Duloxetine - Cymbalta Withdrawal - Severe Symptoms and Tips
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- čas přidán 15. 09. 2022
- Duloxetine Cymbalta withdrawal has been abolutely horrific and devastating for my life, family, work and everything else for that matter. I felt it was important for me to get this out there because there isn't too much representation for severe cases on here for people in protracted withdrawal syndrome. I also discuss some things that have really helped me in Cymbalta withdrawal and managing the worst symptoms. Leave your comments down below and I'd be happy to answer any questions. Thanks for listening guys and I hope to do some updates soon on my Cymbalta withdrawal experience.
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I feel your pain.. I went through cymbalta withdrawal 5 years ago and am currently going through benzo withdrawal torture. I don't wish this on anyone.
Me too just in opposite order.
Thank you for this video! I needed this so bad today! I keep trying to go down a bead at a time, then a couple days later I'm having life threatening thoughts constantly and seclude myself from everyone to the point i really don't talk to anyone anyone except generic small talk at best. I have seriously thought this will never end and i can't keep feeling this anymore, but This video made me not feel so alone, and I'm feeling more determined as a result. I seriously appreciate you posting this because it was exactly what I needed right now. Thank you so much and I hope your are feeling much better!
Thank you for this video. Have been crying my eyes out while listening. I've been having a horrible time with it and have spent the last 48 hours erring about whether or not to go to the ER. I've been experience severely disordered sleep and insomnia, nausea that has been debilitating and come out of the flu and my appetite is all over the place, I barely eat and then eat a bunch at once. I have started, a week and a bit into my withdrawal, having brain zaps, and have been feeling very faint. It's been a nightmare and it hurts go outside as I don't want to see anyone, I can't interact with anyone, and I feel like I'm not really 'here'. I'm so low on energy and fatigued. This video however has been super helpful in hearing your experience and the reminder to see this all as a way to live healthier and take better care of myself.
You have about 10 days to hop back on and taper more slowly. Research a low histamine, low carb and low sugar diet. You might want to even try low histamine carnivore until symptoms get better. Do deep breathing as much as possible to calm your nervous system.
@@Carnivorelion Thanks for your reply and the tips. I am going to look into the low histamine/low carb/low sugar situation (I've done similar in the past and it has helped) I can't do carnivore.. I tried it and it's just not something I can do. But the rest I will. I'm going to try the wim hof method too (my nervous system is shot) Thanks again for replying and the helpful video. I dont want to hop back on it as I want that poison out of my system. This is rough but still better than having that shit in me. xx
I am going through EXACTLY the same things as you. I am so sorry you are going through this. It's the worst thing I have ever felt. I have been trying to get off of the poison since 2022 and have only been able to go 1 bead at a time but I have got to a point where I can't go down anymore, at least for now . I hope you feel better and better as time goes by. And if you need anyone to talk about this(I don't know anyone going through this myself) feel free to reach out. You CAN, and WILL beat this!
My new doctor ripped me off of my Cymbalta and preventing me from getting a refill this is day 7 without it I am an absolute agony no eating barely sleeping and no support from family
I can relate. I'm sorry.
That was the worst drug I’ve ever tried to taper off of. It took me 6 months. I would never start that again.
Count your blessings! Glad you made it to the other side :)
It's took me 5 yr to get of this drug got my last 30mg doing through doc just hope this tieadness goes away
@halimashamim-tk5lj stay strong. It will be like winning the lottery when you're off of this poison.
It was for me too, ended up in the hospital winging off it and Amytriptilin. Then doctor put me on DuLoxetine again, said whatever was going on was not from them. I'm on it for nuropathy pain, now winging off, and I know where this is headed. And I'm severly sick from intravenous antibiotics, and weakened immune system, witch gave me the nuropathy to begin with. Before she had me on 2 for FM and I never had FM, it was pain in back from knots aling the spine to begin with, and having scollioses. 😢
Thanks so much for sharing your experience with us. You have a good mindset & so much courage to get you through this my friend. Sending much love & respect your way!
