Yep, Joe, everything you're experiencing is from the Cymbalta leaving your system ..and yep, getting off this stuff takes quite a while for a lot of people ... those of us who are here on the forum are those people. Some are able to get off the drug quite easily, and in a short amount of time. But a lot of folks have a lot of trouble ... it's truly different for each and every individual. You're finding out, I think, that you're going to need to do this more slowly.... and yep, bead counting is the way to do it ...
All of these symptoms you've got are due to the big drop in Serotonin in your brain as you dose down. Believe it or not, coming down by just 10 mg. all at once constitutes a pretty big drop. Cymbalta artificially boosts the serotonin level, and when we start reducing our dose, our poor brain has to relearn how to manage serotonin by itself again. Your brain is essentially screaming at you for dropping down in dose ...
So, Let's see if I've got this straight ... you were on 120 for 2 years ... that's a really high dose, so my bet is your brain is really "hooked" on that big of a serotonin boost ... you dropped to 110 mg on September 2, and you've been at 110 for about 19 days ... almost a full 3 weeks ... and, you're still not feeling good all the time, but you are having some good days/periods of time ...
I'm thinking you've got several choices ...1) hold at 110 mg, ride out the symptoms and wait until you get stable ... then go back to bead counting, by removing just a few beads every day ... or, every few days ... whatever number of beads and over whatever period of time your body will allow you to do without giving you unmanageable symptoms...
2) go back up to the full 120 and get stable there, then count down....
3) go back up to a dose somewhere between 120 and 110 ... by taking just a few beads out of the 120, then staying at that level until stable ... but for that approach, I need to let the others here who know bead counting really well help you figure out how many beads, etc. (I think I mentioned further up in this thread that I'm a cold turkey survivor ... the fast hard drop, and the long hard recovery. )
Hang in there ... the first few weeks of this are the hardest in terms of symptoms, the most confusing in terms of trying to learn why this is happening, how to manage the weaning process, and how to listen to what our brain/body is telling us ...
Stay tuned... our resident bead-counters will be here soon!