Posted by stargazer2 on November 30, 2007, at 7:55:51 [reposted on November 30, 2007, at 22:45:48 | original URL]
In reply to cymbalta withdrawl, posted by connie72124 on November 30, 2007, at 5:57:53
At 30 mg of Cymbalta I was a walking sleepy zombie, at 60 mg I was a bedridden, sleepy zombie. No other med has quite done that to me. How did you ever go to 90? I told my pdoc that it was not helping one bit by making me a bedridden corpse. I stopped it probably after the second week. I don't believe other's theories that you have to feel so much worse before you feel better. Pdocs will always push a dose to extremes before giving up unless you insist it is too much to tolerate.
It has never happened for me that way. Feeling worse means getting worse, not better, for me.
I hope by doing this I will avoid long term damage that has not been studied yet and also to prevent severe withdrawls from very high levels of meds that never worked very well for me.
My intuitive thinking tells me that high doses will in the long term cause damage. We just have not heard of this yet. And remember pharmaceuticals will hide every bad effect from us even at the cost of your health or getting sued. They only see $$$$, not the stuff we are going through. Why is there no follow up on the side effects we all are having. Who cares about studying this after a drug is released??? Nobody since we wouldn't take most of the meds prescribed for us based on those statistics...
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