Trying to quit Cymbalta...it sucks!

*THIS*

I'm familiar with seratonin syndrome. So is my internist, she suggested the HTP-5 to offset the seratonin I'm losing from lowering my dose by 66%. I DO have doctors and I actually go to them.

I guess you don't know how to read so I'm not going to repeat myself. RTFP.

And I never said "I wonder why it makes me feel this way". I know exactly why it makes me feel this way. Some people just thrive on being an asshole.

Fuck you asshole...you have no idea what kind of pain people live with on a daily basis. i will try anything that would allow me to have a better quality of life. To go from a healthy, active 30something to a guy who lives with constant pain would make you change your mind about what you are willing to try

It is obvious why you need it. You are fucked up. You take it you live with the consequences.

You started because you have no tolerance and no patience. I get that. How are you with circular logic?

Good quality ganja is THE BEST medicine!

I take xanax and ambien at night too. Sometimes it works most times it dont.

But, xanax does work when youre weening yourself off other meds.

So true, The Dude Jeff.

So what -- you do not understand chronic pain. Hope you have it someday to see what id is like. Medication makes me feel somewhat better and can live life but still not like I want.

Miss O -- Let me ask you since you obviusly have are vindictive towards me, and I just found out you are Trin's girlfriend, why do you Or is that Ms. Banan and you have a little cucumber in your hand? It sure is small Or manybe you use a strap-on. Didn't think Trinity would be into taking it up the pooper with a strap-on. Oh, BTW why aren't you two married yet?

Last Edited by Squonk-old on 12/29/2011 09:57 PM

vaporize some weed to sleep

have a giggle and watch a movie

benzos and ambien are terribly addictive and you're setting yourself up for a lifetime of dependancy !!

They list all of the side effects on their television ads yet you idiots take it anyway.......So don't come crying to me about your suffering because it is falling on deaf ears!!!!!!!!!!!!

the best way to quit any drug is to detox....

and the best detox is a steam room....

you need to take lots of vitamin c and mineral water before and after each session....

20 minutes everyday for about two weeks will get you to first base.....

it's all downhill from there....

no jonesing either....

eat lots of green veggies also...

take care...

Start SUN GAZING then you won't need the anti-depressants no more.

This is smart, i just mentioned it because not all
Readers are smart enough and they just use
what ever they get!

@ others,

Weed is nice but for People with this Symptoms
THC can worsen the Situation a lot,
in the last 10 Years we saw a 300% increase
of psychotic Disorders,
mostly because of the "Spice-like Stuff"!

Stay away from this Stuff (the Chemical THC)

Sounds like a lot of GLP'er are mentally ill. Go figure...

They are not "ill",
they are just dis-regulated
and many of the dis-regulated People
never learned how to handle with
the so called "Reality"!

Hope you never have the pain and problems sleeping that I'v had. Walk a mile in my shoes friend. How old are you? You may see thatmany unexpected things health wise can come bite you in the ass once you age some. A year and a half ago, at 49, I'd match myself athletically against most 30 year olds.

And even though I can not exercise-- I'm still on top of my game at work, so it's not like my mind is lost.

BTW -- just had 5 epicudural steriod injections from mid lumbar down to the si joint today from a pain management specialist. Am feeling pretty decent now. Seems like this set of injections may work. We'll see. If not, then I gotta go back and they go in and fry the nerve roots causing problems to stop the signal to the brain.

Like I said Atom "boy", walk a mile in my shoes, before you criticize.

OP, hang in there! Like someone else said on Page 1 of this thread, you need to wean off a bit slower. Try take at least a couple weeks at each level.

Sending you love, light and calmness!

When you feel this coming on just stop for a moment of quiet and offer it up to God. Speak from your heart and ask him to bring you peace.

OP, ignore the naysayers on this thread. You are definitely doing the right thing. We gotta do what we gotta do to get through the day. One thing I forgot to mention in my above reply is that, you need to have a non-medication 'backup'. There's a reason you went on the meds in the first place - and that reason still exists, because meds (and booze, pills, etc) just mask the real problem, which is an avoidance of whatever it is you need to face. I know how difficult this can be.

So, do you have a backup plan for those really rough days? Some natural drug-free things I've found to work really well are: an hour-long bath; hard exercise - push your way through the pain and you'll feel amazing!; a long walk; stand up against the trunk of a tree, it is very calming; sit in front of a fire for at least an hour. (Three hours in front of the fire is amazing! If you have time, that is).

