In addition, people were able to maintain these improvements when challenged with a dual task. LSVT BIG can be delivered by a physical or occupational therapist. Treatment is administered in 16 sessions over a single month (four individual 60 minute sessions per week). This protocol was developed specifically to address the unique movement impairments for people with Parkinson disease.
(at the moment I am taking both) Dr. Paul Grin Dr. Grin. Loss of appetite: Both medications have as a side effect- loss of appetite. However, with Cymbalta is an individual response, you can gain or loose weight. At the same time Cymbalta is a good antidepressant (snri) and chronic pain relief medication.
But the good news is that it is a drug that anyone can be prescribed, so she encouraged me to try it. I too was on Effexor for over a year and put on approx 100lbs before the dr took me off. I'm on Cymbalta right now and one of its side effects is weight loss, so I've taken off 65 of the 100 so far. I'm not sure of the withdrawal since I took an OD and came off it in one nite. But otherwise I can certainly relate.