I think I titled one of my recent topics wrong, and didn't really ask the questions I wanted to, and it was misleading. Sorry for any redundancy in making anther post about this, but I wanted to rephrase and get at the questions I really meant to ask.
Like many people, I had loads of anxiety after withdrawal from Cymbalta, and then the doc raised my dose to try to stabilize me. When I got to 90mgs, a whole new crop of symptoms came up, which at the time, was attributed to the dose being too high. These were physical symptoms only. A doc in the hospital, though, said they were technically signs of anxiety, or to put it another way, signs of a brain that's telling the body to be on high alert at all times.
I'm not experiencing any emotional anxiety. Just physical manifestations of it (insomnia, high heart rate, muscle spasms, myoclonic jerks, etc.) I am concerned as I wonder if the earlier anxiety from withdrawal has morphed into this current form.
My real question here is if this rings any bells as to anyone else in this forum who had anything similar happen. Bascially, having a doctor increase your Cymbalta dose to try to stabilize you, but it ends up giving you different symptoms of your brain/nervous system being way too riled up. In other words, stabilization attempts not working, and higher doses of Cymbalta just making everything way worse.
My biggest fear here is I don't want this to last forever. Though I've come down quite a ways in dose by now, I'm still left with the specific physical symptoms the high dose brought on I'm on meds for this, and they're helping, but I don't want to be on them forever, either. This whole mess can't have broken my nervous system, can it have? Left it irreparably in the state it's in? The thing that is concerning me is I don't know of anyone who's gone through exactly what I have (with having withdrawals first, then a high dose of Cym. which led to worse symptoms which hung on despite me weaning). I don't have success stories to encourage me here, because my situation is different than the other ones I've read about.
Any thoughts about this are appreciated, thanks.