I’ve been on it before, came off of it. Withdraws were pretty bad but I was okay in a month or two. Decided to take it again years later because I’m at a place where I need some assistance. It’s interesting how this drug is either really miraculous for people or really horrific.
I'd be very careful coming off of this again but glad it's helping you. I'm going to post more about this. Appreciate the subs :)
Blessings & Thanks.. Appreciate the video💪🍖..
Thanks brother
Thanks for sharing this, I've just come off this drug & am having some very strange experiences... I actually found it to be one of the better SSRI (personally speaking)... but I'm shocked at the "brain stabs", bizarre dreams which I wouldn't say where necessary nightmares but very odd & strangely liberating... 🤔🤷🏻♂️ Nausia & feeling generally bad are also a factor... once again, thanks ever so much for sharing your experiance 👍🏻🙏🏻🙂
Histamine dysregulation. Can't wait until I'm med free finally.
I feel your pain im 6 weeks off this poisonous duloxatine. Yep brain fog and zaps, anger, agrophobia, fear and dread, rhinitis infections. Headaches, nausea, itchy skin, suicidal thoughts. Really scary. I meditate but i am so afraid.
Hi, Your video has really helped me, the head pressure is the severe sympton i have suffered, like you im holding, for almost a year, then a 2% drop, not per month, maybe 6 to 8 weeks. So the drops dont all start to back up!! like they did a year ago..
Ya I might do the same as you say. Might be better to do 2% every 2 months than 1% a month. Do you get sinus issues?
@@Carnivorelion Likewise. Last year all my drops backed up, next year, ive learned my body even more. No sinus, but i get mini breakdowns, when over stressed
Tapered off a benzo 10 months ago. Every single day every hour of every day fairly significant head pressure and this weird dizzy pre fainting feeling like I’m just about to black out. Hope it leaves some day
I'm weaning right now... the brain zaps are sooooo bad! Like omg.
If i can make it through precipitated withdrawal for 30 hours straight, 2x, I can get through this withdrawal or anything for that matter, I know it. Lol!! This Cymbalta withdrawal is terrible, doing cold turkey and I'm almost 2 weeks in but I'm unsure if I'm going to stay off it for life. I'm on a new med but i may want to take both of them for the serotonin benefit of Cymbalta. As for right now, every single symptom you say talking about i am going through so this gives me hope that I'm not alone and I'm not going crazy. Thanks ❤
YEP! My dr put me on a pretty high dose of Cymbalta, (i think it was 90mg?) with no slow intro too it and no warnings about it - even after I asked what side effects to watch for.
I got an uneasy quivery body stoned feel - virtually right away.
Brain fog, no focus, anger issues, severe sweating, almost an 'out of body' experience while attempting sleeping, anxiety, depression, suicidal, finding any reason to become enraged with anyone...then I sadly started drinking a LOT during this, ironically the booze made me more tolerable and then the headaches began.
I was getting migraines every other day, I was irritable beyond comprehension, just a complete asshole - and I knew it, but couldn't stop it. (Can't believe my wife didn't leave me - she should have).
I was road raging daily, then almost blacking out of the moment and not remembering clearly why or what caused the rage to begin with.
Here's the BEST part.....I started getting boils and blistering skin rashes all over my body. They would literally pop thru my skin like chicken skin in an air fryer....numerous ones and they were BIG. They just exploded out of every part of me...legs, belly, neck, hands, fingers, face, toes...they would grow and grow until they popped like a blister. Then scar. My doc said it had NOTHING to do with the med.
I went 3X to the hospital to find out WTF was happening to my skin and why. Every time it got dismissed. It was NOT the Cymbalta. It went from insect bites, to oily skin, to a hormonal change causing it etc etc. Every excuse they could think of...but it wasn't the Cymbalta. (eye roll).
