to reap as much money as they can from the product no matter how inferior it may be.
One can rationalize all you like, but one day you will see what a pawn you are in a huge corporation and how you were lied to repeatedly, perhaps then you can grasp the meaning of my posts.
I am speaking out as an ex-Cymbalta user.
I have never been suicidal in my life until I took the supposed wonder drug for back pain. It didn't help the back pain much and after only 6 weeks I was so depressed that I wanted to end it all and almost did.
To add insult to injury it then took me 4 1/2 weeks to taper down to 10mg - I had to take my capsules apart to taper as the company that makes this stuff obviously don't care about the people who cannot take their drug as the smallest dose is 20 or 30mg depending on where you live.
Even with all that tapering down, it was too fast as I had all the symptoms listed in the SSRI Discontinuation Syndrome checklist, plus a few that are not mentioned. Of course in all fairness to the doctors who developed the checklist, Cymbalta had not made a name for itself yet when they made up the checklist.
The pharmacist who posted his obviously seriously considered information should not be treated the way he was by the people posting after him as he was dead on with his information.
My discontinuation from Cymbalta has been a trip to hell and back. I am 28 days off and still suffering. The cost of this drug cannot be calculated in Dollars alone, the physical side effects suffered by the almost 8,000 people on the support site I am a proud member of cost millions. This is not a wonder drug, I know that it helps many, but Lilly needs to step up to the plate here and help those of us who have tried it and found that it wasn't the right drug for us.
I am not some teenager or young adult who one expected may develop suicidal thoughts. I am a well educated 51 year old woman who has always had a positive outlook on life despite the hardships I have had to deal with.
I thank God everyday for having my pharmacist became concerned by the questions I asked about cymbalta the day I decided that I would take it all and end the pain.
One other note here for those who think they are so smart - my own pharmacists did not know that it was possible to get 20mg cymbalta until I mentioned it and for them it had to be done as a special order.
