Posted by partlycloudy on February 14, 2005, at 18:54:50
In reply to Re: Cymbalta misery, posted by Minnie-Haha on February 14, 2005, at 17:37:06
Thanks - I was halted a week ago from 60mg to zero. I had come in for a followup visit and told the p-doc that I kept hearing whooshing in my ears, and my BP was consistently high. This prompted her to check it (and her nurse, and her administrator in her office to check it, with their eyes increasingly widening as they wondered when my head was going to pop off my neck). When my pressure wouldn't come down from 145/100 she told me to stop taking the Cymbalta cold-turkey until the pressure was normalized. I have been treating my anxiety with Xanax during this past week, but the depression really walloped me these last 2 days. Saturday and Sunday I experienced serious wishes of permanent release.
Much to my relief, I am being put back on to the minimum 30mg dose of Cymbalta tonight. personally, I think that the high blood pressure needs to be treated as a seperate issue as it goes from 97/60 to 140/97 all day long - is that normal? I dunno.
I have a wrist cuff that I check myself with periodically, and I do have very good command over bringing my pressure down with meditation and deep breathing. This ability fled while I was on the 60mg dose of Cymbalta.
I actually felt a huge relief when the p-doc told me this afternoon to restart the med. Perhaps tomorrow won't be so bad.
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