My only advice with introducing a medication option such as Cymbalta would be to start with very small doses (titration).
Even doing that, I personally could not continue using it, but meds react differently for everyone.
Overall, a combination of meds, dissociation and distraction / meditation, physical and mental therapy is what I've settled on.. for now.
A weird anecdote.. when I had a cardiac arrest in March, I literally went through the 'turn everything off, then back on again' scenario.
After the reboot, the reestablishing of my nervous system and its functionality took several weeks. During that time, the years of pain I lived with were gone. All of it.
I definitely don't recommend this approach, but it did make me wonder if there was some kind of hidden pain off-switch. 🤔
Anyway, it eventually all came back and here we are using all the old tools.
Good luck.
Dwight :mstdnca:
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