Posted by bleauberry on December 17, 2013, at 5:05:31
In reply to cymbalta withdrawals, posted by joe f on December 13, 2013, at 22:47:33
Yes! Problems, big time.
Cymbalta is one of the nastiest ones to try to get off of. Why that is, I don't know.
I had pretty bad withdrawals, scary actually, from just one week on the stuff. And it had been making my depression so much worse. Nothing good to say about that drug, except that I do have a friend who takes it for fibro and she likes it for helping with pains.
The best way to withdraw is to empty the capsule, count out 10 beads which equals 1mg, and then make custom doses to slowly come off the drug in tiny steps. Swallow the beads whole in apple sauce, yogurt, pudding, anything that can be swallowed without chewing. This way you can go from 20mg to 19mg, and so on, instead of 20mg to 0. That way, the eventual withdrawals are tamer, milder, and more tolerable.
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