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Are My Flu-Like Symptoms Still Withdrawal? Quit cold turkey 11-8-2010

#1 Pattie

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To research why I'm currently in a hypomanic episode after quitting Cymbalta. I've never been diagnosed as being bipolar. No matter what i've told various primary care providers and 1 psychiatrist over the past 12 years, they all said I was suffering from depression. However, is it possible that Im actually Bipolar II?

Posted 30 December 2010 - 02:25 PM

For the past 3 days I have been pretty sick with what feels like either a cold or the flu, again. Could this still be withdrawal? I had a flu shot in September. It seems like since I quit cymbalta, I still keep getting sick every other week (that does not include the two full weeks right after quitting).

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Posted 31 December 2010 - 12:13 AM

How long have you been off Cymbalta? I am weaning off Cymbalta and felt crappy yesterday. Chills, feer, and cough.

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Posted 31 December 2010 - 07:17 AM

RickWC, on 31 December 2010 - 12:13 AM, said:

How long have you been off Cymbalta? I am weaning off Cymbalta and felt crappy yesterday. Chills, feer, and cough.

do the research, this drug can take 6-8 months to completely be gone from your system. I have been weaning down from 120 mg for over 2 yrs to now I am at 20 mg and am going to go every other day in January til off....this has been a 4 month process and each drop I go thru flu like symptoms and I go thru bouts of sleep, 14-20 hrs. maybe 2 or 3 times until regulated. I am happy to see Cymbalta posted on Erin Brockovich site but now the FDA and Eli Lilly need to be held accountable.
Take care...
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#4 Pattie

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To research why I'm currently in a hypomanic episode after quitting Cymbalta. I've never been diagnosed as being bipolar. No matter what i've told various primary care providers and 1 psychiatrist over the past 12 years, they all said I was suffering from depression. However, is it possible that Im actually Bipolar II?

Posted 31 December 2010 - 09:31 AM

I went off cold turkey 11-8-10. I can't seem to find much about cold turkey since most wean. I was on 30 mg for 2 months, and 60 mg for the last two months, although I've been on one antidepressant or another for 12 years.

#5 Pattie

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To research why I'm currently in a hypomanic episode after quitting Cymbalta. I've never been diagnosed as being bipolar. No matter what i've told various primary care providers and 1 psychiatrist over the past 12 years, they all said I was suffering from depression. However, is it possible that Im actually Bipolar II?

Posted 01 January 2011 - 06:02 PM

maddy, on 01 January 2011 - 04:59 PM, said:

I do not want to go off one drug and then have to ween off prozac, I have been on 30 mg now for a month, from 60 mg for two years, I have been off it now for three days, and today feel crappy, light headed, naseau, etc. I am taking dramamine to try to help those symptoms, till i started reading all this stuff I never knew what was causing a weight watcher to gain wait and have rolls around her middle, wow, i cannot wait to be off this crap.

I think you'll lose weight trying to get off this crap, if you're sick for as long as I have been. Keep me up to date. I'd like to know how it's going with you.