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When I first started Cymbalta, the 60mg dose made me sick, so I wanted to taper up from 20mg to 60mg.

Since I had a bunch of 60mg capsules and didn't want to pay for a whole new 20mg script, I decided to use a milligram scale to help me along.

I purchased a milligram scale from ebay (I think the brand is j-scale and the model is JS-VG) for under $50. I've attached a picture of the one I've got.

I dumped out the contents/beads of a 60mg Cymbalta capsule and I determined that the 60mg capsules all contained ~210mg of beads.

I did the math and figured out:

20mg=70mg of beads, therefore, 1mg of active drug=3.5mg of beads

I would weigh out 70mg of beads and fill capsules I bought at the healthfood store which gave me 90 (20mg dosage capsules, weighing 70mg of beads each).

Now that I have decided to come off Cymbalta, I will do the same, but in reverse.

My plan is to reduce my dosage by 1mg daily until I get down to 0.

I hope this is helpful to you.. I know it made life a LOT easier than counting beads, which I ended up spilling all the time.

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