Posted by Tennisplayer on September 26, 2007, at 10:00:38
In reply to questions for women re:antidepressant withdrawal, posted by Smittygirl on September 19, 2007, at 19:55:10
Smitty girl. Sorry to be so lengthy. I forgot to ask you--when you were on Cymbalta and never reached the REM stage of sleep-- did you yawn all day the next day and feel you had to take 3 or 4 naps to get through the day? It was not depression type (withdraw to a dark room and get away from everybody). It was actual physical sleepiness and yawning. I thought I did dream while sleeping while I was on Cymbalta but maybe I didn't. Maybe that is why when I went off it my dreams seemed like Broadway production films. also might be the reason my doctor put me on Ambien, because he too said he thought i wasn't getting enough "restful sleep" at night and that was why I was so sleepy during the day. But neither the day time or night time sleep left me feeling rested or refreshed. I woke up feeling as tired or tired than I did when I went to sleep. And certainly not refreshed. I would have just kept sleeping if I didn't have to get up for something. My doctor never once suspected it was the Cymbalta causing me problems. He thought it might be low thyroid, or whatever. To be fair, the drug literature doesn't warn you of anything like the true side effects you have on Cymbalta, especially the coma-like state it will put you in. In spite of the uppers being normall useful to wake you up in this case I thinkt they may be causing you to stay fatigued (if you can find how to safely taper off them I would do it, and off of whatever meds you are on, like sleeping meds or any kind of psychoactive med) They sometimes produce a direct opposite reaction than they are supposed to, once your nervous system gets completely screwed up. For instance Adderall and Ritalin are used to calm down and sedate so called "hyperactive" children, and have the opposite effect on some adults to what they have on the majority of adults. Just like Cymbalta was supposed to be fore depression, but instead it made me more depressed than I have ever been in my life. One control(normal) patient with no depression who took it in the clinical trials committed suicide by hanging herself. She had never been depressed before in her life or suicidal until she took Cymbalta as a part of that clinical trial. It does not help with depression. It makes you dead as a person, and it only helps with pain in the sense that you are asleep and don't feel the pain. A mega dose of Morphine would probably do the same thing. Sorry to be so angry. Are you sure that you have never had an orgasm? And are you married or sexually active or anything (as far as going thru the motions of copulation or whatever). I apologize for asking these personal questions and feel free not to answer them. I wish you would email me privately at lmagness@hotmail.com if you want to. thanks,
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