Recurrent Symptoms After Quitting Cymbalta

#1 Bjd

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Posted 04 September 2011 - 02:13 PM

I have had all the withdrawal symptoms that every one else has posted in the past posts and am wondering if anyone still gets these same symptoms? I still get sudden symptoms after being off of this drug for several months! Has anyone else have this happen to them?

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Posted 04 September 2011 - 03:51 PM

How long ago did you quit? What symptoms are you having again? Was there a period in which you were symptoms free?

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Posted 14 September 2011 - 11:11 AM

hey Bjd yes you're not alone here. I've been off of this stuff for 3 months and although most of the major side effects I had at the beginning are gone I still notice a very slight brain zap every now and then and some dizziness. I'm not depressed anymore and I don't need it but still very short of breath and need two inhalers.

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We should not be a nation of de facto chemicalized cattle Pharmed out to the very profitable benefit of huge private interests.
The influence of powerful lobbyists on Congress has made illness and its (expensive) treatments the focus. Not actual health. What is so wrong with our economic and political systems that close to half the population is on antidressants or anti-anxiety meds?
The withdrawl symptoms form Cymbalta alone are enough to condemn loose (or unenforced) regulations, questionable clinical trials conducted overseas with little oversight, and the horrid practice of gnerating demand via ads on TV.

Posted 03 October 2011 - 02:56 PM

CymbaltaHell, on 14 September 2011 - 11:11 AM, said:

Whoa! Do you (or anyone else here) know of other people with the "shortness of breath" symptom? That's one I haven't heard of. But I may be another. I've had a bronchitis-like upper respiratory irritation which causes me to cough now and then. I'm not a cougher; that's a rare thing for me.

This symptom came on about the same time as the more commonly described dizziness. Especially with side to side eye movement, which others on this forum have reported. Since a truism of scientific thought is that corrolation is not causation, I did not consider that the breath thing may indeed be related.

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Posted 03 October 2011 - 03:19 PM

i have shortness of breath as well. I have asthma wich i was diagnosed with 2 years into taking 60mg. I been off for 3 days weaned slowly. Makes me question my sudden asthma. I wouldn't think it was related until now.

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Posted 03 October 2011 - 05:38 PM

Once a few years ago I quit Cymbalta c/t and developed hypersensitivity pneumonitis,

which is an inflammation of the lungs. I had severe shortness of breath. I'm convinced

it was due to Cymbalta.

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Posted 03 October 2011 - 05:57 PM

wolfmoon2682, on 03 October 2011 - 03:19 PM, said:

Around may of this year I was very close to zero miligrams. I started getting severe shorness of breath. I had to updose and it went away. I am so mad, this thing is bringing me so many physical symptoms I didn´t have prior to the medication

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Posted 04 October 2011 - 12:21 PM

I am a competitive athlete and the shortness of breath just started one day along with increased HR spikes. NOW I know what is was. Doctors just blew me off due to my extreme level of fitness, but I KNEW something wasn't right. They (Cardiologists, Pulmonary Specialist, MD's)even knew I was on Cymbalta at the time too and NOONE ever questioned it but rather just chalked it up to stress. Now I can see that it all started the same month I began taking Cymbalta and Zoloft. They were the ONLY 2 meds I was on so it has to be connected.

wolfmoon2682, on 03 October 2011 - 03:19 PM, said:

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Posted 05 October 2011 - 03:37 PM

Ugh...this is all just adding up so much! I have had BP issues but also very high heart rate for weeks without exerting ANY energy. It will go up just because I eat. But no one seems to question the Cymbalta! One other thing, now that I'm at about a month at the lower 30mg dose, I feel horrible: depressed again, crying for no reason, not handling stressors well, highly defensive and over-reactive. I've almost come to the conclusion that I should go back up to the 60mg again just to...feel better. But, I also don't want to live "addicted" to a medication.

Don't know what to do.....

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Posted 30 October 2011 - 05:34 PM

TWG I hope that this message finds you much better than when you posted. I really really hope you were able to fight through and stay off the poison. My heart rate has steadied, my BP is constant and the dizziness is gone. I still experience some moments of being over-reactive but for the most part I am feeling much better, hope you are too!