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How Bad Is Drinking When You Are Taking Cymbalta?
Im not really supposed to drink taking cymbalta (antidepressant) but i have a bit of a problem with binge drinking. I feel anxious in social situatons and i was depressed after a break up so i drank heaps the other night.
How bad is this? Advice?
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>”I feel anxious in social situatons and i was depressed after a break up so i drank heaps the other night.”
This is what’s called “self-medicating”!
>”i have a bit of a problem with binge drinking. ”
This is a symptom of alcoholism! You can use whatever excuse you want!
My guess, you are not communicating with your physician and/or therapist! If your going to do this, why bother taking cymbalta? Your wasting yours and the doctors’ time!
So why ask how bad it is to mix an antidepressant with alcohol? You’re in denial and basically well on your way (if not already) to becoming a “drunk”! If you want me to make you feel better, forget it! Your screwing up, and it’s a matter of time before this will start to spill over to the rest of your life! You don’t believe me, go watch an episode of A&E’s “Intervention”, trust me, this the real thing!
Stop drinking alcohol immediately! There are effects on the liver when taking Cymbalta. In testing, some patients developed “elevations of transaminases and bilirubin, but also had elevation of alkaline phosphatase, suggesting an obstructive process; in these patients, there was evidence of heavy alcohol use and this may have contributed to the abnormalities seen….Because it is possible that duloxetine and alcohol may interact to cause liver injury, Cymbalta should ordinarily not be prescribed to patients with substantial alcohol use.” Physicians’ Desk Reference 2005.
You could be doing permanent damage to your liver, and the obstructive process may interfere with your absorption of food and medicine.
Binge drinking is the worst. It damages your liver anyway, and the Cymbalta causes enzyme changes that make the damage worse.
Please tell your doctor. Don’t wait for him to guess. There could be a lot of damage done by then. There are other medications he can put you on that are safer under these circumstances. Don’t wait ’til you feel all dragged out, depressed, weak, and have upper right quadrant pain and swelling to tell him. You cannot manage this yourself. I’m sure he would rather give you a strong tranquilizer right now than have you binge drinking.
You cannot live without your liver. It is as important as your heart.
It sounds like you also may have social anxiety. Talk with him about possible solutions for that, as well.
Please take this seriously, and talk to your doctor.
Its not bad in the fact that it will damage your body in heavy amounts (more than what the alcohol would do to anyone) but it is damaging to the effect of your AD.
It is limiting the neuron receptors in what processes your body will go through so basically replicating what the drug is supposed to do thus rendering it redundant so a waste of time really taking it!
well ssri’s are supposed to boost serotonin in the brain hence not making you depressed ( I think cymbalta is an ssnri actually but still) and drinking alcohol lowers serotonin so basically like the first answerer said, it’s counteracting the antidepressant
What? Drink after heaps?? Wow! Who drink after heaps anymore?!
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