Hello to all...
I was here a little over a year ago after stopping Cymbalta abruptly. Long story short...I was on Cymbalta for 2 years and missed 3 days worth. I started having severe withdrawal symptoms (zapping, electrical zaps, numbness and tingling) and it started a whirlwind of doctors appts. My anxiety is and always has been medically related. I worry when something is wrong with me to the point of going crazy. Only when something is wrong and I don't know what is causing it. Anyway, my doctor at the time told me to just stop taking it (she had NO clue what was going on or anything about this poison called Cymbalta). She told me to stay off of it for a week and start Prozac. I had researched and knew that wouldn't be best so I started Prozac the next day and took it for 8 months. I then moved across country and had some very stressful things happen in my life and I ran out of the Prozac. I didn't have an established doctor so I just stopped taking it. I am very sensitive to these drugs. Prior to Cymbalta I was on Paxil and I've always had the worst withdrawal symptoms.
A few weeks after stopping the Prozac I started getting Ocular Migraines. The only other time in my life I had these was when I stopped the Cymbalta. Then I started getting the cold feet, numbness in my foot again, my hand would go numb....all the things that happened before. For some reason I didn't put it together though. I thought it was my B12 being low so I started taking that. I can't believe I was so stupid I didn't put it together. I started feeling awful...like I was sick but didn't know why. I thought I had a sinus infection because I felt pressure in my sinuses, like behind my eyes and nose and my inner ear. For the last month and a half I went to 3 different doctors, and ENT, an allergist (I have no allergies at all) and the ER twice. I've been given more medicine than I can explain. They ruled out sinusitis after Claritin, 2 antibiotics and nasal sprays. Then a CT Scan of my sinuses and one of my head with contrast to rule out anything serious. I was told I had a migraine but the different migraine medicines didn't touch it. Nothing makes this pressure go away.
So last Saturday night I was laying in bed praying to God to make this go away and to help me figure this out. In the middle of the night I woke up and thought CYMBALTA & PROZAC!!! The next day I started taking Prozac again. It was one of the many medicines I was given but didn't take so I had it. I am on Day 5 now of the Prozac. I think that the Cymbalta withdrawal symptoms though are still present even though I haven't taken it in a year. When I stopped the Prozac it all started again. The doctors don't understand it, I'm going crazy from the pressure in my head/sinus/inner ear. It isn't a real headache but just pressure. Constant 24/7 Pressure for over a month now. My anxiety has been crazy, I'm tired like crazy, my stomach is messed up, I have some numbness in my feet again like before too. It helps my anxiety to read about others who feel the same way so that's what I do all day it seems. I have three children and I feel I'm not being my normal self and I feel so bad about that. It takes everything I have to keep the house going. Today I've just been laying on the couch. I wish I could go to my doctor and they take a test and say, yep you are suffering from withdrawal...just give it time and you will get better. I know there is no such test though so I just read and google to try to reassure myself. I've tried making an appt with a psychiatrist but there are no appts for months!!
I'm at a loss and just so bummed.