Although my first couple of months on Cymbalta were very "hyper", I soon slowed down to a stop and spent the next few months mostly in bed. My GP couldn't understand why I would want to come off, but agreed to swap me over to Prozac (I knew this suited me better as I have been on it before - I only went on Cymbalta this time in the hope that it would also ease the pain).
She told me to wean off over 2 weeks! I looked it up and realised this would be hell, so put myself to the task of breaking open both the Cymbalta and Prozac capules and repackaging them together - reducing the Cymbalta and adding the Prozac bit by bit, over around 2 months.
It worked a dream! I had been reading that pharmacys would do this for me, but none that I talked to said they would, as it was not necessary!
I felt marvellous for a few months, and then went down again after a uterine polyp removal (strange how I felt at my best when suffering post menopausal bleeds from the polyp - weird), so decided to come off my 20mg dose of Amitripyline - after 11 years on it - so see if this was slowing down my recovery. I think it is clearing out of my system now, but that withdrawal from that small dose over the last couple of months was far worse than the change over before from Cymbalta to Prozac.