What can you tell me @ Cymbalta..for pain too?

[skeetelmore65]

Hello to all, I feel like I need to take something for my depression.Had it ever since '97,after my son told me he had been sexually abused by his step-mother, and he was only 5,maybe close to 6.I was in my 8 mos. of pregnancy.I just couln't believe it, but when your child looks you in the eye and tells you things only an abused individual can.I had been seeing signs at pool parties and other functions. He seemed to want to touch the girls.I had to ask him and he didn't want to talk @ it but I couldn't take a chance that someone was abusing him,so I didn't let it go. I just asked him and told him that it'd be between only us.
     I had already had an abusive husband.I left him the night he raped me. Our son was only 2.That was tough because all I could do was think @ the wellfare of my son.I'll explain next time.
     My pain has a lot of pressure on me and it makes me so depressed and mainly my concern is that my husband,who was always there for me and understood because his mom is disabled w/just @ the same things that I have.I just need to know how to make it easier for him to cope w/symptoms and pain.He usually is so patient, but something has changed and I don't know what it is?He actually seems to have an attitude and wants me to iron his shrits.I can't do anything w/out paying for it. How do you know if he's cheating?

[LeftCoastChick]

I think it would be important for you to get a referral to a psychiatrist. A pill alone is not going to assist you. I have chronic pain, and I tried Cymbalta, and my physical pain was not alleviated at all. With all that you have gone through, a pill alone is not going to help, you need some talk therapy and a proper diagnosis.  You need to tell someone about the sexual abuse, the worst thing you can do is tell a kid not to talk about it, if he was already starting to be inappropriate, your going to have some serious issues when he gets older. Get a therapist for your child as well, regardless of telling the police, which I think you should do anyways, I'm sure your son was not the only one.

[skeetelmore65]

Hey again,
    I didn't mean that I told my son not to talk @ the sexual abuse.No,I asked him and I wouldn't let it go. I just couldn't believe when he finally told me.I finally got him to tell me one afternoon sitting on the couch. I asked him while we were just kidding around laughing and I said to him,"Can you please tell moma who it was that taught you to want to touch other little girls?"He paused...and  we have always been able to talk to one another and this boy was 6. I believed what he told me because I know and every mother knows when her child is lying or not.Just look into their eyes and ask them,sincerely.He told me that his stepmother was doing things to him.Touching him and making it has you can say erect.I was devestated, hurt that someone so sick could do this to a child.He also give me to much detail to be making it up.What do you do when you are faced w/this kind of agony.I was in my 8 mos. of pregnancy w/his brother.
     I contacted the DHS.In which, in my case was the worst possible thing I could have done.I didn't know this at the time. I felt that was the best thing to do. They sent a representative to my home and talked w/my son and our family @ what all had been said or happened. They came back with a founded true basis. The bad thing that happened next will floor you.They sent another representative to their house and did another evaluation and came back to be founded untrue. I found out later that a friend of hers,(stepmother),did her interview.To make a long story short. I got my son immediately into therapy. They filed for custody. I thought how in the world would they do this. Not after she abused my son.How could they possibly have a chance.He was a honor roll student,we were a good christian family( that never missed church),he was happy and healthy and above all he had been abused there.Yes, there was an ugly court battle. I felt that they didn't stand a chance w/all that they had stacked against them,was I ever wrong.If anyone is reading this and your child has been abused,contact the police first thing and let the child talk to them and tell the story.Don't be included in any way or they'll brand you vindictive.I don't mean having a say,I just mean don't say anything to the child,let the child do the talking cause that can come back to bite you to. Cause the child being young trusts you and all they have to do is say"moma said".That might not seem bad and it's just because they are used to it anyway,but it can be taken that you have cohershed or lead them(I don't know if I spelled that correct).Anyway,it is a terrible ordeal.I am a good mom and nothing hurts worst than you child being taken away and you were only trying to protect them.I have hurt for so long.Now, my son is 16 and will be 17 this month.His dad has worked so hard to keep us apart and he has finally succeeded.All this time he's been there, he wasn't allowed to have a picture of his family,especially w/me in it and he could never call me. He called me right after her was taken, he was crying,it was 10:30 p.m.,I could here loud sounds in the background like babies crying,shuffling, just not a place I'd want my son to be. He had to get off , but we talked for a while. He called me back at 11:00 stating he wanted to come home. That tore my heart right out of my chest. I could here a females voice angry then the phone went dead.She's even had the nerve to tell me on a phone conversation that I didn't love my son. How dare she?I was so angry, I hit my fist on the table right after she said it. I've worried @ the safety of my son every night, maybe I should be taking an antidepressant and see phs. Anyway,after they got full custody and not finding me unfit or unstable turned my son against his own mother. He doesn't beileve I'm suffering and get this, I have to pay child support,and I can't work and haven't been able to since Jan.'04.He keeps me in court and me suffering makes it even harder.I am in bed usually 3/4 of the day. Now, he has my son there in court because I am behind since I haven't been able to work and I might ad he makes over $!000,000 a yr. besides what the stepmohher makes. It just don't seem fair. I just can't believe that my own son is testifying against me.Yeah,that is why I left his dad and I stayed w/him for 8 yrs.
     Hey, I got an idea, if it doesn't get me into trouble that is. I wrote the whole story down from the beginning w/pics. and all. I was going to send it Oprah or Dr.Phil but I know how hard it is to get through.I just wished now I would have sent it,but there are a lot of things I would do different if I had another go round.

Thanks for letting me vent on this...been bottled up for a little while.
If you would like to know the rest of the story ...gbtm....K

[whimpy2]

I just got off it and found no difference in my physical pain but it worked on my depression without to many side effects.