Be careful taking too many b vitamins. They can make you jittery and if taken too late in the day can cause sleep problems. Ask me how I know.LOL

OP,why in the fuck are you taking an antidepressant to stop the pain?Wouldn't it make the slightest bit of common sense to take a PAIN PILL instead??????????

more than likely because a "doctor" told him to

You are unique. Someone someday may come along and look like you, but they will never have the qualities that you have. That potentially makes you a rare treasure.

We forget that we are rare treasures. The look to the world to tell us that we are. We look for love, friendship, affection, and romance, and those qualities that come from other people remind us that we are rare treasures.

We also forget that they are waiting for us to do the same for them. The more that you send out those positive feelings and actions, the more people will recognize it or resend it out to you. It may be that you need to relocate yourself to other like minded people, a scary thought since most of us hate change more, and this creates the principle of inertia.

I encourage you to risk loving the ones around you. Praise them for no reason. Be friends with as many people, but in sincere ways. Be affectionate in every way possible. Be romantic when your companion deserves it or not.

If you do this for 28 days, it will become a habit. People will notice. They may actually overcome their own fear of change and inertia and return your sincere affection.

All of us do damaging things to ourselves and others. That tends to happen because we aren't getting friendship, affection, love, and romance. It takes a long time for a wound to heal, and if a wound is picked on, then the scab falls off, and eventual scarring, and sometimes only a miracle can heal such wounds.

Work with your medical team and your family support system. Depression and anxiety can have a biological basis, but some people by working in community with others can overcome those conditions and have a life without anti-depressants.

They were never meant to be long term and they have side effects since they are artificially doing things to our bodies. The surprising thing is that when you urinate, the excess that isn't absorbed is polluting the water supply. Seriously:
[link to ag.arizona.edu]

There are many such articles. Those medicines are consumed by the community. There are even politicians who suggest adding Lithium to control the mood of their constituents.

You have more power than you know. You have power and you possess the rarest of treasures. You have power to send out affection and receive it.

You can do this. I believe in you.

Amen...I agree.

I just don't understand why people can't experience their emotions regularly. If I am happy...I laugh. If I am sad...I cry. If I am angry...I scream. All normal emotions. I just experience my true feelings. Why do people think they have to mask the feeling. I have seen people on anti-depressants and they are like emotionless robots. What a shame. We are creatures with emotions....why not accept that.

What happens to all of those people if the SHTF and they can NOT get their drugs.....oh my ...run from those people FAST.
They will all go NUTS. That is the "plan".

STAY AWAY FROM ANTI-DEPRESSANTS. THEY ARE EVIL!!!!!!!!

I was stupid enough to listen to my "good" family doctor, thats why I started taking it. Went in never feeling well, and load a various symptoms. Doc say diagnosis is depression, I say no things are good except I don't feel good, I'm not depressed. Intimidating Doctor Phillip Isbell's (Denton Family Practice Assoc. in Denton, TX) exact words.. "well I've been a doctor for x number of years and I know someone who is depressed whan I see them". Stupid ass me, thought right I'm a dumb patient, he is a smart doctor that's why I came to him, so I'll do what he say's. Oh to be able to go back and change things!

Year plus later, feeling the same way I go back in, similar yet more severe symptoms. His blood work shows thyroid is bit sluggish, then just dismisses my symptoms and I'm told we'll just do blood work in few more months and see what it looks like... What nothing to help me feel better.

I guess I'm glad he didn't prescribe anything else though cause that same day a made an appt with new doctor. This doc did more blood work, said yes you need to be on thyroid med, and you are vitamin d defficent (Old doc NEVER has check my vitamin levels.)

Now on 50000 Vit D 2x's week, and synthroid. Plus new doc gave me smaller cymbalta doses for me to beging quitting cymbalta.

Have finished the smaller dose and am now on day four of being cymbalta free.....Blah, I feel most aweful!
(just googled has anyone ever died from quitting cymbalta, cause I feel I could)

Now on I will deeply research anything RX or OTC before taking it even if a "doctor" desides I need it.

Taper these things very slowly. Getting off 300mg of Effexor without major issues can take over a year of tapering. People often jump off of these things and end up right back on them when withdrawal symptoms are mistaken for "underlying illness".

Glad to see you starting to see.

All the 'pharmaceutical' concoctions are poisons of one sort or another. This kind of therapy is called 'allopathic', which means 'poison fights poison'.

There are other therapies. They are under direct threat by the allopathic interests.

'Poison kills poison' works fine when you've been bitten by a snake or spider - something similar. It works well in some other cases too, but for chronic conditions it's just the dog chasing its tail.

This poison causes a side effect and the only answer the allopaths have is more poison to fight that poison. On and on.

Don't jump on the roundabout in the first place.