I am on a low dose of cymbalta (have been trying to lower it).
I am already in a very severe protracted withdrawal (emotional numbness, anhedonia, depression, agitation, zero pleasure, can’t think, concentrate, etc). It’s a nightmare.
I am currently having some sort of horrible reaction (which I have had before when I lower the dose)
It feels like some type of excitatory activity-- something that’s flooding me and totally incapacitating me, centered in my chest and brain.
Is is glutamate? acetylcholine? histamine? Cortisol? Too much serotonin?
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Can’t think, feels like brain is inflamed and all thoughts are being edged out.
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Horrible feeling in chest like it’s going to burst.
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I feel stiff internally, not muscles but more internally.
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No tiredness, no appetite.
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Feels like any ability to feel pleasureable feelings are 100% gone.
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Agitated/flighty chest feeling but frozen
I end up lying down and being still to try to relax, so it might look like I am laying around/sleepy/ but really I am frozen in some sort of activation state where my brain is being fried.
It’s not a mind racing thing... it is a very physical activation / intense discomfort. Feels like everything is being burned out of me.
What the hell is this? What can I do?
Someone please help.
I am wanting to get off cymbalta, and am on <10mg.
I am also taking Zoloft (trying to bridge off, but I have had this reaction before in the past with no Zoloft). I’m not against meds I just want to feel better. I can’t survive like this.