Pristiq vs Savella
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| Desvenlafaxine is used to treat depression. It may improve your mood, feelings of well-being, and energy level. Desvenlafaxine is known as a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI). It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances (serotonin and norepinephrine) in the brain. | Milnacipran is used to treat pain caused by a condition called fibromyalgia that affects the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and supporting tissues. | |||
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| Add Pristiq review This medication has worked extremely well for me. I was really concerned about taking medication at all as I had just turned 18 when I tried my first medication to help ease my horrendous anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts... can't remember what I was on the first time but I stopped taking it because I felt super cloudy, almost like I had smoked a huge joint. A year and a bit later I was st ... I have been in pristiq for about seven months and I was going great then two months ago I started to get numbness in my face, tongue, and arms. my tongue swells up and I get small panic attacks. don't sleep good at night. but feel like I could roll up on the floor and fall a sleep during the day . just don't feel like working have no motivation lately Had tried others before changing to this. It worked immediatedly for me. If I forget one dose. I have numbing in my body; mostly tounge and arm and fingers. And a overall feeling of just not feeling good. I'm taking this medicine now and it is the only medicine that I have ever taken that does not give me a sick unbalanced dizzy feeling that I would get with every other medicine I've tried. I stopped for about a month but decided I do need to keep taking it. I have fibromyalsia,lupus,osteop,ielostomy,was I have mono high levels of Epstein barr virus and I have had strep B in body at both child bi ... | Add Savella review My nerve pain is much less painful after starting Savella. Have been on the product for nearly a month but I could feel the difference within the first 5 days of starting the meds. Had been on another rx previously. I have been on Savella for about 3 months now. It worked great when I first started taking it. It relieved my pain, fibro fog, I had energy and motivated. Now that I am on month 3, I have started feeling my pain coming back slowly and more intensly. Also, for the the past week I have been so sick. I feel like I just to need to puke 24/7 and very weak/fatigue. My doctor is closed today, I have an a ... I have had Fibro for many years and have tried so many different things but so far after one week I find Savella to be a god send. The pain relief far out numbers the side effects so anything that helps the pain is valuable to me. My depression was due to the pain that I was at the point that death would be a good thing that is how bad I felt. I am slowly getting over some of the side effects t ... When I first took Savella it was as if my life had been given back to me. I still had pain, but it was not as acute. It cleared "fibro fog" and I had a feeling of missing pieces of myself finding their place(you had to be there). I have taken it since 8/2010 and now, 5/2013, realize that exercise helps to relieve pain more than Savella. Tho Savella helped me over the hump to feeling bett ... SEEMS TO ALEVIATE ALL PAIN BROUGHT ON BY FIBROMYALGIA | |||
