[snozcumber]

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.

[ernie]

what vitamins are you taking?
-Ernie

[ernie]

ernie, on 13 July 2010 - 07:09 PM, said:

what vitamins are you taking?
-Ernie

Also Read my Ernie's diary and you will see we are not to far apart on how we feel. Day 28 for me.

[cookie]

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
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[tryingtobeagoodmama]

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.