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savella side effects

What did the savella side effects do to some people i hear they are horrible? cause i take cymbalta 60 mg
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5771641 tn?1373970944
I pray for U !!!!Hope U have a good Dr, recomendation form DR can decide if they going to approve the disabilitie.I,am on SSD for 7 years and got it very fast like a month.But its so little money, hardly getting by.Good luck.
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5275672 tn?1365864391
It is so hard to explain to family and friends.  You don't want to talk about symptoms but you are asked why it us hard to do this or that and you wind up talking about the pain and that was the last thing yoju wanted to discuss.  I always feel like a hypochondriac. This disease or syndrome makes me want to avoid people and explanations.
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I am 39. I have moderate rheumatoid arthritis and FIbro since my teens, but I wasnt diagnosed until 29. My RA is a cakewalk compared to FIbro. I have no energy at all. My husband thinks I'm lazy. I am in constant pain if I'm awake. I can't sleep laying down. I have small children and I can't even sit on the floor and play with my daughter. This is killing me, literally. I work full time because I am the main breadwinner in my home. It takes all I have to go to work. It's not that I don't want to, it's that I'm getting to the point where I can't anymore. I have spent lots of time and money on doctors and medications.
I took ultram for two years then stopped.The withdrawals were awful from the ultram. For a year I still had withdrawals. Then my doc said to try savella. It worked very well for me. For months I was pain free. Then we stopped it due to my pregnancy. After the baby came, I restarted it.
Oh boy, I got all the side effects. All at once I was nauseated, vomiting, diarrhea, but by far the worst was the profuse sweating and chills.
And then I wanted to do harm to myself for no reason. I literally wanted to die. It was making me suicidal. I stopped taking it period. No tapering off. Please do not take this medication!!!! I wonder how many people have killed themselves while on this drug. This is horrible!  
Imagine already being depressed due to a disease and then taking this crap on top of it. It should be off the market, really.
I will just suffer through my pain, like I have for ten years.
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I love Savella I take for fibro as well as anxiety I really love it. My fibro had gotten so bad through my shoulders arms ribs and knees I was like
Bed bound taking a shower was a chore. I took cymbalta first and I loved it I was on a pink cloud until I realized the cymbalta was putting me I a long manic phase. So after they said that cymbalta was bad for me I was on lyrics and I liked lyrics for my siattica but not fibro all the time I was taking pain meds with
No relief and then Savella was recommended and I love it I don't cry trying to fall asleep or
Get woken up from the pain I think it works great
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I am currently taking Savella 50mg twice daily for severe Fibromyalgia. This is my third attempt out of desperation, as I'm sure you all understand what I mean. I started this time taking a month to get up to present dose. I've now been taking Savella for a about six weeks. I am doing fairly well but have a couple of side effects that I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing. For one I am having chills, which is so not normal for me, and second , it is affecting my sinuses. I especially notice sinus discomfort when I try to increase my dosage. Also, my eyes get so tired and bloodshot and I feel like I could sleep forever( which I really can't sleep at all)! I notice when I do go to bed at night , I am so cold and restless even though I'm exhausted. I am going to try and figure out how to get second dose taken earlier in the evening.
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4058222 tn?1354586755
Ugh Savella was a nightmare. It made me nutty. Sick everyday to my stomach, I stopped eating because I couldn't take the vomiting. It made me grind my teeth constantly, I felt nervous, and went 3 days at a time without sleeping. I had to stop taking it after 2 months.... during which I had ZERO relief from the Fibro.
After that experience, I do not take anything. I can't deal with the side effects and would rather deal with the pain than feeling sick constantly.
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