I go my pharmacy Sunday, and all they were able to give me was a 3 day supply of it, they said they were short of it, and that more should be in the next day. I kept checking everyday to see if more was in, and each day, the answer was no. That 3 day supply ran out Tuesday, and tonight, I finally asked them what was going on, if it was a problem just with this pharmacy, or every pharmacy was struggling to get more in this area.
The answer from the pharmacy tech really made me mad, not at her, but at the company Eli Lilly, which produces it. Because their patent is about to expire on Cymbalta, and a generic will soon hit the market, they are cutting the supplies of it, because they don't want to be stuck with large stockpiles of it, that they can't sell (due to people switching to the cheaper generic).
I understand them not wanting to lose money that way, but why can't they keep up with supplies until the generic hits the market? There are people depending on this medication to keep functioning in life, and there are people far worse off than I am.
