"i have been on cymbalta for 2 months and it has really help my back pain.  i have had chronic back pain for 3 years due to a fall.   i have had my back mri and i have no disks problems, so it is muscle pain.  cymbalta has really helped.   it does still bother me some days but not as much as before.
in the beginning i had a lot of nausea with cymbalta but that went away after about a week, i was determined to give it a chance.  with some of the side effects it is easy to give up, but it does get better.  now i have no problems, maybe a little less of an appetite, but that might not be such a bad thing."