So...I stopped the medication cold turkey.....then the flu withdrawal happened after missing the second dose...I was sick, I was weak, I was shaking, brain zaps like my head was about to explode. The eye pressure was unimaginable...this went on for a days. The brain zaps and headaches were severe.....to a point where I asked my wife to call 911...then i stopped her. So she drove me at 2am to Emerg - - they did tests and it showed nothing abnormal. Once I got that news, I thought screw it, I can beat this withdrawal crap...if there is no brain swelling or physical damage happening, then I will tough it out and wait.
It was a horrible horrible experience. I don't recommend people stopping it this way - after i told my dr what I did, he was not impressed or happy for me. (side note: I never had skin blisters before taking the med or since dropping the med)... He did tell me it's similar to a Heroine withdrawal and it should have been slowly weaned off. I took it for 2 years...and I don't recall ANY positives from it. None.
After watching this video, it gave me memories of the past. Today, I take 600mg Gabapentin - helps with my back issues and also helps my anxiety without all the side effects of the Cymbalta. Also, if i miss a couple doses, nothing happens.
Since going animal based diet, I feel numerous things have gotten better - hardly any arthritis issues, back feels better, anxiety is better, no more IBS and I have lost 70lbs of fat in 7months and feel great.
To those doing this medication journey, good luck, stay strong and seek out professional help and try to get off that poison. Try carnivore or animal based diet even! - it did much more for me than that crap. All the best.
❤🙏🏼 animal based here too for my mystery brain toxin issues .
Do you do lymphatic system clearing work? Vagus?
Saying prayers for you now.
@@CalmVibesVee Awesome - good for you!! Animal based is amazing. I don't do the vagus massage regularly - but I will start it again - I always forget about it. Be a great thing to do before bed. Thanks for the reminder :)
@@Crushin123 oh please do vagus nerve work it’s so important 💕
I’m also starting home red light therapy again. I loaned it to a family member for her dog’s back injury.
I definitely feel your pain. I would have the extreme dry mouth and have ulcers all in my mouth. It hurt to eat it hurt to drink I dealt with all the symptoms that you’ve been through the road rage the anger outburst of crying, the dizziness, the insomnia, the nausea the thing that doctors use us as guinea pigs, there’s no law when they say doctors are practicing medicine. Yeah they’re practicing on us
I have done a lot of research on Cymbalta since trying to taper off of it myself, I have watched multiple videos of people who are trying to taper off of it also. This has been one of the hardest things pharmaceutically that I have ever been through medically I’ve already had two mini strokes, diagnosed with epilepsy and small vessel disease since been on Cymbalta it did help me at first, now I was put on this by my rheumatologist for arthritis which I even questioned him why he was putting me on an anti-depressant obviously Cymbalta is not only an anti-depressant as y’all know this originally he started me off on 60 mg which I think was too much I could not do the 60 so I did the 30 mg a few months ago I started taking the 60 mg my symptoms got worse to the point where I had to stop working I even went to my neurologist and had an MRI done and an EEG went to my regular doctor to get blood work done because something wasn’t right I even went to my optometrist who spent more time with me than my actual doctors. He himself deals with fibromyalgia and arthritis and was put on Cymbalta and tell me it was one of the worst medicines he’s ever been on and trying to taper off off. He told me that my rheumatologist should’ve never put me on this medicine and I think it’s the side effects of the medicine. Of course I looked up the side effects. Call my doctor they said stop cold turkey well I’m smart enough to know that you don’t do that for the last several weeks I have been dealing with every symptom or should I say every withdrawal but vomiting. My rheumatologist spoke to me today and says I think you have depression. Do you need to go see your regular doctor this infuriated me I told him depression does not cause all these symptoms, and I do not have depression, it makes me angry that these doctors are so quick to just hand out a pill and then when you go through symptoms, want to give you another pill to top the other symptoms he also told me that my symptoms should only last a few days from what I’m reading and seeing that it’s not the case I’m thankful that I’m finding other people that have gone through this lets me know that I’m not crazy
Sadly I think Drs become Drs for money and just the easy stuff. They really do not care about us anymore.
