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[chimera]

I can say that I am about 90% free of a lot of the withdrawal symptoms. I do have tinnitus and I get the odd brain zap here and there. Sometimes I feel as though something crawls up my arms. I am back to running my business 100% and my brain fog is nearly non existent. I can almost multi task again. I have odd day when I feel scared and afraid to face the world - but for the most part I feel great. I want you all to know that you too will feel the healing actually happening - each day will be improved. BELIEVE ME I too was where you all are - wanting to die, anxiety, agoraphobia, nausea, diarrhea, brain zaps, brain fog, crying and screaming bouts. I wanted to DIE! I would curl up in a ball in my bed all day without getting up for 14 hours. My husband would come home at night and find me exactly where he had left me in the the morning. It was bad - I did not know who I had become. I was scared and felt so numb. I never knew that feeling numb would hurt so much. There is a physical pain I had and I cannot describe it - but I WILL NEVER FORGET IT. It was like something inside was dying a slow death. I had gone to see a few therapists and NOT ONE accepted that i WAS EXPERIENCING WITHDRAWALS! One doctor in Beverly Hills in fact recommended ECT [Electroconvulsive Therapy] I broke down and cried - and he did not give a crap. I emailed him on Friday and told him I was not depressed and that I hope he learns to listen to his patients and perhaps accept that he doesn't know everything and that he should do some research before recommending ECT on a healthy individual. 

Today I ran my business on my own, I interact with clients, I am on fire!! I am running again and I am smiling and I AM NOT AFRAID, I DO NOT WANT TO DIE. I AM 100% MEDICATION FREE! NO MEDS FOR ME! I used basic nutrition to help me - no fancy diets.

You will also heal - it took me 12 months to finally start to feel normal and I am now 14 months from the last day I took that poison. I still have a bottle of Cymbalta in my nightstand drawer - it is sealed/unopened and serves as a reminder of my journey. A journey I vow never ever to forget.

well done Tomitsu,oh my god at the ECT. this is horrifying. I am glad you emailed him, I do hope that he listens up and never ever suggests this to a healthy person ever again.

[fishinghat]

Tomitsu, thank you so much for your post. I went through a sort of 'standard' cymbalta withdrawal in March but by the end of the month I was left with 24/7 fear and crying. After 2 1/2 months of dealing with it non stop I finally had to go on some antianxiety meds and lexapro. Lexapro is a lighter hitting version of ssri than cymbalta. The Dr. said once I have been stable 30 days I will begin slowly easing me  off the anxiety meds first and then the lexapro if possible. I don't know how you dealt with that for so long. You are a better person than I. 

[scrapbookqueen41]

I can say that I am about 90% free of a lot of the withdrawal symptoms. I do have tinnitus and I get the odd brain zap here and there. Sometimes I feel as though something crawls up my arms. I am back to running my business 100% and my brain fog is nearly non existent. I can almost multi task again. I have odd day when I feel scared and afraid to face the world - but for the most part I feel great. I want you all to know that you too will feel the healing actually happening - each day will be improved. BELIEVE ME I too was where you all are - wanting to die, anxiety, agoraphobia, nausea, diarrhea, brain zaps, brain fog, crying and screaming bouts. I wanted to DIE! I would curl up in a ball in my bed all day without getting up for 14 hours. My husband would come home at night and find me exactly where he had left me in the the morning. It was bad - I did not know who I had become. I was scared and felt so numb. I never knew that feeling numb would hurt so much. There is a physical pain I had and I cannot describe it - but I WILL NEVER FORGET IT. It was like something inside was dying a slow death. I had gone to see a few therapists and NOT ONE accepted that i WAS EXPERIENCING WITHDRAWALS! One doctor in Beverly Hills in fact recommended ECT [Electroconvulsive Therapy] I broke down and cried - and he did not give a crap. I emailed him on Friday and told him I was not depressed and that I hope he learns to listen to his patients and perhaps accept that he doesn't know everything and that he should do some research before recommending ECT on a healthy individual. 

Today I ran my business on my own, I interact with clients, I am on fire!! I am running again and I am smiling and I AM NOT AFRAID, I DO NOT WANT TO DIE. I AM 100% MEDICATION FREE! NO MEDS FOR ME! I used basic nutrition to help me - no fancy diets.

You will also heal - it took me 12 months to finally start to feel normal and I am now 14 months from the last day I took that poison. I still have a bottle of Cymbalta in my nightstand drawer - it is sealed/unopened and serves as a reminder of my journey. A journey I vow never ever to forget.

Thank you so much for sharing. As I sit here once again at my desk and cannot function I am givine hope by your workds. I have been brought down from this terrible drug. The die effects of taking this med made me non functioning and now the withdrawls are. Thank you for sharing that there is a light at the end of the tunnel