Hello, I didn't know about this web site until the other day. I have been on 60Mg of Cymbalta for 6 years or so. Cut to 30Mg a day, 1 1/2 weeks ago and I feel like total crap. I talked to my doctor about getting off the Cymbalta because it could cause BPH in men and I have to take another pill to urinate better. Started having vertigo all the time. Doc. said it was the pee pill causing vertigo and I think the Cymbalta was causing it. Get rid of one and maybe the other as well, is how I felt. Now I don't know??? I am so depressed and that is not like me at all, I think because my whole body hurts so bad. I am 59 years old, in good health, broke my back in 1999 and worked until about 4 years ago. Had two back surgeries and have no feeling in either of my feet because of nerve damage. I have had the facet nerves burned in my back.
Getting off this crap and this feeling anxiety all the time is something that I am finding hard to deal with and it is winter here to boot.. I tried some weed the other day and that seemed to help. Put me in a different state of mind where I felt happier and it seemed to take some of the pain away, helped me focus better and helped me sleep better that night. I have a friend who swears there are some marijuana's out there that would help me better than a lot of pills would. Seems like everyone wants you to substitute one thing for another.
I don't feel like doing anything, I am hard to get along with, want to sleep a lot or not for long (is it day or night), seem to have memory loss when talking, sweaty and clammy dizzy and shaky feeling and I loose track easy.
Another thing, and please don't think I am crazy, I have been trapped in the same dream at night since starting Cymbalta. Fun place most of the time and I have given directions so I am learning my way around. Dead people I knew are there sometimes. Most people I don't even know and I am never alone really. One thing I do know, there is a war going on somewhere and it is a war between good and evil.
I tried and can't take fish oil or flack seed oil because it messes my stomach up. I got Myalgia from taking Statins and it never went away so what the hell, they give you Cymbalta because you now have chronic pain syndrome