11 replies to this topic

[Houdi]

Erin:

If this change can keep the spam and bots from posting, I suppose it is a wait and see for me. I for one don't want information 'pushed' to my email. I can't really tell what the changes mean to those of us that are current members of this forum. Maybe it will open up new avenues for existing members or help new members. You have to do what you have to do to make money. If it doesn't fit into my life style, I just won't participate. Notice that ilinda85 has had a thumb in your face and posted inappropriate things under control spam posts etc. Good luck to you.

[millwright]

FREE GIVEAWAYS? IN CAHOOTS WITH THE PHARMS? How about a lifetime supply of Cymbalta for a giveaway? Just kidding, I would rather win a beating for two in East St. Louis. This sight plays a major role for people who need help, what ever you see fit is alright by me.

[vilmaVEllis]

I find myself daily deleting between 1 and 30 posts per day that are just spam. I'm not able to keep up with it anymore because over the last 6 months or so I've found myself religiously getting up in the morning and the first thing I do is clean the forum here.

What I propose is to convert this site into an active blog WITH an integrated forum as well. It would make it easier for me to maintain as well as give me the tools to prevent spam coming into the site in the first place.

Benefits and Features:
* getting people in the industry to write relevant and current articles about Cymbalta and its withdrawal problems.
* find people to come in routinely and give expert advice
* keep things SPAM FREE and fresh with new content
* build a more active community that includes more functions and features that make it easier to have conversations.
* email subscriptions and maybe some prizes and give-aways now that I'm starting to network with people in the Pharma industry.

SO what do you say?

please comment below and let me know your concerns and thoughts.

-Ken

Vilma V Ellis
I am new to this and found you by miracle thru my moms physical Therapist "marsha" a great women! I would like to help in any way I can. I am going thru the horrible discontinuation syndrome from CYMBALTA. There could be a way to filter all comunication using certain words to minimize the spam and have those unwanted emails sent to junk!

[Matthew4432k]

Ken:
The lack of a physician/Lilly validated and promulgated tapering schedule and commensurate dosage for Cymbalta is the personal catastrophe that all of us that read your site have had to cope with. Until Lilly on its own or forced by the FDA comes up with this (an adequate tapering program), we all need your site. So, do what you need to do to preserve it.
The recommendation I made in my commentary was to ask everyone to complain to Lilly and/or to the FDA using the formal mechanisms now in place, since with sufficient numbers that will force a taper schedule out of Lilly. If I could suggest one thing to you it would be to have your site be pro-active and not passive in this one area - lighting a candle instead of cursing the darkness so to speak, not that we are all doing that of course. But pressuring Lilly/the FDA to fix this problem is the only real way to get permanent relief - we cannot really help ourselves out of this.
The suggestion another individual made to ask for volunteers that could help you with cleaning up the spam problem might also be a good idea. I unfortunately cannot be a volunteer.
I think you have done a great service with this site and I commend you for your work.

Matthew4432K

[nursedeborah]

I am new here, and don't want anything to happen to this site. You do what you have to do!
If I can help in anyway, as I am home all day just let me know. I am willing to do anything
to keep this site alive, and get Cymbalta off the market.

Debbie

[NagNancy]

will have lots of benefits. I found you with a simple google search "cymbalta withdrawl". Your site was the FIRST result. It may take time to get your blog that high up in the blog searches. I'd bet that there are many blog entries here and there on the web dealing with cymbalta. Perhaps you should leave this site up as long as possible with a huge lead explaining the switch and a link. That way there won't be any searchers left in the cold.

I think that I'll stick around for a while no matter what. Thanks for a wonderful site.
-Nancy

[MaureenV]

Hi,


I'm also new here and have found the information and advice invaluable.


I agree that until Eli provide accurate tapering information too many people are going to have to suffer.


After seeing my GP yesterday (who won't be prescribing Cymbalta in a hurry for depression again) I heard another aspect of the drug: it is apparently brilliant at helping those with Diabetic Neuropathy, so for all of 'our' problems, it doesn't mean that it's a drug which should be off the market, just that it's one whose manufacturer refuses to acknowledge the feedback.

My GP went to a conference on depression recently; given my experience with Cymbalta withdrawal she asked the question about it and was told there's no evidence to support it!!! (These were doctors - specialists in the field - not drug company representatives.) She said no further discussion was encouraged and was furious.

kind regards, Maureen.

[snicklefritz]

Ken I too am new here and have found this site to be a lifesaver. Have you considered having a group of administrators that could help you maintain the integrity and maintenance of the site? I would be happy to help.
Good luck and thank you for such a wonderful resource.
Regards
Vanessa

[tintellaar]

I just got here, but sounds good to me!

[cmonk]

I love this site. I do not know what I would have done without it. I can't work right now anyway so if you need help let me know. I would love to help get this poison off the market.....

Candy

[drphilistine]

I'm new to this site, but I've been developing web sites and managing web collateral since 1996. My first site managed to attain the Holy Grail of being among the Top Ten web sites listed on most search engines for that particular niche. My current work involves CMS development (Content Management Systems). A Blog and a Forum are almost always built upon a CMS. Wordpress is the most popular for blogs and forums, but there are standalone Forum applications too. I don't know which this site is built upon, but I am confident that Caphca makes a plug-in or Module that will integrate fairly seamlessly.

Captcha is known to most people as the Graphic of twisted characters above many submission forms: a human has to interpret the graphic's characters and type them into a field to finish submitting their post, article, comment, what have you. Craig's List has been using it for a long time but it's getting very common. The robot spam programs cannot match the letters to the field and so are stopped from posting: that's why the letters (characters) are warped and/or twisted, often with a haze of speckles around them. If they were in Arial type a program could read them.

Captcha also allows for using a math question rather than a graphic. I like this better as it's faster and easier to read, it doesn't rely on your Captcha account being up to date, no graphics need to be fetched from a Capthcha server, and it's just as good. Robots may read the numbers, but programming them to understand the equation, the format it's laid out in, and do the math is beyond the capabilities of the spammers SW. But the graphic option is no harder to install.

It will eliminate most of the spam and let you get on with running the Forum. As far as the Blog part goes, that's up to you. Can't hurt. I use the Drupal CMS, but there are others out there. Wordpress is fine if you know you will never need the flexibility to create a community or social site, or goe much beyond a blog and forum.

[patsymac]

I guess do what you need to do but pleeeaaasseeee do not do away with this site. This is going to help me go through my withdrawl symptons. If nothing else just to put my feelings out there to people who understand what I am going through.
Thanks for this awsome site.
Patsy