I was on Cymbalta for 1.5 months at 60 mg. I was fine on the drug and it seemed to help my depressive symptoms, but I recently got into a relationship and the sexual side effects for me (aka no sex drive and my clitoris felt like it was dead) were just not something I wanted to live with.
Additional annoying side effects were forgetfulness and a general feeling of numbness/haziness. I also found that my response to favorite songs that would usually get my blood pumping had ZERO effect on me. Like, they sounded boring.
So I took two weeks to do a self taper by opening up the capsules and dumping about half out the first week (30mg) and then about 75% out for the second week (20mg). Then I stopped.
So far I am having headache and nausea (kind of like a carsick feeling) and major vertigo/brain zaps (I mentioned in another post the Sudafed helps with the brain zaps....unfortunately it doesn't help too much with the mild nausea feeling).
I've also had an increase in appetite, incredibly LONG and vivid dreams, and general malaise. I just feel like I'm hung over all the time.
No depressive symptoms aside from the general depression one gets from feeling like shit physically.
The good news is I can orgasm again (ha) and music once again sounds good and gives me that little "high". Seems my memory seems a bit better and I have more mental clarity (aka, I feel like myself again, warts and all).
My question is, after only 1.5 months on the drug, can I just wait out these withdrawal symptoms or should I bead count a bit more down from that 20mg?
I'm 3 days off the drug completely.