Went for first time to a Rheumatologist and he wants to switch me from my Lexapro to Cymbalta. I should have told him right then that if it is not going to help the source of my pain, I do not want to take a new SSRI or whatever Cymbalta is.
OMG. I was on cymbalta for a year and I don't think the dose was too high but now I'm worried about the long term affects. How do you know if the symptoms are Cymbalta withdrawals or just regular ill mental issues? if they are Cymbalta withdrawals then how long do most peop,e have those symptoms for?
I have gotten off Cymbalta TWICE. Piece of cake.
Lol k then why are you watching videos about it? Consider yourself lucky and move on.
He mate. I had been on Cymbalta 60mg for 15 years until March 2020. I had breakthrough anxiety and my doc CTed me off Cymbalta. It became so bad with the withdrawal and akathisia that I got sedated with 4 zolpidem 10mg and 70mg oxazepam a day. I kept getting worse. My doc swapped my benzos to valium after 6 months, a direct switch. This was another horrifying experience and I dont know how im still alive. I had severe akathisia, left eye blindness and 50 others symptoms for 2 years. A lot of them gave up. I was place on Lexapro 10mg by 2022 but it never helped so i had to taper that as well. I am now completely off everything since 8weeks and I am in daily hell, and I mean hell. My agoraphobia is so bad I cannot go anywhere and I am severely ill.
Just wanted to say that I am proud of you for handling with it. Cymbalta is by FAR the most potent and hardest drug to quit, I get your struggles. Do not give up.
Ya man cymbalta and benzos. Be proud of yourself for getting off those poisons. Your body will rebound. Really do you research on mcas, histamine and d lactate because if you know what's causing your symptoms then maybe you can get to the root of the problem.
Oh my goodness man. I'm sorry to hear that. Duloxetine is poison!!! I'm WDin from it now! Brain zaps are soooo bad!!
You mention skin issues. Did you experience a terrible itching like i did?
I heard Cymbalta has the worst withdrawals.
I can't say SNRI's have the worst withdrawals but they are known to be up there. Benzos can be more severe in certain ways but it depends on so many things. But yes, Cymbalta withdrawal has been insanely hard.
I’m on 60 mg I’d love to get off maybe switching to another med might make it easier as you can cut them into smaller pieces? I mean 65mg has 234 pellets in it , I’m thinking of putting the pellets into empty capsules and reduce it that was gradually
I just have terrible headaches, feel faint, weak, tired and nauseous. I was taking this for pain for only 6 weeks (90mg the last 3) and it didn’t work. Came off cold turkey pretty much, but my doc told me to. Been feeling awful for weeks and no end in sight. Why dont they warn us?
Am also on a reduced dose of SSRI following a horrible experience coming off slowly. Am carnivore and have eliminated all potential gut irritants. Would taking a histamine supplement be ok with an SSRI? Bromelain or DAO for example? Thank you.
You can try them. They never worked for me. I'd suggest going on a very low histamine diet. Nothing aged or ground. Carnivore might not be suitable.
Just go slow. I really believe the benzo taper has set us back. I’m tapering a benzo. I will hold antidepressant tapering until I’m healed better. I came off Effexor myself years ago. I opened capsule and took out one ball a week. Fish oil helped with brain zaps. Wish you all the best.
Am learning a lot. Never heard of this drug, but then again I have never been on a prescription of any type even antibiotics. Have had people I know try and describe the concepts of anxiety and depression. Many people I have known get that moody and unstable personality that is kind of frustrating but strangely funny to me. I feel bad for enjoying pushing their buttons just to watch them go off the rails. The more research I do the more I realize that I have been oblivious to the suffering of others due to their diet and lifestyle.
