Cymbalta withdrawal

Guest over a year ago

Hi, I am also new here. I have been on Cymbalte 60mg for 7 years, then went down to 30mg some 6 months ago, then started weening off, until I could take one every third day and cope with that. Last week Friday evening I took my last il, the weekend went fine, but now I live in hell. Almost a week now, can't turn back. How long will this take to finally get out of my system? Can't cope right now. Brain swishes are severe, sweating, terrible headache. Please give me good news!!
Alida, Cape Town

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Nik over a year ago

I am in the process of going off this medicine. It is awful. Within 24 hours of going from 60 mg to 30 mg my neck started hurting so bad it was awful. I am on the 8th day now and the pain in my neck is getting worse every day, starting to work its way down my arm and up into the back of my head. No amount of pain medicine is helping me. Any advice?

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Guest over a year ago

After 4 years of depression and several failed medication combinations, Cymbalta pulled me through. I added it to Lamotrigine, Abilify, Seroquel, and Topamax. I am on 120mg/day of Cymbalta for 1 year. It was very challenging to stick to the regimen due to the sweating and upset stomach that accompanied the morning doses but I am happy to have found the drug and to have had the opportunity to get better on it. However, withdawal cold turkey is like a cat-in-heat! I can't move without these blackout feelings in my head and I am very faint and dizzy. I am nauseous constantly with a weak and shaky stance. I am surviving on Ginger Ale and Natural Gravol. Oh and Ativan to calm these horrible mood swings that are so humiliating I cannot leave the house. I even cried ordering the pizza, which I find I am starving so I should have ordered 5. You feel tired and annoyed because you have energy and the mind to do things but not the stability and physical strength to carry it out.

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Guest over a year ago

Nooooooooooooooooo, don't take it, pleeeez if you are thinking of a pregnancy. God only knows what this will do to a baby in the womb. Look at what it does to your body on it and off it.

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Magenta22 over a year ago

Hi, Prochlorperazine is an antipsychotic but of the older generation. I was given it for severe nausea after going through the hell of withdrawal from Oxycontin as I'd become dependent on it & it wasn't working for 12hrs any more. I ended up getting severe Akathisia from the Prochlorperazine. ..that was about 3 months ago. I tried procyclidine (made me hallucinate ) then propranolol (made me suicidal) then Benadryl (Diphenhydramine) which WORKED! !! for a few weeks then stopped.. .so I stopped it altogether and so far good! I want to try reducing my Cymbalta now so will take a few beads out at a time and try to come off them too...but slowly, very slowly.

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Guest over a year ago

your not alone with the weight. i gained 40 lbs on cymbalta for 2 years,now that i recently stopped it i have gained another 10 lbs.I have been off the cymbalta for about 3 months now and the wight gain seems to be leveling out. now I need to somehow lose all the weight.

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Guest over a year ago

I was put on Cymbalta for fibromyalgia almost 2 years ago. Since being put on it, I've gone from 5 feet 7 in 135 lbs to 221 lbs with NO life style changes except for the cymbalta. I'm also sweating excessively without physical exertion, I become overheated very easily, and I have not been able to sleep an entire night. I'm currently on my third attempt to tapper off. I'm going to start taking beads out little by little.

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Guest over a year ago

I am dealing with severe neck pain and spasms due to cymbalta withdrawals. Did yours ever go away?

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Guest over a year ago

I've been off cymbalta about two weeks and I just started having symptoms! No flu like symptoms, just severe muscle cramps/spasms in legs and feet . Dr thinks it's from my neurotin but all meds have stayed the same- except for NO CYMBALTA!
I'm just trying to deal with symptoms! I got a lot of vitamins and using ice pack on leg and heating pad on arm! This has been the worst experience ever!
Sincerely, OVER IT!!!

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Guest over a year ago

I feel like cymbalta withdrawal is easier than Effexor withdrawal. I joke that when I want to lose weight I just stop whatever anti depressant I am on. I gained 25 lbs on the cym. Had enuf so I was on 40 mg. Cut back to 20. Now after several weeks I'm taking the beads inside capsule when I feel bad. The cymbalta helped me in a lot of ways. I got more social. I took up tennis. I didn't feel any aches and pains and I was really a beast at tennis. Now I'm achy again and I have a burst eye vessel! Honestly if it wasn't for the weight gain and swelling I would still take cymbalta. I'm not having any bad mental side effects and feel happy that I've already lost about 5 lbs. they need to figure out why it causes such weight gain.

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