Went Cold Turkey
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Posted 16 November 2011 - 12:04 PM
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Posted 20 November 2011 - 04:22 AM
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Posted 21 November 2011 - 11:57 AM
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Posted 21 November 2011 - 02:36 PM
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Posted 23 November 2011 - 04:44 AM
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Posted 29 November 2011 - 09:00 AM
I have been on Cymbalta 60mg for over 7yrs after being prescribed it for migraines and restless legs. I am day 15 after stopping coldturkey!! YAY Me! I will NEVER take Cymbalta again! I have missed doses before...tried to stop before but this time is IT!! I do believe cold turkey is the way to go...you have the same withdrawals regardless of how you stop this AWFUL drug. I have explained and read everything I could find to my close friends and loved ones so that they could understand what I am going through and with hopes that they will be patient with me... a great support system is what has gotten me through these 15 days. I no longer have the withdrawal headaches...however I am still dizzy, diarrhea, insomnia and have my RAGES...I have faith in God and myself that I will do this! I truly sympathize with drug addicts now and will never take another medication without knowing the withdrawal symptoms and just HOW addictive the medication is!
I am having horrible withdraw symptoms and was only on this drug 2 weeks. This stuff is Poison!! I couldn't handle the side effects while taking it and my Doctor told me to just quit. WRONG!! He should know what people go through. Cymbalta completely alters your brain!! Scary!! I am on day 7 off of it. Does the ringing, brain zaps, anger, dizziness finally go away??
#9
Posted 02 December 2011 - 01:13 AM
I went to the doc after not feeling right fuzzy in the head, feeling dizzy like i couldn,t concentrate. The doc took my blood pressure and it was very high 175/121 i was taken off my cymbalta 60mg cold turkey. With everyday that went on istill felt not right. I was back to the doc every 2 days. I felt like i was going crazy i thought i had had a stroke because of the BP. I attempted to go back to work today and i lasted 2hrs the concentration, fuzzy vision got too much....... I came home jumped on the computer looking up anxiety etc typing in my symptoms. It wsnt till i looked up cymbalta and read the posts and i broke into tears because after 2wks i have an answer. i was getting frustrated because its hard to explain what i was feeling and no o
ne was understanding me.
i like the description of feeling like i am drunk, with a hangover..describes it so well
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Posted 02 December 2011 - 01:28 PM
Ignazio,hello this is ignazio closing in on 2 weeks my rage and anger are out of control my sleep habits are whack im either hot or real cold im un bearable right now from what i understand this gets worse.the doc prescribes welbutrin but i wont take it no after this exp. w/cymbalta i get shock like sensation when i look right or left real quick i was on cymbalta 1.5 yrs to long
I am currently using wellbutrin I have been on that while also on cymbalta and lamictal, I am closing in on my 4th night without both of the latter and haven't had more than a headache and light headedness. I don't know if it is because of the wellbutrin, but it might be worth a try.
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Posted 02 December 2011 - 04:12 PM
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Posted 08 December 2011 - 05:27 AM
I just got off of Cymbalta going cold turkey. I am on day 8 now and it's been interesting. When I do look either way with my eyes I do get that zaping expierence you all talk about. I have been eating more and it feels like my digestive system is returning back to normal (thank God!). I have been in a better mood lately and have SO much energy it's amazing. In the evening I take hydrocodone I was prescribed to take the edge off and have a couple of drinks and it sure helps LOL. I am getting a tingling sensation around my limbs which is new, but my better half has researched the effects of me coming down off of it and is in complete support of me...YAY! I'm pretty sure it was having an effect on my sexual desire and function and that is the reason I stopped taking it. Has anyone else had that experience? Just wondering. Any advice or encourgement would---hey bud i went thru the same thing lack of sexual desire digestive problems i gained alot of weight it's my 5th week w/out and im back in the gym i have intense enrgy the sex problem is gone you are gonna be fine a good support system helps have a beer for me!!!!!!!!!
#15
Posted 11 December 2011 - 12:58 AM
To keep my sanity I will refill my prescription of Cymbalta again somehow in the next few hours.....
I will need to go pick up my Cymbalta again because I am totally loosing my mind.
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Posted 11 December 2011 - 06:28 AM
It's about a month now simce I started my journey to a cymbalta-free existence. I realized that it didn't help me with my depression. Intead, it kept me at home not wanting to socialze or do anything beccause my energy level has become zero with this drug. On the first day, I removed 15 granules (5%) of the total humber in the capsue. I kept this for a week and on the second week, i incresed it to 10%, then 15% and now I.m on 20%. i experienced very little discomofrt until today. So i can be functjonal tommorrow, I will go back to the 15% deduction and stay on it until there are no symptoms and then I'll move on.