Ya well I was oblivious until this happened to me. So I guess in some ways I'm quite thankful. Looking forward go listening to your chat with Bart.
Please has anyone suffered with parasthesia severe itching tingling when withdrawing from Cymbalta
Ya thats histamine 100%. Go on a low histamine diet. Keep sugar and carbs to a minimum.
Yes awful I'm on it
My Dr gave this to me over 20 years ago for stress. I want off, I just am scared to go through that. Ears ringing and fuzzy head are my first symptoms when I miss them. I don’t think I would have mental problems. I got fibromyalgia from statins so it does help my pain. I’m on 60 mls a day. I’m 69 now. May not be worth it to me. I don’t really have any side effects from the drug. Staying on won’t (hopefully) kill me until I die on my own. Just tired of taking pills
Thank you for sharing. Did you have muscle spasms? I am going thru neck stiffness for the past several weeks after tapering off. X-ray is clear. So tired of going to so many drs with no solutions yet.
Yes you can get anything in withdrawal.
Omg I am now 2 weeks off Cymbalta 30mg and my neck is completely stiff, my shoulders also, I have muscular pain everywhere and I realize I am most of the time tense and cramped in my posture. I tried to find information on the Internet about these muscular symptoms but found nothing!
I am having shivers and fever. Flu like symptoms that are relentless
@@MienemLebenprobably histamine
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How do you tell the difference between symptoms the cymbalta was helping with and withdrawal symptoms?
I am tapering off but going down 50%!!
There will be physical symptoms. And over time you'll see the emotional stuff either does or doesn't go away. If it's unbearable you probably need another temporary drug to get you through.
What if the symptoms you're describing are not arising from withdrawal but from traumas that the drug keeps hidden ?
Got it!
No, trauma doesn't cause liver pain, vibrating feet, brain zaps, skin rashes. Come on.
This drug may have caused the WORST side effect for me after the Akathesia and physically urinary retention. I'm trying to heal the gut microbiome to get rid of it with meat only diet. I know my kidneys are healthy.
My doctor gave me 30 mgs to wing me off 60 mgs, for 9 days only. Then I have to go cold turkey.
One should be careful about generalizing from a single experience, like calling a drug a "poison". Some people can die because of eating peanuts due to an allergic reaction. We are all different in terms of our nervous system. What is beneficial to one can be harmful to someone else. I could reduce 60 mg per day duloxetine to zero within a single week, with absolutely no significant withrawal symptoms. It was a lot easier for me to come off duloxetine than to come off Xanax.
It really depends which one you come off of first. People will always react worse to subsequent psych meds they're withdrawing from. Cymbalta is poison for everyone in my opinion.
@@CarnivorelionIt has just occured to me that the reason why I could taper down duloxetine so easily within a week might have been the fact that I had been permanently on a rarely prescribed tricyclic antidepressant amitryptiline (100 mg per day) as well. Perhaps that is the key of getting off duloxetine easily which noone has realised yet.
SNRI ( Venlafaxine Duloxetine Milnacipram) I can eat like candy's. No side effects no withdrawals.Prozac the same. The only one withdrawal I had was bupropion ( 300mg) . Its very good medication. You feel like on Coke on it , but If you stop cold turkey ( at least me) I was going almost insane. Headaches nausea dysociacion confusion ,anxiety. I was feeling on age of psychosis or delirium + fizical symptoms. I think your problems had more to do with benzodiazepines addiction than cymbaltha.. Of course cymbaltha complicated all story. They should wack you on Prozac instead SNRI tapprering benzos. Benzos are worst sh..t. Withdrawal from benzos and alcohol are more severe than heroin It can kill you more likelky than opiates withdrawal. Believe or not: best antidepressant I found its not typical antidepressant. It's Armodafinil ( modified version modafinil). Cymbaltha suppose to be most toxic for liver ( among all antidepressants)