I just got back from the psychiatrist's office, explaining how I feel lately, and she raised my cymbalta to 90mg instead of the 60 that I was on. Now, we'll really never know- if the combo works as a good preventative- if it was the cymbalta that's working as the preventative, or the verapamil- or even a combo of what it was when I started the verapamil.
While I care about the scientific process and isolating for one thing at a time, I'm willing to toss that out here. I know that the cymbalta kicks in quicker than the verapamil on a timeline basis, all being equal and started at the same time. However, even with the head start of the verapamil, the cymbalta may still catch up in the preventative race and kick in before the 8-12 week window for the verapamil. It may be close, and then I may never know which made the difference.Which is okay, right- I mean, as long as it works, says one side of me.
However, the side with the intellectual and rational thought process does have a point.
I would like to know which made the difference...'cause if needed, one of them could be jacked up even more to make an even bigger splash in the frog pond of my head.
I guess we'll see what happens, eh? Of course, there could be zero difference from EITHER of the two meds, and that would make me very sad...
... But I choose not to think about that right now. Day by day is good enough for me.
Eileen
I had no idea she was going to raise it- She and I talked a couple of months ago about raising the dose of cymbalta, and she said that she hadn't seen anything out there that showed that 90 was better than 60mg.
Since then, I guess she has. We're also figuring that this will help with the depression that comes when the migraine beast bites several days in a row- so that when pac man is chomping my seritonin, there's a bigger board for it to get to before it wins and goes to the next level.
As for the other stuff- I just thought of it while eating lunch!