What is Duloxetine?
Duloxetine is used to treat depression and generalized anxiety disorder. It is a selective serotonin/norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SSNRIs) used to treat both emotional and physical symptoms of depression, it is prescribed for diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain and management of fibromyalgia.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Depression | 234 |
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45 |
| Pain | 146 |
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31 |
| Anxiety | 36 |
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12 | |
| Other | 36 |
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8 | ||
| Burning sensation | 27 |
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3 | ||||
| Stiffness/Spasticity | 17 |
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5 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Duloxetine. See all 14 dosages ►
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Side effects too severe
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33 | 34% |
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Did not seem to work
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32 | 33% |
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Expense
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14 | 14% |
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Other
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12 | 12% |
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Doctor's advice
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11 | 11% |
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Course of treatment ended
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4 | 4% |
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Not indicated
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2 | 2% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
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- Babystars
- Sex: F
- Flare-up: Moderate
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- Babystars
- 120 mg daily
- since Aug 20, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Pain
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips Take it as prescribed and it helps the pain.If you stop taking it for a couple of days you will definitly feel the difference!!So keep taking it. See full evaluation
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- kaykay19
- Sex: F
- Sensation: None
- Overall: None
- Cognition: unreported
- Vision: unreported
- Speech: unreported
- Swallowing: unreported
- Upper limb: unreported
- Walking: unreported
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- kaykay19
- 60 mg daily
- since Aug 27, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Depression
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Side Effects
Mild
- See full evaluation
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- Fairy Goth Mother
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: none
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- Fairy Goth Mother
- 120 mg daily
- since Sep 19, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Pain
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips At times difficult to urinate. Orgasms take longer but they do happen. Over time that decreases. See full evaluation
See all 89 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.