I feel I could have fully recovered

[eric_gladiator]

When I started with this I had only chronic fatigue without any other symptom, towards normal life with some complication but nothing serious. When my doctor this time I encourage you to try duloxetine I quickly notice a worsening and symptoms I knew nothing about. Maybe if I had never taken any medication and rested without forcing myself as much as I would take some supplement nowadays it would surely be recovered totally or almost


I weigh this in my head every day, I always had the suspicion that the medicines worsened my condition

 

[Marigold7]

Of little use looking backwards? We will all have regrets like this and I certainly do. Look forward.

 

[belize44]

I often look back and feel regret that I didn't slow down and take it easy, because there might have been a chance I would recover. But we have absolutely no control over the past, only the present. All you can do is apply the knowledge you might have gained towards the now, and forgive yourself for agreeing to take the medication, because how could you know?

 

[adreno]

If you recently stopped the medication there is reason to believe you will improve in the coming months. If there are permanent issues, it seems more likely to me that the antidepressant was a trigger, rather than a cause. In other words, you would likely get sick anyway, sooner or later.

 

[eric_gladiator]

@ Marigold7
When it is something that changes you so much life you think it over and over, of course this can be applied to many other things too and as you say in the end does not pay

 

[eric_gladiator]

@belize44
The frustration of thinking is very frustrating

 

[eric_gladiator]

@adreno
If accurate, it turned out to be a trigger. But what if I had never taken it? Maybe those symptoms would not have appeared since many times it is necessary that something detonates that in my case was the medicine

 

[Basilico]

@eric_gladiator How long ago did you start duloxetine, for how long did you take it, and how long ago did you stop?

 

[eric_gladiator]

@Basilico

I took it only two days in April and I started all the symptoms

 

[eric_gladiator]

@ adreno

I had already had stress and nothing had happened to me, but this time I know it could not be because of stress, I was mentally well. Maybe the disease has a psychological origin but the trigger for me have always been the medicines

 

[Basilico]

@eric_gladiator , I agree with @adreno that if you got this strong reaction after only 2 days of being on the medication, there's a really good chance that at some point something else could have easily tripped you up.

And at this point, it's only been 2 months. It can take a long time for the body to stop reacting to a medicine after it's been discontinued, so I wouldn't despair just yet. I had a very strong negative reaction to a medicine I started in March - it took more than 2 months to stop getting the last of the effects, even though that medication supposedly had an extremely short half-life.

Rather than torturing yourself over something in the past, how about focusing on what the take-away is from this experience? It sounds like taking SSRIs are a bad idea for you, so you now know what not to take in the future. And if your reaction was indeed from this medication, then you also know that you have extremely strong reactions to meds, and if you try something else in the future, maybe start with the tiniest amount possible and slowly work your way up - maybe you can catch a weird reaction before it gets too bad.

 

[eric_gladiator]

@ Basilico

I am surprised to have so many symptoms with only having taken two days, all symptoms correspond to cfs more joint and muscle pain along with itching, burning .. If something detonated, because I do not know, maybe if they were there from the beginning but They needed to be removed. A long time passed, I do not notice anymore like before taking it if not much worse