Looks like I was right

[ellid]

And so was harpnfiddle. Anti-depressants don't seem to be the miracle drug they were promoted as except in the most severe cases.

Somehow I'm not surprised that this study came out of a country that is not the United States.....

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[kellanine.livejournal.com]

I don't know...I have to say Cymbalta has sure done wonders for me, both for my depression and my fibromyalgia pain. Just because something was developed for a specific person doesn't mean it can't be very useful for certain people in off-label situations.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

That's excellent news - I've heard that fibromyalgia is horribly painful :(

Unfortunately, it's *very* hard to get Cymbalta approved by a lot of insurance companies; you would not believe how many hoops we have to go through to get it for our patients at the clinic, largely because the insurance companies don't like it being prescribed off-label. That includes private insurance as well as Medicare/Medicaid...

This country's insurance system is screwed up beyond belief. :(

[kellanine.livejournal.com]

You're definitely preaching to the choir on that one. I get really angry about the condition of our nation's health system after watching what my cousin has dealt with. But luckily I have not personally had any problems, either with getting Cymbalta covered or with any other aspect of my insurance. I was just trying to say, though, that it's done wonders for me. I have, quite literally, been depressed since birth. Cymbalta was prescribed to me for fibro, and I only noticed months later that suddenly I did not feel depressed anymore for the first time in my life. Pretty great side benefit. So, I am pretty skeptical about that study and about this general rather automatic feeling in our country that anti-depressants are necessarily over-prescribed.