Sleep / Over Sleeping. Difficult to wake. I let myself sleep for two weeks and averaged about 18 hours per day. Just enough time to get up, eat a meal and go back to bed. I thought I'd be able to sleep it off, but found this difficult.
Difficulty Focusing occasionally and particularly after waking.
Skin Temperature. Either too hot or too cold. Wake up with heavy sweating, which is freezing cold and makes it hard to leave the warm wet covers!
Itching. I itch a lot in very odd places...like the palms of my hands, elbow & knee pits and the arches (ticklish part) of my feet. I get zero relief from scratching or lotion.
Dull Headaches. Off and on. Two Advil seem to relieve these pretty well.
Dizziness / Loss of Balance. I can just walk along and "woooooooo" -- all of a sudden, I'm catching myself.
Misjudging Distances / Accident Prone. I've been running into walls, bumping my shoulder, stubbing toes, burned finger on stove.
Mild Nausea after eating, but also experience constant hunger.
Acne. Not sure if this is related to stopping or restarting.
Emotional Outbursts. Not over inconsequential matters, but my reactions to upset were not "like me."
The above symptoms were not so problematic that would cause me to stop my detox from Cymbalta -- with the exception of the sleep & emotional outbursts. If sleep was not remedied in enough time, this would have become an issue. I'm an independent consultant and have the luxury of flex projects and schedule. Had I not had some down time available, constant fatigue would have become problematic most definitely.
The symptom that caused me to restart taking Cymbalta this time was at 2 weeks with no Cymbalta, I began having the emotional over-reactions / outbursts with yelling and uncontrollable crying. These outbursts were situational, revolving around unresolved / tender matters between my husband and me. For instance...
I asked my husband if he would "do me a favor" and bring me breakfast because I was so tired and didn't feel well. He began a lecture on how he didn't want to "enable" me, and that I should take better control of my health (as if I were a child). I started sobbing and became hostile and told him I'd think twice about ever doing nice things I do for him again -- like putting lotion on his hands when he asked or clipping his toenails. The unfairness of this situation -- moreover the lack of support and loving spirit especially when I was down infuriated me and consumed me with hate for him. When he finally quit and left, I cried myself to sleep and did not eat until supper time.
Also, I felt myself become obsessed with past problems over which I have little control and experienced strong feelings of anger, hate and fear (particularly of abandonment), guilt and shame. Suicide crossed my mind as a viable alternative, but such actions never come to fruition for me. I just like to entertain it as a way to imagine myself into a state of relief.
