Cymbalta Withdrawal Support and Cymbalta Side Effects Help: FDA REPORT - Cymbalta Withdrawal Support and Cymbalta Side Effects Help

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FDA REPORT

#1 barney59

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I have been on Cymbalta for several years and my doctor started weening me off 3 wks ago. I am now having symptoms that I don't understand

Posted 29 September 2009 - 07:48 PM

Wanted to share this link with all of you. My doctor found it very helpful and enlightening. I shared it with firefighter1042 but didn't know how many people may miss it. I think it is important for our doctors to read this. Then maybe they might realize what we are going thru is real, and begin to trust what we say. My opinion, just fyi..

http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCo ... 172866.pdf

Again, hope I linked it right, if not see Zap Zap Zap thread

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#2 MaureenV

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Am trying to get off Cymbalta 30mg and wondering about brain zaps.

Posted 29 September 2009 - 08:12 PM

Hi Barney,

excellent - link works - thanks for that.

SOME doctors etc would be dismissive of what's on here because they would claim that those who had no problems obviously wouldn't bother, which is where the number of searches for withdrawal is fantastic.

My GP has been fantastic - feels bad that I've had to go through this. It would be a damned sight worse without a supportive doctor.

Maureen.

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I am a sufferer of depression and GAD. After 20 years of suffering with undiagnosed GAD (to be fair to the medical profession, it wasn't in the DSM back then) I stumbled upon Aropax following a bout of depression. Having had the therapy I badly needed at the time, I came good and did well on Aropax for 11 years. Last year I started having difficulty with sleeping and thought I was suffering the poop out effect, so I switched to Lexapro. A few months later I realised it was causing me more problems than it was solving so my GP agreed to give me a referral to a psychiatrist - so we could work out the best medicine for me. Nearly 3 weeks on Cymbalta and I've stopped already. I've had restlessness, increased insomnia (I now recognise that there is more to that), an inability to concentrate (the opposite of the real me) and nausea. I want to converse with others who are going through the same issues with medication.

Posted 30 September 2009 - 05:14 AM

Well well well. Very interesting. Thanks for that link Barney. I might print that out and take that with me when I see my psychiatrist. LOL - haven't even got the referral yet! Still... I might give my regular GP a copy too.

#4 nursedeborah

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I am reallly trying to get off Cymbalta, and not having, well I am having nightmares even with the decreased does, and clanging in my head.

I just found this site, and I really need help, I can't do this, I fear I willl never get off this brutal medication.

Deboreah Wesson

Posted 30 September 2009 - 04:49 PM

Barney,
Sending it to both my doc's!

Thanks so much,
Debbie

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