Posted by D minor on May 18, 2005, at 12:10:08
In reply to Re: What are withdrawal symptoms like?, posted by SLS on May 18, 2005, at 8:47:31
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> What you are experiencing is almost certainly the depression itself. Often, irritability is a sign of improvement when one's depression is just beginning to lift. You are caught in-between depression and remission. If you were to discontinue the drug entirely, the depression would probably take on its more familiar vegetative quality.
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> I know how important it is to avoid becoming manic when no treatment is immediately available to prevent it. Again, though, I think you are much better taking a reduced dosage every day than pulsing the drug and risking non-response or an acute manic reaction.Hi Scott,
Thats interesting. I ended up taking the Cymbalta yesterday because I just couldn't stand that feeling. I think you're right. Now I'm sure the ever-other-day thing isn't going to work. I'll hold it here at 30mg unless the hypomania gets worse. I see my new pdoc in exactly one week. I'll ask him then if he could prescribe a lower dose if necessary.
Thanks for writing to me.
dm
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