Cymbalta and agresssive personality

My husband was on this drug for nerve pain. I told him not to take it, his doctor was prescribing if off label. Told him it would help his neuropathy (which he did not have). After about a week I noticed a drastic change in his personality. He was down right nasty, very confrontational, every one else was wrong and he was right. He was never like this before. After a year he finally got off it. But, his personality has not completely changed.

That is what I am doing now, except I found the beads too small to count so i open the capsule I wet my finger put it onto the open capsule turn it upside down and remove what sticks on my finger. The next week I removed 2 fingers of beads I am now up to five fingers I think I only have about a third of the beads left now. This is working well for me as before my dr told me to miss a day for a week then two days for a week, I got down to missing five days thought I was doing well until I had a seizure. This drug is very difficult to get off, make sure you do it slowly.

my dad is in prison because of this med if you know anyone who will help him please contact me

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My wife has had depression her whole life. Since taking Cymbalta, she is a different person. She divided our home, moved out and finds ways to simply hate me. I feel after years of patience with her condition that I have been discarded. This is not the same Audrey that I know or married.

My brother has been on this for about 7 weeks. He has become very aggressive and confrontational. He is also very fidgety now. Slowly taking him off. hope to find something that works

Hi Im on Cymbalta now and I have been abnormally confrontational. I hate everyone and have more driving anxiety. Im decreainig from 120 to 60. I hope that helps

After 15 years of marriage, my wife went from Mary Tyler Moore to a very unfunny Roseann. 3 years ago I took her on a $5,000 vacation to Montreal and Quebec. We stayed in the most beautiful places. I noticed she was constantly complaining. She told me she left her Cymbalta home. The vacation went downhill from there... she walked around with a constant mug on her face. It was so bad the last day we didnt even talk to each other.

When we got home she took her meds and gradually became fine, until the election started. Then she became a monster and stayed the same to this day. Until I saw these posts I was all ready to proceed with divorce proceedings. I'm hoping that once I show her these posts she'll agree to switch her meds.Wish me luck.

you can't see why she is angry except for this medication, and what about your dads death - anger can be a result of that.

Seriously, are you trying to support Cymbalta? Trust me this medication is nasty, it changes people for the worse. I have been on it for a month and i quit cold turkey because of the horrible side effects. It's now a month after i quit and i am still not over the withdrawal. Extreme fatigue, anger, resentment, zero interest in anything or anyone, brain zaps, dizziness, overeating the list goes on.Rather be manically depressed than on this medication. This c**p should be banned. It did nothing for my depression, it only showed me that depression is not nearly as bad as being on these meds. I hope that enough people start acting out against this medication so that it can be removed from the market.

Thanks for sharing your experiences. I certainly understand and personally believe this drug is very dangerous.

Years ago, after taking Cymbalta, I had a complete personality change. I became agitated, angry, selfish, confrontational and the list goes on. Basically, everything I did and thought revolved around my wants, wishes no matter how awful I treated everyone around me. Within a year of taking Cymbalta, I had changed jobs twice, had an affair and divorced my husband (I dearly loved him - we had been together for over 20 years). I married again within 6 months and became involved in some awful, ugly things that I cannot discuss here and pray that I can forget and forgive myself for some day. I divorced #2 after less than 2 years. Please know that before Cymbalta, my life was totally different; I was married to the love of my life, had a lovely home, wonderful job, enjoyed traveling and time with family. We were involved in church, did not drink or do drugs, went to the gym 3 times a week, mountain biked on the weekends, etc. Funny thing is, I didn’t realize that Cymbalta had contributed to these life changes until last summer. After I remarried (#3) 13 years ago, for whatever reason, changed to a different antidepressant. My life became calmer and settled, more like the “old me”. Last summer, however, I decided to try Cymbalta again and after taking it for a month or two, began having feelings toward my husband and others that were identical to those I had experienced years ago. It was then I realized that it was the drug making me feel this way. Of course, I stopped taking it immediately.

I’m not claiming that the drug controlled me or made me act the way I did during those years. I could have made better choices, however, I do know that while taking Cymbalta, my mind was different (does that make sense?). My way of thinking and looking at things was in complete opposition to the way I had lived and acted my whole life before.

I have thought about taking this further, maybe to the drug company as I’ve wondered how many other people have been affected in this way. This is the reason I’m investigating change in personality with Cymbalta. I am very concerned, upset and downright mad to see that so many other folks are having similar experiences and negative life changes while on this drug. Not really sure what to do at this point. I’m very sorry to know that you and so many others have suffered due to this drug.

It's the Cymbalta

I have been on Cymbalta for a couple months and I GUARANTEE YOU this rage thing is no joke...I had anger problems before the Cymbalta for multiple reasons but this isnt in the same ballpark

Imagine being so homicidal and suicidal at the same time that you dont kill yourself because you prefer to live and fantasize about murdering

Oddly I never physically act on any of the urges I have (punch, push, kick, slap, stab, whatever)

I just fly into a rage so quickly and throw things or break things or yell REALLY REALLY loudly

My girlfriend is so irritated by me and my doctors wont prescribe anything to deal with it

You wouldnt believe how small the things are that i fight over...if i get interrupted while talking, if i dont sleep enough (btw i average 2-3 hours per night), the temperature is too hot by 2 degrees

If everything isnt my way I flip out and dont care in the slightest about anybody else

My serotonin is off the charts, my dopamine is as low as it could possibly be (anhedonia) my hormones are so out of wack and up and down and all that

I am functional around other people for 5 hours out of each day...the other hours im either too high, too annoying, too angry, too everything

I seriously wouldnt care if everyone in my family died except for my kid

What also makes it rough is i have to lie to everyone about why im so terrible including my doctors so nobody will tell me to stop taking it...

Even writing this gave me the idea to try to trick my doctor into giving me more.

Ive never been addicted to anything in my life but i would punch babies daily to get more Cymbalta

So yay for me i dont have pain anymore and my depression and anxiety are gone and i actually am considering working again for the first time in 13 years

It's a wonder drug in so many ways because it takes everything bad away from you

But it also takes everything about you that was good.

My son was on this med. Oh my god his personality was bad he was all was aggravated at everything and his wife did anything used to try to choke her the last time she called the cops now he is being charged strangulation in the fourth degree he did get a letter for from his Dr saying it was cymbalta that made him this way. My son cold turkey off this med. Only side effected was brain zapping

Not at all, no. I have been taking it since 2014 and it has actually had the opposite effect, in reducing aggression.

Hi I have been taking cymbalta for about 6 months now. I have always had a temper but could usually control it, but now I just fly off the handle at the silliest things! I have never felt anger like this in my life I actually scare myself at times. Cymbalta is the only medication that has changed since this began I'm so frustrated but scared to come off it too as the withdrawal is horrendous!