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[bigbird]

Hello fellow Cymbalta users! I am a 50 year old woman who has been on anti-depressants of some form since 1997. I have been on the Cymbalta for 3 years and I have gained much weight and feel I need to finally cleanse my body of these toxins I have filled it with. Would like to feel normal again if that is possible.. After being on 60mg for so long, I went to taking 60mg every day to taking it every other day and in 2 weeks I had stopped it completely on July 2. My symptoms were and still are Diahrea,brain Zaps(annoying) headaches,emotional instability,not wanting to do much of anything(not me)... Yesterday July 6 in the evening it got very bad so I ended up taking what I think was 30 mg because I took one of the capsules apart and took half the medicine. I ended up staying up late because I couldnt sleep and I was starving!! So I ate what I could stomach wheat thins with peanut butter, and I finally went to sleep. I made an appointment with my gp for tomorrow and hope to get some relief from these symptoms..But with everything I have read here it seems I just have to go through it and conquer this monster!! I plan on keeping up my walking in the mornings and eating nutritional foods with extra Omega 3 and I think vitamin d??? To those of you who are winning the battle please keep up the posting because it gives us all hope!!!

God Bless You All!!!!
Helen

[tryingtobeagoodmama]

I'm doing badly too! It's so tempting to take it again, just to feel some normalcy. I'm taking 30/mg every 4th day. I thankfully have not received brain zaps. A few months ago I quit cold-turkey and it was awful. I had nystagmus, and I went crazy. Right now I am tired all the time. I got a facial today and passed out on the table. I woke up to my snoring! My allergies are really bad too. I'm also very weepy and anxious. I am also very dizzy all the time. I seem to not have balance and I have a difficult time forming words sometimes. I'll try to say a word and I am thinking it, but when I say it, the word is all jumbled. It's bizzarre. I have extreme feeling of dread... I took my pre-natal vitamin that has a lot of Omega'a in it, and that seemed to help a little.

It's just so tempting to get back on it... stay strong.