Posted by SLS on May 23, 2005, at 10:31:57
In reply to Re: stopped Cymbalta-need advice, support » SLS, posted by jessers11581 on May 23, 2005, at 10:09:43
Hi.
My guess is that you should feel the effects of restarting Cymbalta within an hour.
I really don't think it matters whether or not you use the capsule or not. It just melts in the stomach anyway. You can certainly use fractions of the capsule as you have done. That's the way I did it in the beginning of my taper off of Effexor XR. Later in the tapering process, I simply "eye-balled" and estimated the number of pellets that I wanted to ingest and simply licked them from the spoon and washed them down with water. The enteric coating is probably what prevented them from tasting bitter. There is nothing wrong with exercising a little creativity to accomplish the goal.
I guarantee that you will be able to discontinue Cymbalta with very little trouble using this kind of taper method.
Feel better.
- Scott
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