This is s much better plan than the one I was on when I tried to wean of Pzxil, my doctor just told me to half the dosage . The consequences were terrible. I lay in bed for days at a time sick as dog. Now for me at least, I know that the way to do it is to do it very gradually. good luck to all
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Posted 11 December 2011 - 07:45 AM
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Posted 11 December 2011 - 12:42 PM
my doc put me on 90 mg of cymbalta last yr i was in the best shape of my life 33 active and in the gym,since i started this stuff i've been sedated ive gained 20 lbs and dont even look at the gym so i decided to go cold turkey it's been 10 days and things are just getting started hot flashes ,headaches ,upset stomach and the worst case of insomnia ever was up over 24 hrs since i quit i cant eat i cry alot this is a bad drug unfortunately for me no one knows what im talking about so im glad i found you i just have to talk to someone who gets it some crazy stuff goes onin your mind when you don't sleep this is the third straight day with a migraine and my body aches from lack of sleep im a mess and from what i read im in for a bit of a challenge i refuse to take anymore pils besides my clonazpam because my anxiety has gone thru the roof also 4x10 mg a day
Hi, I just came off cymbalta two weeks ago i was taking 60mg w/ 150 mg welbutrin and read somewhere on the internet to come off slowly I took a few pills and took out a little out of each pill for 3 days then the next 3 days a little more and so on while still on my wellbutrin. I know this sounds weird maybe but I had very little side effects just felt a little off for a couple days when I finally came off totally. The measuring was a pain to try and get it just right and my Doctor would kill me if he knew but it's a lot better than going thru all those withdrawls. I don't know if this can help anybody but it might be worth the try for someone. Good Luck.
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Posted 11 December 2011 - 12:56 PM
MY whole day was wasted today. I had planned on putting up the tree and tidying the house. But at noon time, after I walked the dog, I came home with a starting headache. I thought maybe I was just hungry because I had only a piece of toast for breakfast and a cup of coffee. So I decided to make myself a light but nutritious lunch. It was after I had lunch that I started to feel nausea and increaing headache. I felt queasy and could feel my breakfast and lunch starting to come up but I tried to stay as still as I can so as not to lose my lunch. Every slight movement of my head rewarded me with those horrible "zaps. I had experienced these zaps before when I tried to wean myself from Paxil. It was even a while before i realized that my irritability, flu-like symptoms, head-splitting headaches, nausea, vomiting etc were withdrawal symptoms from Paxil which i had been taking for years.
It's about a month now simce I started my journey to a cymbalta-free existence. I realized that it didn't help me with my depression. Intead, it kept me at home not wanting to socialze or do anything beccause my energy level has become zero with this drug. On the first day, I removed 15 granules (5%) of the total humber in the capsue. I kept this for a week and on the second week, i incresed it to 10%, then 15% and now I.m on 20%. i experienced very little discomofrt until today. So i can be functjonal tommorrow, I will go back to the 15% deduction and stay on it until there are no symptoms and then I'll move on.
This is s much better plan than the one I was on when I tried to wean of Pzxil, my doctor just told me to half the dosage . The consequences were terrible. I lay in bed for days at a time sick as dog. Now for me at least, I know that the way to do it is to do it very gradually. good luck to all
Hi I did the same thing but Im on wellbutrin so I think that helped a little, I'm totally off it now but my pain is coming back in my shoulders so now I have to find something else. But I went on this for depression and I was more depressed because I was so tired didn't want to go out after work or even get out of bed sometimes now I have energy again. Good Luck
#22
Posted 13 December 2011 - 12:58 PM
I have been on Cymbalta 60mg for over 7yrs after being prescribed it for migraines and restless legs. I am day 15 after stopping coldturkey!! YAY Me! I will NEVER take Cymbalta again! I have missed doses before...tried to stop before but this time is IT!! I do believe cold turkey is the way to go...you have the same withdrawals regardless of how you stop this AWFUL drug. I have explained and read everything I could find to my close friends and loved ones so that they could understand what I am going through and with hopes that they will be patient with me... a great support system is what has gotten me through these 15 days. I no longer have the withdrawal headaches...however I am still dizzy, diarrhea, insomnia and have my RAGES...I have faith in God and myself that I will do this! I truly sympathize with drug addicts now and will never take another medication without knowing the withdrawal symptoms and just HOW addictive the medication is!
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Posted 13 December 2011 - 01:05 PM
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Posted 13 December 2011 - 10:02 PM
by the way... spoke to a person at the company today, and they told me to wean to 30 mg/day over a couple of weeks, then go off the drug. Pretty funny, actually, since I was only taking 30 mg/day.
