Posted by Tennisplayer on September 14, 2007, at 18:14:54
In reply to Re: Cymbalta Withdrawal, posted by alexal34 on September 3, 2007, at 19:25:12
I had a terrible experience on Cymbalta, but didn't realize it was what was making me so sleepy all the time, totally apathetic and zombie like and depressed. When we finally realized it was what was making me so sleepy, and like life was generally not worth living, I tried to stop it and then began the horrible withdrawal symptoms. Nausea, LSD type nightmares, flu-like feeling,extreme rage and irritability, insomnia, akathisia, ravenous state of hunger, craving carbohydrates every 2 hours or so, weight gain, etc., short term memory problems. I took 60 mg for 11 months. I have been trying to get off it for 2-1/2 months, finally stopped it completely 14 days ago after tapering. Still having the symptoms. Only one I didn't seem to have is the brain zap thing. I am wondering what I can do to help ease through this phase and get to a happy medium somewhere. I have decided now I was not even depressed. The drug made me more depressed than I have ever been in my life. I also took it for interstitial cystitis, a chronic severe bladder pain illness for which there is no cure, because they claimed that it helped both depression and physical pain. It did not help with pain or depression. I have seen a program called "The Road Back", which offers their own supplements that you have to buy (vitamins etc. and herbs), but I do not want to get into supplements that are not even FDA regulated, having had problems after taking Ashwaganda in the past, and realizing that if the FDA can allow a toxic destructive drug like Cymbalta to be given to people, there is no telling what may come to us from sources that have no regulation. I wish that I could find some source that would tell which vitamins help or what foods help when you are trying to get past Cymbalta or other SSRI or SNRI withdrawal symptoms, without having to buy some products or try herbs and so called "natural" aids. There may not be any such site, and i don't blame the road back people for making some money while also helping people, but all of their "solutions" involve taking a dose of their supplements so many times a day, and so really don't help you unless you buy the whole line of things they offer. I am not sure if I can afford it financially and I do not trust natural remedies particularly any more than I do pharmaceuticals at this point. Sorry to be so negative. Does any one have any general advice. I would like something to calm my anger down and help with the insomnia without taking any of the usual prescription drugs, or just getting hooked on another toxic substance to mask the symptoms from the first one. I apologize for my lenthiness and impatience.
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