A pain management doctor put me on 30mg Teva Duloxetine for post-Shingles pain. The idea is to train the nerves not to create this highway so I won't have this low-level, intermittent pain for the rest of my life. I think she's thinking it would only be a month.
My side effects were mild nausea and extreme sleepiness. At one week (today), the nausea is mostly gone. My appetite is suppressed (the one good side effect), but I'm sleeping 10 hours a night and then taking a nap an hour after I get up. I feel pretty spacey until it's a few hours until my next dose.
After reading some of your posts here, I'm not sure it's worth it to be on this drug. My doctor said for 30mg, they don't wean you off, just stop She's calling in a 20mg perscription for me.
What do you suggest? Try the 20mg? Or if I decide I want to stop, is my time so brief that I can do that? This is feeling like it's a case of the remedy being much worse than the problem.