A New Beginning
The new year crept up on me too fast! It's been over a month since my last post, and I don't know how productive necessarily this time has been, but there has been a lot going on. 2016 is bringing so many new things for us though, starting with a wedding, and who knows - maybe new house? new career? new family? HEALTH When my medical insurance ran out when I lost my job a few months ago, I could no longer afford the Cymbalta I had been taking for my Fibromyalgia. The walk-in, sliding-fee clinic I went to just switched me to a different medication with no tapering off or easing in. BIG MISTAKE! Now I'm reading a lot of different blogs and articles about the alarming rate of suicides and horrible withdrawal from Cymbalta. The manufacturer of the drug put out a physician's prescribing guide saying withdrawal symptoms occurred at 1% or greater than patients with placebo -- extremely vague. So now there are many patients trying to sue the manufacturer ...