Posted by tennisplayer on April 30, 2008, at 20:36:32
In reply to Re: Cymbalta withdrawal, posted by alycat on April 30, 2008, at 19:47:52
> I feel like a true junkie now. It's day 8 or 9 going cold turkey, and I broke down and filled half a month scrip. There I am in a parking lot rationing out Cymbalta beads in an old water bottle cap before meeting my husband and kids at soccer practice...what the hell? My husband sympathetically said I am looking "a little rough", so not only do I feel like an addict, I also look like one!! No more cold turkey for me. I am hoping to take 15mg for a week, then 8mg for a week, then 4...etc...could I go faster? Will I have any long term damage to my body? I am so afraid now of what I have done to myself. By the way, I was prescribed this by my Gen. Practitioner (not a Psych), so this is not his specialty, and I'd rather hear from those who have lived it. Please tell me this will all be over soon, and I can TRY to treat ME naturally, and not what Cymbalta has done.
Don't give up, alycat, but tapering is the best way to go. I tapered for 3 months. What dose are you at now? If you can do it, it would help to talk to a psychiatrist, to help you decide how slowly or quickly to taper off of it, I believe. I know that is epensive, and there may be some specific advice coming from some or the readers that will tell you how fast to go on the taper. It sounds like to me you are trying to do it too fast. I was on 60 mg, then went to 30 then went to 20 then 20 every other day, etc. Stopping cold turkey or trying to get off too fast will give you severe nausea and a lot of other things.
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