I can function as long as I don't move my head quickly; that's when the vertigo hits.
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Posted 13 December 2011 - 11:05 PM
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Posted 14 December 2011 - 04:24 PM
Anyway, from 120 mg., I dropped to 60 mg without telling my doctor. The withdrawal effects were terrible but i stuck with it because there was no way I am going back after I have learned of the toxicity of these drugs. Then I read other people's posts about how they tapered off by removing granules from the capsules, gradually increasing the number removed. I decided to try that method by removing 7 granules and staying there 3 or 4 days before increasing. I am now removing 70 granules (from the 60 mg cap) and this is the time that I am experiencing the worst withdrawal effects. But I've come this far and I'm not going back. I plan to stay on this dosage until I'm not feeling sick and then will again increase the granules removed and so on until I'm totally off it. By the way, cymbalta also comes in 30, 20 and 10 mg caps which I could use instead of removing granules but I still have several bottlesful of 60 mg caps which I will use intead of buying smaller dosage capsules which my doctor will probably be reluctant to give me a prescription for, when he learns I'm tapering off the drug without his consent.
So, if you are struggling with this issue like me, hang in there. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.
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Posted 14 December 2011 - 05:13 PM
Let's all remember that the internet tends to aggregate people with BAD EXPERIENCES.
I have been on 60mg, 30mg, and 20mg randomly, daily for the past 2 years for neuropathic pain from neck discs. I really never though that Cymbalta did much .... it was just impossible to get off of it without the ZAPS. For the past 3 months i have been on 20mg/day.....no ZAPS....feel normal...
I went COLD TURKEY on Saturday Night. 4 days later i am definitely very dizzy...pretty zappy.....its hard to use a computer....
BUT IT IS BY NO MEANS THE WORST WITHDRAWAL IN THE WORLD. (TO THIS POINT)
I have detoxed from opiates and that was much worse. So I just want to say that so far, at this point, I am going to CONTINUE COLD TURKEY.
#29
Posted 14 December 2011 - 05:17 PM
I just got off of Cymbalta going cold turkey. I am on day 8 now and it's been interesting. When I do look either way with my eyes I do get that zaping expierence you all talk about. I have been eating more and it feels like my digestive system is returning back to normal (thank God!). I have been in a better mood lately and have SO much energy it's amazing. In the evening I take hydrocodone I was prescribed to take the edge off and have a couple of drinks and it sure helps LOL. I am getting a tingling sensation around my limbs which is new, but my better half has researched the effects of me coming down off of it and is in complete support of me...YAY! I'm pretty sure it was having an effect on my sexual desire and function and that is the reason I stopped taking it. Has anyone else had that experience? Just wondering. Any advice or encourgement would be helpful!
yes...i found it diminishes desire. i am on day 4 cold turkey...don't want to take it because it does NOTHING for me. prescribed by eager doctor
#30
Posted 14 December 2011 - 05:30 PM
I went to a naturopath - I wish I had done that in the first place to deal with my anxiety and depression. I just took the Doc's advice carte blanche. And she put me on Cymbalta. What was I thinking. Oh wait, I wasn't able to think very clearly....
So, what I am doing to get through the symptoms/side effects, as per my naturopath: Morning: 2 omega 3 tabs, 2 magnesium tabs, 1 probiotic, 1 B6 tab. Evening: 2 omega 3 tabs, 2 magnesium tabs, 1 multivitamin. I am also doing acupuncture and getting weekly vitamin B (12?) shots at the naturopathic centre. The acupuncture seems to have helped quite a bit. Will continue that throughout the rest of December and into January. (I am lucky, I am in Canada and have an EXCELLENT health care plan that covers a bunch of non-traditional treatment options so everything is covered).
The only symptoms I am experiencing right now are: crankiness (everything seems to irritate me), lethargy (I don't want to do much of anything). However, on days I missed my dose, I experienced wicked brain zaps, body tics, vertigo and extreme fatigue. I expect these will rear their ugly heads when I am completely off. So I made a plan....
Planned my exodus for over the Christmas holidays....I am off work from Dec 16 till Jan 3. Hoping I get through the worst withdrawal symptoms throughout that time. My family knows not to have high expectations of me this year.
The worst part of being on this drug has been the weight gain. 35lbs in 16 months. And I work out a lot. And eat super healthy. No matter what I did, I couldn't lose weight. Now my clothes are too tight and my self esteem is in the gutter.
The best advice I've been given is to be patient with myself. This terrible experience is just for now, not forever.
Be strong, and we'll all get through this.
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