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[nursedeborah]

Hi you Guys,
I can't do this. I am getting no where, and feel like I am just stuck where I started. I am just miserable.

I know it's not even been a month since I started to decrease myself off this crap, but I just can't seem to
function again just like when I was on it at the full 60 mg I started at. I am back doing my life the same.
I just feel so stuck, and that it will never ever get better for me. I am trying so hard but it is just too much
for me. I can't think of spending another few months of this crap, and having to live this way, and each time
I decrese I have to go through hell because of it.

What I was thinking of doing was going on Prozac, and decreasing the Cymbalta faster. I have read that it is
the one that helps the most with withdrawl symptoms. Plus I need some energy as I just have no motivation
still to even wash my hair again. I can't live like this.


I am hating my life so much.

Debbie

[luv2lope]

Oh Debbie! That is so sad! I cant tell you what to do but I can sure sympathize! I dont want to be on this stuff either. But I also dont want to feel like crap or be unmotivated! The first half of my life was not real fun. I want this last part of my life to be bone marrow enjoyable. Do I have to stay on this stuff the rest of my life? Its too expensive for one thing!
You have tried so hard I hate to see you quit but dont torture yourself either!
stay in touch!
nancy
the one who loves to lope!

[nursedeborah]

Nancy,
I am not giving up but allowingmyself some extra help during getting off this shit.
I sa my doc today, and he thinks that I am having a harder time due to having
Chronic Pain Syndrome, I don't agree with him I know what the withdrawls are
like, but I also have a severe case of PTSD, and it's just not making that very
easy for me as that in itself is very hard to deal with.

I am just going to go down a little bit faster, and start to increase the Procaz as I do.
I just have read that id does help very much with the withdrawls, so until I can drop down from this
40 mg I am on, and be off it 100%, I am just going to be a little more gentle, and loving to myself
for the first times in , well since I have been on this crap.

Debbie

[Junior]

Debbie

You have what it takes. You have determination and you have resolve. Lesser people wouldn't have got to where you are now. You can do this!!

I don't have PTSD but I DO have GAD and I have had a few episodes of depression, so I have some sense of how hard it must be for you. Keep believing that it will get better. Studies have now demonstrated that positive thinking can actually change our brain chemicals, so keep up the good work. Be gentle / kind to yourself and keep believing that this horrible time WILL end. You can do it. I have faith in you :)

[nursedeborah]

Junior,
Thanks so much for your kind words. I keep hearing that message from people over the past few days, so
I am guessing it is coming from my Higher Power, well God. I do have such negative thinking, oh boy do I ever,
and this drug has done such a number on me too, as has the other crap.

I won't give up, I can't I wouldn't know what to do if I did!!

Thanks for all your great input, and support.

Love,
Debbie