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[kario]

I had a rather successful three years or so on Cymbalta for severe depression. The side effects the first week I started were frightening, but after I got used to it, the only thing that bothered me was severe cottonmouth and missing a dose now and then. Every time I missed a dose, within four hours of the missed one, my fingertips would tingle and I got this spacy/dreamy feeling of unreality.

I started weaning off of the meds (60 mg qday) about six months ago with my doctor's help. I went from 60 to 40mg without incident (at least I think so - I was stricken with a nasty virus that week and spent most of it sleeping so there's a chance I did have symptoms but just didn't notice them). I stayed on 40mg for a month and then tapered off to 20mg about two months ago. I had thought I'd stay on 20mg for a while longer but I accidentally missed a dose about four days ago and decided to just stop taking it. Since then I have had a lot of dizziness and tingling in my fingers. The cottonmouth sx have completely disappeared (yippee!) and while I'm not feeling any sadness or excessive drowsiness, the dizziness and feelings of unreality really bother me. I hope they will dissipate soon and I'm going to call my naturopath to see if there are any natural remedies I can take besides GABA that will help me through this time.