Posted by Punkybear on July 1, 2007, at 22:31:50
In reply to Re: Cymbalta withdrawal » ConcernedWife, posted by moesje on June 14, 2007, at 0:41:50
My name is Mike and I am 49 years old.
Thank you for this thread. I thought I was going crazy from my with drawl. I am having the same things happen so many have talked about.
I have been on cymbalta for more than 2 years. After being on it for 6 months for my original problem, I was in a severe accident and was almost killed. I have since been raised up to 120mg a day of cymbalta. I was also on 3000 mg of neurontin.
I had severe weight gain along with many other problems from all the medication. Basically there is nothing they can do for some of my injuries except pain management. Two months ago, I told my doctor I did not want to be on these drugs anymore. I would rather deal with the pain than all the side effects. My neurologist agreed to let me taper it down to 60mg, and my pain doctors wanted me to totally stop the neurontin and get on lyrica. I have successfully switched to only 120mg a day of lyrica and am now off the neurontin.
After getting my cymbalta down to 60mg a day following the doctors orders, I stayed at that level for 2 weeks. Then on my own I decided to get off cymbalta completely. I followed the same advice I used to get down to 60mg. It has now been 5 days that I have been totally off the cymbalta.
I am experiencing severe mood swings, happy one minute and crying the next. I get those terrible brain shivers and dizziness. I itch everywhere. The worst for me are the nightly weird dreams and nightmares I have had for the last 2 months of lowering my dosages.
On the plus side, I finally feel like my brain is coming out of a deep fog. I feel like my personality and ability to think clearly is coming back. I will never allow any doctor to get me on this high a prescription of these kinds of medications again. I plan on getting completely off all my drugs, with or without the doctors ok. My choice for healing myself is going to be working out and lifting weights.
Thank all of you who wrote in this message thread. It really helped to know I was not alone. My prayers are with all of you going through this with drawl. This is Hell! I hope I can see a light at the end of my tunnel in the next 2 weeks. I have made it this far and will make it the rest of the way without the drugs.
Thank you all, I hope my story helps someone else.
Mike
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