My Weaning Diary...
#1
Posted 08 August 2012 - 06:55 AM
I am using the only "researched" method of weaning off this terrible drug: PROZAC
I am up to 40 mg of Prozac. I weaned up over the last 3 weeks.
Taking Cymbalta AND Prozac, I have noticed a pretty constant headache.
Today is day one of the "wean down" process with Cymbalta.
Today I am weaning down from 60 mg of cymbalta to 30 mg.
I am doing all this on the direction of my psychiatrist (who also dislikes cymbalta and it's family members)...
Remembering the horrible withdraw symptoms (see my previous posts) from previous times of trying to wean, I am terrified.
Wish me luck...
I will keep you all updated each day
#3
Posted 10 August 2012 - 07:23 PM
Taking 40 mg prozac to try to help with the withdraw
Definately not as bad as just trying to wean down with nothing else to help.
The irritability is there. It comes in waves.
I'm having some nausea.
Other then that, so far.. ok... I'm dreading when I'm on 0 cymbalta... but that's not for a while..
Gonna take this slow ..
How is everyone else?
#4
Posted 11 August 2012 - 08:15 AM
I remember this happening before when I weaned without prozac.... the first 2 days weren't horrible but once I hit day 3, it hit... All the bad symptoms.
I am very irritable.
My thought processes aren't like typical
I'm shaky
And to compound all this, I am ANGRY that we have to go through this to come off an FDA APPROVED DRUG!!!
#5
Posted 11 August 2012 - 11:37 AM
#6
Posted 11 August 2012 - 03:26 PM
Stick with it, keep posting. Thank you for writing. I went from 60 to 30 and am stuck there for now. It's been about 2 months of slow reduction in milligrams. I think if I went straight from 60 to 30 I would have had a more difficult time. Pouring out a few beads and increasing the disposed amount each day was a good way to go for me.
From bad to worse.... all in the same day....
You are so right mick.... This day 3 is like a hallmark no matter how you try to wean.
Today started this am with irritability and shakiness...
Now I've been crying on and off all day...
Little things seem HUGE!!!! I can't stop crying.
I probably should have done what you did, but I was following "doctors" instructions...
I really can't stand cymbalta....Eli Lilly...... FDA...... They all make me sick
How the He#$*( are we supposed to function in our everyday lives like this?
#8
Posted 12 August 2012 - 01:57 PM
Last year not knowing about the withdrawal effect at all, I tried cold turkey and got so sick that I got bed ridden.. I came on cymbalta again.. almost 4 months back I tried to increase the gap (as prescribed by my doctor) it was hell.. when the gap reached 5 days... anxiety hit me so hard that I had to go to Cardio ER... stayed there for a day and got prescribed medicines for hypertension..
almost a week back I tried orange bit, just to found out it will overdose you... it is better if you reduce on the number of beads in the capsule and take the capsule...
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#10
Posted 13 August 2012 - 09:26 PM
#11
Posted 14 August 2012 - 03:24 PM
I think my biggest symptom right now is nausea and lightheadedness.
It's when I turn my head that it hits me the most.
I am continuing on 30 mg Cymbalta (down from 60 mg) and 40 mg prozac until at least my next appt (and last appt because she is
leaving) with my psych. doc.
I wonder if I will ever get off this sh#()
#12
Posted 14 August 2012 - 11:58 PM
Days 5-6:
I think my biggest symptom right now is nausea and lightheadedness.
It's when I turn my head that it hits me the most.
I am continuing on 30 mg Cymbalta (down from 60 mg) and 40 mg prozac until at least my next appt (and last appt because she is
leaving) with my psych. doc.
I wonder if I will ever get off this sh#()
No electric shock feelings or "brain zaps" I hope? This is one of the more difficult things for me when I decrease dosage....You sound like you are doing well!!
#14
Posted 15 August 2012 - 06:55 PM
autimom, that's exactly what I have "swimmy headed", it's driving me crazy, can't turn my head, or move my eyeballs. I think it's starting to make me nausous. I"m on day 6 of NO cymbalta. Are you still holding at 30? I wish someone could tell me how long this would last.Day 7:
Still "swimmy" headed... It's really bad when I turn my head.
I also feel like someone is squeezing my head.
Went to exercise today, which helped.
Keep going, you can do this.
#15
Posted 17 August 2012 - 06:11 PM
Some crying spells... but I'm close to my monthly anyways (and I cry alot during that time), so I don't know if it
is the withdraw or PMS that is causing it.
Lots of nausea.....
Nothing else to report right now.... Except I think I'm gaining more weight
#16
Posted 18 August 2012 - 07:23 AM
I feel like this morning may be the worst morning of all days so far...
This symptom is probably MORE scary then all the other combined.
The one I woke up with is DREAD!!!
This horrible feeling.
I looked it up in the dictionary: to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of
Feeling the dread when i wake up, I feel a sense of apprehension/fear from life itself.
I call the most scary because this feeling (which I had all the other times I tried to stop) tends to sway me from my every day "stuff".
It gives me a feeling of (why) am I living?
No, I'm not suicical whatsoever... BUT it is SUCH a POWERFUL and SCARY FEELING!!!
Anyone else felt this?
#18
Posted 24 August 2012 - 05:19 PM
Days 11-13:
Some instances of rage brewing. I'm trying to control that
Nausea definately there.
I'm soon to go down a little more on the Cymbalta...
Scared!!!!
Days 14-17:
Some irritability. Lots of nausea
Counted 20 beads out of my 30 mg capsule and doing that until I see the psych doc next week
#19
Posted 28 August 2012 - 03:58 PM
Started counting beads on day 18
Took 20 beads out of a 30 mg capsule
First day was extremely hard - crying spells, irritability, rage, dizziness, nausea
Had to take a phenergan (12.5 mg)
Days 19 - 22 the only symptoms I have had was EXTREME nausea..
Seeing my psych doc (the one who is quitting) in 2 days to see what is next.
#20
Posted 05 September 2012 - 09:21 AM
Saw the psych doc... She is the one who is "leaving" the practice.. but come to find out she is going out on her own... thank goodness
She prescribed me the 20 mg dosage which I will be starting this Friday.
I try to go down on the weekends because it seems as though the roughest part of going down is the first 2-3 days.
I don't want to be working and get sudden rage, irritability, crying boughts, nausea, etc...
Those (above) are the typical symptoms I have when I go down in dosage.
As of this week I take appox 25 beads out of a 30 mg capsule.
It is so sad that we have to go through this just to stop a medication....
I'd like to see if any of Elly Lilly's family members take this SH*()#
#22
Posted 16 September 2012 - 05:45 PM
Still taking the prozac - 40 mg
opening 20 mg cymbaltas for the beads now.
I counted (but I might have missed some) 175 beads in a 20 mg capsule.
I'm down to 100 beads.... Around 14 mg
I'm having a pretty hard time..... I feel like I'm in space.. Foggy headed, jittery, irritable
I'm researching some inpatient facilities, that is if my insurance will cover it...
I hope all are doing well....
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