Posted by bleauberry on January 14, 2013, at 5:21:56
In reply to Cymbalta withdrawal HELL, posted by PhoenixGirl on January 13, 2013, at 19:13:36
Cymbalta in my experience is one of the worst to withdraw from. The only way to make it a smoother transition is to open the capsules so as to make custom size doses....10 beads is about 1mg. Sprinkle them on soft food and swallow without chewing. You can go from, say as an example, 20mg for a few days, to 18mg for a few days, to 16mg for a few days, and so on, down to zero. If your final pill was 20mg, and then you went straight to zero, that is huge. Way too big of a step. Or you can just weather the hell and keep going cold turkey. Some people do it that way, but I see no sense in that when it is so easy to make custom doses and wean slower in tiny steps down. Withdrawal is unavoidable, but it can be made to be very mild.
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