Posted by West on December 18, 2008, at 7:25:52
In reply to Re: question about tapering off cymbalta » nlcrj, posted by Phillipa on December 17, 2008, at 14:40:44
Hi
I just wanted to say that i've come off cymbalta without any problems about 3 months ago. I folded a piece of card into a 'v' shape so that it stands up and poured the contents of whichever capsule i was using (60mg or 30mg) into the 'rut'. Next i cut off a thin piece of card and cut the end at two right angles to push the beads up and down with. I divided the beads by eye and went down in increments of about 10mg per 5 days.
The day i was due to reach zero i took 20mg fluoxetine, and another the following day (luckily my mother is prescribed them), I think that should probably see you through. I did have some 5-htp as well for sleep which helps to raise serotonin levels.
Of course you could always just switch to fluoxetine for a week (it's total guesswork but i would take 20mg to equal about 30mg of cymbalta). It has a long half-life meaning the tapering process continues weeks after you take the capsule.
Hope that helps.
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