I quit Cymbalta in March. I've weathered all the nasty "brain" withdrawal symptoms and they finally seem to be gone. However, my joints and tendons are so messed up. I pulled a tiny muscle or something in my foot just by walking on the beach. I couldn't walk for two days. I paddled a canoe and couldn't sleep for two nights because it felt like my shoulder bone was being frozen. When I went back to the treadmill after taking a month off (during the worst of the withdrawal) I walked two miles which caused a severe pain my knee that lasted for two weeks. I keep walking, ever so slowly each day and it's not getting better. I also feel like every cell in my body is five times it's normal size (water retention?). The fact I gained nearly 30 pounds in six months while on Cymbalta does not help. (Haven't gained any since I've been off of Cymbalta.) I was much heavier with each of my pregnancies and felt no such pain. Also to the point, before coming off of this drug, I worked at a garden center and moved sod, bagged soil and landscape trees daily with no pain. Any one having similar issues and if so have you found any solutions?
Water retention and tendon/joint pain from Cymbalta?
Sasa Milosevic, MD
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