I truly believe Cymbalta is one of the most evil medicines (poisons?) ever produced. The side effects are absolute hell and made me think I was literally going insane. I felt a horrible brain fog, it caused chronic muscle pain, and I was losing my ability to speak or form simple sentences. Taking Cymbalta basically feels like having brain damage. It can also destroy your liver if taken too long. Doctors know it is bad, but they prescribe it because they are in the pockets of the drug companies, one of those being the company that produces Cymbalta. The withdrawal is unbelievably horrible. For me it consists of feeling like I have the flu, whole body aches, vomiting, shaking, feeling so agitated that I want to stab somebody for coughing. Just complete insane thinking. I don’t know how long the withdrawal lasts, because the longest I have made it is 3 weeks. I have been trying to get off of this shit for 3 years now. It’s the only med that even doing a slow taper in increments of 5mg the withdrawal is still bad. Goddamn this medicine. I am trying once again to get off of Cymbalta because I want to know what it feels like to not feel like i’m wasted 24/7. I’ve decided to go from 20-5-0 mg to try to get it over with as quickly as possible. Wish me luck.
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remember to cleanse your body
I cant remember where, but i read a post on some forum, some other guy struggling hard to get of that shit
then doing a cleanse or something at the same time while going off, helped immense and “only” suffered the bad withdrawals for 3 weeks i think it was (tho I’m worried that I remember wrong and it was 3 months)
but he did finally manage to get off it though
oceans of fluids
I wish you the best of luck and hope you manage to get off it
how that shit is still legal is beyond me
Thanks 🙂 I appreciate the advice, yeah coming off of Cymbalta sucks big time. I’m actually trying get off of all of my meds right now to reset my brain back to pre med state to see what i’m working with. Mainly because I have literally forgotten what is caused by side effects and what is my brain at this point. I don’t think it’s normal for me to feel like i’m constantly confused, dizzy and in a daze, but i’ll have to see when i’m med free. I’ve realized that the best bet for me is do a really fast taper and feel like hell for a shorter period of time. In the past i’ve tried the long slow tapers and the misery is less, but last so long, it’s like slowly sinking into hell. Each day is a little worse, until I am forced to raise the med again and start over.
By fast taper I mean going from 3 meds to 0 meds in 5 days, so borderline cold turkey.
Fluids galore and oatmeal, + bananas/sportsdrinks for electrolytes
is not gonna be fun, but you might just find it be well worth if, again best wishes man and best of luck