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[4kidsandthatsall]

I just accused my husband of having an affair on me! What the hell is wrong with me?

[Houdi]

Do you really think he did? If so, you may be being honest?

Try to calm down a little and breath. You may have a good reason to be upset, but upset isn't going to make you feel much better right now. Be easy on yourself.

Bless you.....Houdi

[4kidsandthatsall]

I don't think he really is. I just am completely paranoid! I am freaking out about everything!!! 2 weeks today since I've had the devil drug! I'm fat and unhappy!!!

[Houdi]

4kidsandthatsall:

Awww. I'm upset 'cuz you are. I'm sending you a HUGE hug!

Try some breathing exercises. How about this. Lay on a couch, bed or floor and close your eyes. Now picture the ocean...the waves...and the circle they create. Crashing to shore then rolling out to the sea. Try breathing deeply in that circle. Breathing out is like the waves crashing to the shore, and breathing in is like the water rolling out to the sea. Breath deeply from your diaphragm. Do it in rhythm, rolling and even. Equal time in, equal time out. Think of nothing but the breathing. If anything other than breathing breaks into you mind, chase it away and focus on the breathing. Do this many times a day. It's an old yoga quiet process and it works.

Bless you....Houdi

[IamAwesome]

4kidsandthatsall,

I have experienced some "hallucinations" during the nite time and I wake up thinking I experienced something and then realize the vivid dreams were of my parents who are no longer with us.

I have learned that I have to breath before talking. Sometimes my mouth engages before my mind has fully processed what I just said and I find that I say something without being asked or something that I should have kept quiet about.

I take a deep cleansing breaths that release the anxiety that is built up inside. That anxiety is caused by Cortisol and is flushed by the body with deep cleansing breathes. Breathing causes the body to stop what it is doing and to break the basic chemical interactions that it is working on. Have you ever tried to think about something while your focused on breathing? You can't .. it just isn't possible.

Apologize and talk to your husband bout how you came to this conclusion and see what happens. Cymbalta withdrawals can make you do some things that are not really you.

[nursedeborah]

I am so different that the part that really scares me is that I haven't had side effect one since I quit taking it. Except for one major panic attack and one minor panic attack. I can't figure out if they were facilitated by the fact that I quit cymbalta over after almost two years of taking 120 mg or the fact that I was actually sleeping and dreaming very, very vivi horrible nightmares. That drug almost killed me. I know it caused me to see about every specialist in the whole alphabet soup. I even drove over 400 miles to see a post-polio specialist because every doctor I saw blamed my symptoms on that. She said I didn't have it and to see an endo. Took my eight weeks to get an appointment and she was looking over my list of drugs and happened to ask me if I knew cymbalta cause weight gain? I told her I would quit immediately and she told me I had to taper off. I took 60 mg for a week and then quit. Words cannot describe how much better I felt from day one. I had all the withdrawl symptoms that most people have on it. The brain zaps, the muscle twitching, the edema (I lost 50 pounds in one weekend on Lasix), the potassium deficiencies, the neuropathy. The brain fog, the muscle jerks, the vertigo and dizziness, the relentless pain and the real show stopper, the inability to walk! I feel like I just crawled out of a 90 year old woman suit. I really don't want to go back there again, even when I am 90, if I make it that far.

I had a concussion on April 8, 2008. It was a bad one. I was dizzy and had some pain from it. My doctor put me on cymbalta and like any devil drug, it made me feel so much better. This was at 60 mg and after a couple of weeks, I went on 120 mg. No matter what, I took that drug. I had pain, the level of which I never want to experience again. I wasn't a happy camper because I couldn't do anything and my life was a disaster.


COWBOYMOM,
I ONLY WANT TO SAY I JUST READ YOUR STORY, AND BET YOU $1,000,000,000.00 IT'S PROBALLY ALL DUE TO THE CYMBALTA.
I CAN'T GO INTO MY STORY RIGHT NOW, BUT IT SO SOUNDS LIKE MINE AFTER iI GOT PUT ON THIS STUPID DRUG. IT RUINED
MY LIFE, I NOW HAVE CENTRAL APNEA, WELL IT'S A LONG STORY, SO I WILL GET BACK TO YOU.

JUST KNOW YOU ARE NOT ALONE, YOU WILL GET ON THE OTHER SIDE OF ALL OF THIS EVEN IF IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE IT RIGHT NOW.

TALK TO YOU TOMORROW.

DEBBIE
I have been off of cymbalta completely for 12 days now and I feel better and walk better everyday. It is going to take awhile for me to get back in shape and to walk like I did before I started it but I will get there.

The only thing I haven't been able to find out is how long I need to go before I know that I am in the clear for withdrawls??? The only withdrawls I can attribute to the cymbalta is the two panic attacks. We keep no booze in our house and no drugs like Xanax, bennies, because my dear hubby is a recovering alcoholic and it makes life simpler not to have anything around. I wish I had one morning. I woke up at 5:30 a.m. in a full fledged panic attack. I thought I was losing it. We didn't have a thing in our house besides benedryl. I took a couple of those and hubby told me to get in the swim spa. While he was taking the lid off, I kicked off my shoes and went in with my nightgown on. I stayed in there for two hours while I calmed down and the benedryl started to take affect. I was actually afraid that I was going to have a seizure before I could get myself calmed down. Yesterday was not so bad and today there was nothiing.

How long does it take cymbalta out of your system completely??? I know it is leaving because I just feel so good. I am kind of afraid of having some seizure out of the blue and no one can tell me anything. The symptoms I had I know most people have on withdrawl. I wish. It would have given me a whole year of my life that was taken from me besides the physical pain I went through and the emotional pain my family and I went through. I thought I was done. I couldn't figure out how I got so old so fast. I am only 53 but I felt like I was 93! I had to use a scooter to get around when I walked more than ten feet. I spent more time in bed because the pain was horrible. To show how bad the pain had become, I was put on methadone and it didn't touch it. Right now I am happy to say that I am pain free. I still get sore when I overdo because I am fatter than I have ever been in my life and my muscles have no stamina. But that is a small price to pay for getting my LIFE BACK!

I have never sued anyone in my life, yet. I would sure jump on boar a class action suit against Lilly. I made it through my son's senior year of high school on just plain old guts and some help from some really good friends.

I have one test yet to take and that is the cortisol test. I have been under a huge amount of stress the last six years. I know everyone thinks they are stressed out but I had my mother, only brother and only uncle drop dead two years apart. My blood tests came back that I had no cortisol in my system so my endo wants to take one more test. If my adrenal gland is not working, I will not take cortison which I have taken before.