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This is now week 6 off Cymbalta after going cold turkey off it. The first week was horrific with evil physical symptoms. Luckily I did my research and have managed to stop most of them through vitamins and suppliments etc.
Mood wise I was doing a lot better, I am socialising again and have mor eof my life back - and my sense of taste...didn't realise i'd even lost it!
My mood has now dipped though and I am very very worried. I have been off work for a week and a half now. Just sitting around all day crying, silly things are making me panic (couldn't decide what to cook for dinner laqst night so had a mini breakdown). I feel like such a failure. I am failing everyone around me, I am failing my lovely partner as he has to put up with me like this again and I am failing my work (i'm a high school teacher)as I am letting all of my students down by not being there. I feel miserable, lost, alone and freaked out by the world.
My dr says I wouldn't be feeling like this if I was still on Cymbalta, that I have brough the depression symptoms back by coming off the drug.
I need help but don't know where to turn. There is a 18 month waiting list for therapy here, luckily I am now near the top of that list but still have to wait until I can get help.
I need help but don't know where to turn or what to do or try.
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Week 6 Off Cymbalta and i'm falling apart all over again
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Posted 13 July 2010 - 12:25 PM
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Posted 14 July 2010 - 01:36 AM
ernie, on 13 July 2010 - 08:08 PM, said:
what vitamins are you taking?
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Also Read my Ernie's diary and you will see we are not to far apart on how we feel. Day 28 for me.
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Posted 14 July 2010 - 04:34 AM
Dear Snozcumber:
Please do not feel like such a failure!!!!! do NOT feel that you are failing your partner, your work. All you are doing by thinking this way is giving yourself additional stress, which you don´t need right now.
The only person you shouldn´t fail at this moment is YOURSELF.
Cold turkey is the worst way to quit cymbalta. Even in the package, it says not to do it.
My best advice (I´m not a doctor) would be that you go back to a certain dose of cymbalta, and start weaning from there slowly. You don´t have to go back to your initial dose, it can be a little lower.
Crying and panic are withdrawal symptoms I´ve experienced.
Your doctor might be right, you wouldn´t feel like this if you were on cymbalta. But if you quit later, you will go through this symptoms anyway, unless you wean slowly. I am not a doctor, but I feel that the depression your feeling is not the initial illness coming back, but just a withdrawal symptom. I´ve seen people on this site, getting off cymbalta and experiencing depression even though they took cymbalta for fibromyalgia not depression
regards
Cookie
Please do not feel like such a failure!!!!! do NOT feel that you are failing your partner, your work. All you are doing by thinking this way is giving yourself additional stress, which you don´t need right now.
The only person you shouldn´t fail at this moment is YOURSELF.
Cold turkey is the worst way to quit cymbalta. Even in the package, it says not to do it.
My best advice (I´m not a doctor) would be that you go back to a certain dose of cymbalta, and start weaning from there slowly. You don´t have to go back to your initial dose, it can be a little lower.
Crying and panic are withdrawal symptoms I´ve experienced.
Your doctor might be right, you wouldn´t feel like this if you were on cymbalta. But if you quit later, you will go through this symptoms anyway, unless you wean slowly. I am not a doctor, but I feel that the depression your feeling is not the initial illness coming back, but just a withdrawal symptom. I´ve seen people on this site, getting off cymbalta and experiencing depression even though they took cymbalta for fibromyalgia not depression
regards
Cookie
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Posted 14 July 2010 - 05:25 PM
cookie, on 14 July 2010 - 04:34 AM, said:
Dear Snozcumber:
Please do not feel like such a failure!!!!! do NOT feel that you are failing your partner, your work. All you are doing by thinking this way is giving yourself additional stress, which you don´t need right now.
The only person you shouldn´t fail at this moment is YOURSELF.
Cold turkey is the worst way to quit cymbalta. Even in the package, it says not to do it.
My best advice (I´m not a doctor) would be that you go back to a certain dose of cymbalta, and start weaning from there slowly. You don´t have to go back to your initial dose, it can be a little lower.
Crying and panic are withdrawal symptoms I´ve experienced.
Your doctor might be right, you wouldn´t feel like this if you were on cymbalta. But if you quit later, you will go through this symptoms anyway, unless you wean slowly. I am not a doctor, but I feel that the depression your feeling is not the initial illness coming back, but just a withdrawal symptom. I´ve seen people on this site, getting off cymbalta and experiencing depression even though they took cymbalta for fibromyalgia not depression
regards
Cookie
Please do not feel like such a failure!!!!! do NOT feel that you are failing your partner, your work. All you are doing by thinking this way is giving yourself additional stress, which you don´t need right now.
The only person you shouldn´t fail at this moment is YOURSELF.
Cold turkey is the worst way to quit cymbalta. Even in the package, it says not to do it.
My best advice (I´m not a doctor) would be that you go back to a certain dose of cymbalta, and start weaning from there slowly. You don´t have to go back to your initial dose, it can be a little lower.
Crying and panic are withdrawal symptoms I´ve experienced.
Your doctor might be right, you wouldn´t feel like this if you were on cymbalta. But if you quit later, you will go through this symptoms anyway, unless you wean slowly. I am not a doctor, but I feel that the depression your feeling is not the initial illness coming back, but just a withdrawal symptom. I´ve seen people on this site, getting off cymbalta and experiencing depression even though they took cymbalta for fibromyalgia not depression
regards
Cookie
I am day 14 off. I am angry, depressed volatile and tearful. That is not the worst part. I dislocated a cervical vertebrae and my first rib in my sleep due to sleeping so poorly and fitfully in a locked position. I have full blown fibromyalgia with pain and swelling in my entire body. Here is the kicker: even going through this, I know that I ma better off without the drug, that what I am feeling and experiencing has to be temporary and that it has to get better eventually. Keep trying your best to cope, go back to work and fake it 'till you make it. It is better than moping alone at home. Life is beautiful and wonderful, even if we feel like junk!
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 03:48 AM
I know the lack of energy is hard to bare, but try to get out and get some exercise. Even if it means buying a hula hoop and hula hooping inside. Anything helps.
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