Posted by Tennisplayer on October 8, 2007, at 16:18:27
In reply to Re: Cymbalta withdrawal - Publicity » tennisplayer, posted by moesje on October 8, 2007, at 9:28:57
Moesje, thank you for that information. That helps me to know what to expect in the coming months. I,too, still have times duringthe day when I feel like I am exhausted--they come on suddenly, and last about 3 hours. Sometimes I take a nap if I can but either way I don't feel really well until several hours after the onset of that exhausted feeling. If I do nap I often have upsetting depressing dreams and do not wake feeling refreshed even if I sleep as much as l-1/2 hours. I usually have to take a caffeine pill and drink coffee or diet coke to get going again. But thankfully by 6 hours later I usually start to feel pretty good and peppy again. I guess I need to heed what you said about eating correctly and getting plenty of sleep. That would probably cut some of those exhausted feeling episodes out. I feel so much more alive now and happier than I have been in years. I want the lady who had the suicide attempt to realize that she can feel that way again. When you are in the worst of the aftermath of Cymbalta it is hard to believe you can ever be happy or feel good again. But you can. I realize that all of us have other factors besides just the Cymbalta exposure that have to be dealt with to get back to happy meaninful life again, but just knowing that Cymbalta was a big part of my problem and learning that you can recover from it has helped me so much. It is still an ongoing work to keep mentally healthy, and I think we should all continue with psychological counselors or good friends who are able to help or whatever to get to the bottom of what started us feeling like we needed to take an antidepressant in the first place. And I don't think just going on another antidepressant is a good answer. You have to be unmedicated enough to have your mind alert and able to sift through what has happened in your life and relationships to unravel that problem and get it fixed. You will never be able to do it under the influence of "antidepressants" that actually are mind-numbing, personality-obliterating drugs that keep you from using your intelligence and working with someone who can help you to get to the real reasons that you are depressed, and those are not usually some "chemical imbalance in the brain", but the emotional hurts and destructive behaviors from other people and yourself that have made you depressed. I know that all emotions we feel have a base in neurochemical reactions that happen in our brain, but we have been misled into thinking that those are the cause of the depression. The reason those kinds of chemical reactions start repeating themselves and forming a pattern that possibly does become a chemical imbalance or something (and that is just a theory with no proof yet, see "Your Drug May Be Your Problem" by Dr. Peter Breggin) is that life events and caustic and toxic relationships and people have caused you to start developing those negative chemical patterns in your brain to begin with. Until you make peace with those things, and learn how to deal with them, the best you will do is be turning yourself into a walking "vegetable" as far as being able to feel any emotions at all--you won't feel that much pain, but you won't feel that much joy either. And the problem will still be there, plus the tons of harmful problems that antidepressants leave you with when you take them. There may be some mild antidepressants at low dose taken only for a week or two that might have some useful ness in a crisis situation, but after that I think they should be stopped. Just on the basis of having seen what they do to other people and myself--they don't help, they make things terribly worse for people. Sorry to rant on and on (I am still experiencing the babbling manic type withdrawal symptoms to some degree but there is some truth in what I am saying). Please, people if you have any doubts, read that book Your Drug May be Your Problem, and visit the site antidepressantfacts.com. Those are so helpful. People attempting suicide or completing it are two of the worst results of Cymbalta, but there are dozens of other horrible results of using Cymbalta that are causing damage to people and that people are starting to demand legal action about. I also am going to check for more of those issues--which involve not only people who killed themselves or someone else, but people who have suffered terrible physical residuals like dangerously high blood pressure (and not just from weight gain, but from the effect that Specific Norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (which is one half of what Cymbalta has in it. the other half being the Specific Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) have on the body and especially the autonomic nervous system and regulators of things like cholesterol, triglycerides, glaucoma, respiratory malfunction, etc. I found out last week that my cholesterol was 398 and my blood pressure was 168/90. It used to run 120/70 almost all the time. I lost 20 pounds on Cymbalta and started gaining like crazy once I went off it, which is the reverse of what most people do, but it totally messes up your metabolic regulators of blood pressure, cholesterol etc. regardless of or in addition to the problems that way that it causes you because of weight gain. Even my optometrist knew that Cymbalta causes a rise in blood pressure. He also knew it can cause glaucoma or worsen glaucoma. Public awareness is rapidly increasing about the devastating effects of these psychiatric and psychoactive drugs, especially the ones that deal with norepinephrine as well as serotonin. Someone posted on here about 6 weeks ago and mentioned the book "Your Drug May be Your Problem" and that is how I happened to find about it and read it. Thanks to that person and if anyone else has read it and wants to discuss it please let me know and I will send you my email address. Someone else wrote back and said they didn't have to read the book to know something was wrong with them. I knew something was wrong with me also long before I read that book. In fact that is why I read that book. Because I hoped it would give me further information about my problem with the drug and ways to help, and it did. That is why I think it would help many people who are dealing with Cymbalta side effects, with drawal effects and other SSRI and SNRI drugs in the same class. Most of the others also produce the same problems. thanks for your time. let me hear from you. thank you.
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