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Re: cymbalta -3 month withdrawal

Posted by james_ukglasgow on September 17, 2009, at 14:31:43

In reply to Re: cymbalta -3 month withdrawal, posted by Justherself54 on September 16, 2009, at 21:34:35

I agree with going slowly on stopping it. I made the mistake of going from 60mg to zero over a week using a smaller number of granules from the capsule everyday. However, after 4 days I was climbing the walls and my friends were really concerned about me, I was almost at the point of going to the local Psych Hospital and asking to be admitted. I became an emotional wreck, and have since gone back to fluoxetine 60mg a day.

If you feel you are likely to need to keep taking anti-d's it might be better to do a direct swap. I have done this many times with different drugs, the closest analogy would be Efexor. I stopped it one day and started paroxetine the following day and I got no withdrawl symptoms. But when I tried stopping Efexor slowly again it was hellish.

Sometimes taking a large dose of fluoxetine say 60mg and then reduing this over 3-4 days until you stop can help more than tapering the duloxetine, so I have heard. It is similar to the Valium and Ativan situation with half-lives.

I have been on anti-d's since 1992 so I can't see me ever being without them now. I remember when I got my first script for Seroxat/Paxil and was told it was not addictive, little did they and I know.


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