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[SantaTim]

I am serious. I am a 51 year old man that has been taking Cymbalta for chronic pain since early 2008. I had been up to 120 MG per day but dropped back to 60 MG about 4 months ago with some mild vertigo that lasted about 3 weeks. I recently lost my insurance and cannot afford Cymbalta anymore and through a miscommunication or someting with my PCP (doctor) I stopped cold turkey one week ago tomorrow. My PCP is trying to switch me to Prozac and I have been taking 10 MG of that the past few days.
On day 2 of my stopping the Cymbalta I started having pain from the head of my penis just rubbing against my underwear, I did not think a lot about it since I was feeling a whole lot of other symptoms. However, I am still having the pain and today I started having pins and needles pain in my entire penis and scrotum. I have not seen this mentioned on the site or in any other info on Cymbalta withdrawal. I wonder if it may be modesty that may prevent men from mentioning if they are experiencing this problem.
Have any other men out there noticed this problem?

[brooklyngirl]

I am sorry to hear about your symptoms but I would venture to say that yes probably people do feel uncomfortable talking about these sorts of symptoms--were you able to get advice from your PCP?

[susanw]

Interesting.... I am on day 4 of drug free and my breasts are KILLING me! Just brushing my arm against
the side causes PAIN.. not tenderness... PAIN.

The worst withdrawal symptoms for me on this god-forsaken ride is the body pain and lethargy...
so to me, I blame the breast-pain on the withdrawal too...
I haven't seen posts here that talk about specific locations of the body pain... but I believe for myself
that the pain is in targeted weak areas for me.... shoulders, hips and now breasts too... ugh

Good luck in your recovery
.. and to all of us

[vettergirl]

Now I am having terrible pain in my "private area".. This is terrible..even pjs hurt and to sit is horrid! I am on day 11 so I was not expecting this since the other symtoms are improving. Still ringing in the ears but this really hurts!