Posted by mizloopy on April 18, 2007, at 1:11:03
In reply to Re: Cymbalta withdrawal, posted by Kfroggy on April 17, 2007, at 9:15:11
Hi all
I'm finally off cymbalta and symptom free, I thought I would never get to write that sentence. I was on cymbalta for almost 3 years and had tried to get off it twice and it was too hellish to handle in the past. I did do this with a doctors help and I went on 10 mg of prozac , (I took it in liquid form because it is easier to change your dosage that way, it was disgusting to taste, but I learned to hold my nose and eat a spoonful of peanut butter afterwards which helped mask the taste)So my first week i was on the 10 mg of prozac taste and went down from 30mgs of cymbalta to 20 mgs for two weeks i stayed at that level (I expierenced some mania but I'm bi-polar and nothing dangerous happened)after two weeks I stayed on prozac the 10 mg still and pulled apart the cymbalta capsule and took half the powder balls inside it and decided that was about 10ish mgs of cymbalta I did that for 10 days, the cymbalta withdrawal was mild compared to the times i had tried without the aid of prozac(apparently they have used prozac for the discontinuation symptoms from effexor) I then stayed on the 10 mg of prozac for another 10 days without cymbalta, I have to say the first 4 days were hard and i had some withdrawal: upset stomach, neck pain, dizzyness, headaches. I actually got to four days twice and went back to 10ish mgs of cymbalta while staying on the prozac. my third try I just pushed forward and felt yucky.after that i took prozac for 6 days without cymbalta and then discontined the prozac. So now after about 6-7 weeks I'm no longer on cymbalta or prozac, you don't get witrhdrawal from prozac it has a half life of 4 weeks. I would definitely talk your psych doctor about this approach. (unfortunately while you're on the prozac with cymbalta the sweating and hot flashes seem worse but it's a temporary thing)so I wish all you hope getting off of cymbalta, I'm not sorry I was on it, it did help me with depression.
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