Posted by moesje on August 30, 2007, at 23:50:01
In reply to Re: Cymbalta Withdrawal -- Take ACTION, posted by Holy#@$% on August 30, 2007, at 20:14:18
I am not condemning anyone for being on these drugs. I've been on and off since my youngest daughter was born, and she'll be 15 in 2 weeks. You start one, it stops working, they give you a different one. NEVER have I been told of withdrawal effeccs, and Cymbalta and Lexapro were the worst I've ever had.
Keep in mind that although you are looking at 2-4 weeks, the symptoms get less with each day. Plan on a couple of months of recurring symptoms when you miss meals or don't get enough sleep - at least that's what I went through.
My doc told me that if I split the pills up (taking less and less every so often) that I shoudl have less problems . . . not so. It didn't matter how fast or how slow I went, I had withdrawal.
And I agree, now that I'm drug free, I plan on just dealing with life as it is, the good with the bad. Of course, I just got my blood results, and I'm high on cholesterol, overweight and down on my good cholesterol. I've got lots of work to do to get back in shape. Thankfully the drugs are out of my system and I can finally hold down a full time job!
Good luck, and be sure to keep in touch here. Even when you're off, others WILL benefit from your advise. Every person is different in how their body handles the withdrawal and maybe your way of dealing with it will be helpful to someone else.
> My mother committed suicide and I went through six months of complete hell before I started intense group therapy treatment and Cymbalta. I truly don't know if I would have made it through that time without the medication. But now I am ready to be med-free.
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> However, my name describes how I feel after two days of the "weaning" off of Cymbalta. I was on almost a year of 60mg daily, then two weeks at 30mg daily, then 0. This "weaning" was prescribed by the PA. I feel the brain zaps, vertigo, weepiness, irritability, disturbing nightmares, yadda yadda.
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> I feel great sense of hope after reading all of your posts. I am going to start taking vitamin supplements, exercising, eat right, and do something for my nerves, i.e. yoga. I should have been doing these things all along. I have never taken care of myself. I hope these things will help me through this %$#@ing withdrawal period and for the rest of my life....naturally. I know the things I should do. With depression, however, it is really really really hard to do them sometimes.
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> I wish that psychiatrists would encourage patients to take vitamin supplements, exercise, eat right etc. as part of their mental health program AS WELL AS A part of coming off these #$%^ing medications. I am calling my MD's office tomorrow and letting them know how careless I think it is not to warn/inform the pt VERBALLY during their five minute appt about the withdrawal symptoms. They need to give recommendations on how to deal with the HELL that it is.
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> I came to this site for answers as to how long I am going to have these symptoms. I have found the answer to be between two and four weeks. Holy#@$%. I will keep updates for people as to how I am doing and what is working for me. I hope you will do the same.
> Thanks
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