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Posted by connie72124 on November 30, 2007, at 22:45:48
I've been taking meds for 22 years. Most meds do have withdrawl symptoms. Some are scarry like brain zaps. I'm at 90mg Cymbalta and really snowed in. I have been in bed for a month--So I'm backing off and going back to 60 --I called my doctor and left a message but he didn't call me back--which is like him. But I know whats coming.
Usually three weeks of being uncomfortable in some way. I'll keep you posted.
Posted by stargazer2 on November 30, 2007, at 22:45:48
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...
Stargazer
Posted by Phillipa on November 30, 2007, at 22:45:48
In reply to Re: cymbalta withdrawl/Connie, posted by stargazer2 on November 30, 2007, at 7:55:51
Stargazaer how true and the wierdness is that they affect us different at different times in our life. Like one time was on 60mg of cymbalta felt nothing didn't even know I was on a med and just quit it cold turkey after about 3-4 months. Second time 30mg my head felt like it would explode. In writing this wonder if my BP was up as doesn't effexor or and cymbalta raise blood pressure? Phillipa
Posted by Phillipa on November 30, 2007, at 22:45:48
In reply to , posted by on December 31, 1969, at 18:00:00
Connie please do. Phillipa
Posted by rskontos on November 30, 2007, at 22:45:49
In reply to Re: cymbalta withdrawl » connie72124, posted by Phillipa on November 30, 2007, at 11:25:20
Connie, I was not ever on 90 but 60 and when I went down to 30 it was not a pretty picture so I feel your pain. I hope you get an easier time. I just withdrew from lexapro and what a picnic in comparison. I think I might just say no to AD's and look elsewhere. Although I must say that lexapro did help my anxiety and depression some. But the other side effects I can't handle. Sleeping all the time in a bed and that is all you want to do in it (hubby not happy bout that) with the only way to combat the sleepiness was to go so low on it I didn't think it would help to be on it.
So here is too being snowed in and AN EASY withdrawal. It sounds like this isn't your first time withdrawing from cymbalta?
Good luck...rk
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