Hello everyone,
I just came back from chatting with the pulmonologist about my sleep disorder.
I mentioned to my Rheumy that I was having crazy dreams and talking in my sleep. I would wake up talking out loud.
Now i'm just kicking and twitching in my sleep so bad my husband has started to feel sorry for me,, he says he doesn't know how i get any sleep with all the leg movement that goes on during the night.
He goes back to sleep without a problems until i kick him then he notices i'm having a rough night
My pulmonologist gets the list of meds i take and says cymbalta could be causeing the restless leg syndrome(RLS). Now he wants to do a sleep study test on me to be sure i don't have sleep apnea as well.
Cymbalta helps with my depression and my fibro and it was just increased. But i have noticed that since starting cymbalta i had strange dreams and now the kicking so he must be right about that.
He says he can give me somehting for the RLS but ,,, thats another pill!!
Cymbalta is the only one that helps my fibro at this time,, its either that or the other drug (i forgot the name) which causes you to gain weight and my doc refuses to give it to me due to that fact.
So here i am suffering a side effect from a common drug that i have to take another drug to rid.
Has anyone else had this problem???
Thanks in advance for your response
I just came back from chatting with the pulmonologist about my sleep disorder.
I mentioned to my Rheumy that I was having crazy dreams and talking in my sleep. I would wake up talking out loud.
Now i'm just kicking and twitching in my sleep so bad my husband has started to feel sorry for me,, he says he doesn't know how i get any sleep with all the leg movement that goes on during the night.
He goes back to sleep without a problems until i kick him then he notices i'm having a rough night
My pulmonologist gets the list of meds i take and says cymbalta could be causeing the restless leg syndrome(RLS). Now he wants to do a sleep study test on me to be sure i don't have sleep apnea as well.
Cymbalta helps with my depression and my fibro and it was just increased. But i have noticed that since starting cymbalta i had strange dreams and now the kicking so he must be right about that.
He says he can give me somehting for the RLS but ,,, thats another pill!!
Cymbalta is the only one that helps my fibro at this time,, its either that or the other drug (i forgot the name) which causes you to gain weight and my doc refuses to give it to me due to that fact.
So here i am suffering a side effect from a common drug that i have to take another drug to rid.
Has anyone else had this problem???
Thanks in advance for your response