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[edgeofsane]

Hello again folks, just joined earlier today and have been on the site most of the day, but the problem with that is I have read so much good info and forgot or can't find stuff again. I have found out how and marked some things. I have been on 60 mg for quite some time and dropped to 30mg close to a week ago. Yes I do feel the withdrawals as well(headaches, body aches, dizzy,), but I am hoping I can make it on the "taper" off that I have been reading about. I am on 30 mg and want to come off on 10% at a time. I gathered this from one of NurseDeborah's posts

"Here's the bead count for 30 mg

30 mg = 270 beads minus 10 beads x's 2 weeks
20 mg = 180 beads same
10 mg = 90 beads same
5 mg = 45 beads same
1 mg = 9 beads same"

I will send her a pm for confusion I am having.

THANK YOU WHOEVER MADE THIS PLACE!

Read alot of stuff here already, thanks to all...some I remember are MaureenV, NurseDeborah, Greybeard, and can't remember whole name, but Queen something

[MaureenV]

Hello again folks, just joined earlier today and have been on the site most of the day, but the problem with that is I have read so much good info and forgot or can't find stuff again. I have found out how and marked some things. I have been on 60 mg for quite some time and dropped to 30mg close to a week ago. Yes I do feel the withdrawals as well(headaches, body aches, dizzy,), but I am hoping I can make it on the "taper" off that I have been reading about. I am on 30 mg and want to come off on 10% at a time. I gathered this from one of NurseDeborah's posts

"Here's the bead count for 30 mg

30 mg = 270 beads minus 10 beads x's 2 weeks
20 mg = 180 beads same
10 mg = 90 beads same
5 mg = 45 beads same
1 mg = 9 beads same"

I will send her a pm for confusion I am having.

THANK YOU WHOEVER MADE THIS PLACE!

Read alot of stuff here already, thanks to all...some I remember are MaureenV, NurseDeborah, Greybeard, and can't remember whole name, but Queen something

Hi there,

great stuff with all that reading.

Just remember though that there's no specific timetable that suits everybody. I took ten weeks to taper from 20mg to zero, some can go faster, some have to go slower.

Some, like me, find the withdrawal symptoms hit straight away, others find they longer to kick in. You'll soon find out which one you are.

regards, Maureen.

[edgeofsane]

Wait,
But they don't make Cymbalta in anything lower than 20mg,
so how are you going to go to 10mg then 5mg then 1mg
I would like to know for myself

By seperating into the clear gelcaps..ugh! I actually didn't have vertigo this morning, but I didn't have any 20mg tabs made up, so I took a 30mg...I am going right now to do some seperating for tomorrow morning and thereafter (I hope)

[MaureenV]

Wait,
But they don't make Cymbalta in anything lower than 20mg,
so how are you going to go to 10mg then 5mg then 1mg
I would like to know for myself

In Australia we don't have anything lower than 30mg. I also had some 60mg capsules from when I was on that dose.

Large chemist chains stock clear gelatine capsules, which I used to divide the doses (60 divided by 3 = 20mg. 60 divided by 4 = 15mg). If you want various doses, it's very easy to divide the beads 'visually' as the gel caps are transparent and quite big. I double checked occasionally and found the visual division was pretty accurate.

Once you get to a small enough dose you just count out the number of beads you want to take. Once I got to 5mg I went down 1mg at a time, so 45 beads, then 36 beads etc.

Others use exact bead counts rather than mg.

Someone suggested here the other day that because 10mg was below the therapeutic amount, they didn't have any problem dropping completely at that point. Well I did, when I attempted it, and so have lots of others. There's quite a difference between adding and subtracting.

I even noticed the effect dropping the last 1mg, and was tempted to take 1/2mg for a while (but didn't). After dropping the last mg in a very slow wean, the brain zaps continued for another three weeks. Mildly, admittedly, but enough to show that dropping any dose can have an effect on SOME ofus.


regards, Maureen.