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[Bishon_girl]

Hello, I am new and I joined today. I was on 60mg. of Cymbalta and I have to come off due to finaces. I is not a bad thing though as it really interferes with my diabetes. I am on day 3 and so far so good. I vomited last night but that's all. Feeling alittle dizzy rith now, but again not critical. What I have read, it sounds like hell. How lont does the withdrawal take when going cold turkey? Don't have friends that I want to involved in this. Husband is on Paxil himself so is not much help. I guess I'm going this one alone. I am a very spiritual person so I believe in a higher powe, so I'm not alone in that respect. Thanks for listening.

Bishon_girl

[Ms_M]

The folks here on the forum are great for support! There does not seem to be a "formula" for how long it takes for someone to get through withdrawals. It can be done! I have been off Cymbalta for 2 months now and am doing so much better. I still have some random crying - but that could just be my disease. Also, I have brain zaps occasionally, but they are fewer and farther between.

Hang in there!

[krisann]

Hello, I am new and I joined today. I was on 60mg. of Cymbalta and I have to come off due to finaces. I is not a bad thing though as it really interferes with my diabetes. I am on day 3 and so far so good. I vomited last night but that's all. Feeling alittle dizzy rith now, but again not critical. What I have read, it sounds like hell. How lont does the withdrawal take when going cold turkey? Don't have friends that I want to involved in this. Husband is on Paxil himself so is not much help. I guess I'm going this one alone. I am a very spiritual person so I believe in a higher powe, so I'm not alone in that respect. Thanks for listening.

Bishon_girl

Welcome to the forums!

I tried to quit cold turkey but it did not work for me. I have a rather hard time quitting medications in general though, so its not really a big suprise. I decided to wean myself off slowly this time to hopefully decrease withdrawal symptoms. Every person is different in what they experience and how severe, as well as for how long they experience them.

This is a great place for support, or even just to say how your feeling. Stay in touch and let us all know how your doing

KrisAnn

[Bishon_girl]

Welcome to the forums!

I tried to quit cold turkey but it did not work for me. I have a rather hard time quitting medications in general though, so its not really a big suprise. I decided to wean myself off slowly this time to hopefully decrease withdrawal symptoms. Every person is different in what they experience and how severe, as well as for how long they experience them.

This is a great place for support, or even just to say how your feeling. Stay in touch and let us all know how your doing

KrisAnn

[Danita]

Hello everyone! I am definately a newbie! and I need your help. I have been on Cymbalta for over a year, I started with 60mg, then was increased to 120mg about 3 mths ago. To keep this short and sweet.. I have been completely off Cymbalta for going on 9 days now, due to a stomach virus. I am miserable to say the least; crying, naseated, dizzy, brain zaps, sweating, jitters you name it. Is there anything natural I can take to help? my doc is no help, he says to either get back on my full dose or just tuff it out. I don't want to take the Cymabalta anymore. Any help would be appreciated.

Danita

[cynthia123]

Today is 7/26/10. I have been on 60 mg Cymbalta for nearly five years. It was prescribed for chronic pain following a bad car accident. In that time I have gained 45 pounds, have no energy, I'm tired all the time, I can't concentrate, night sweats, day sweats - my clothes are soaking wet all the time. The list goes on. Three days ago I stopped taking it - cold turkey. Since then, I have crippling nausea, a screaming headache, diarrhea, and dizziness. I finally gave up and took the pill about an hour ago. Clearly, cold turkey is not going to work for me. I really need help getting off this stuff. I'm just not sure where to start. I'm so glad I found this site. Any help, coaching, ideas would be appreciated.[/font]

[Johnh]

OK first off I have a couple of things I need to say to the people who freaking designed the Registration Process!!!!

I have been trying to register for 20 minutes! because of this I came very very close to throwing my laptop through my 42" TV. I actually had it in both hands and was pulling back to throw it when I had a dizzy spell that stopped me....Thank God.... or whoever??

You do realize that some of the people that try to register may be heavily medicated OR.......OR maybe they will be going through severe withdrawal symptoms!!!!

First of all there were no mistakes HIGHLIGHTED as it said!!!! NOTHING was highlighted!! It said my user name was available and then underneath when I hit register it said my user name was being used by someone else?????

When I finally got through that process and seem to have it all working ok your Captcha kept kicking me out??? When have you ever seen a Captcha with a , after the word???


So... Please look into this and remember who you have registering ) Thank you


I have been on Cymbalta 120MG combined with 300MG of Wellbutrin XL a day for about 6 years now. I have also been on Oxycontin 40MG x3 every 6 hours and Ratio Oxycocet x2 every 6 hours along with Ratio Fentanyl 100MG good for 2 days.

Here is my problem. Even though in a lot of pain I have always remained in good shape. Flat belly, not real muscular but flat at least and my weight has always been the same. I fluctuate between 190 and 200 ibs for the last 30 years. Oh yeah, I am 6 feet tall. after being on these meds and learning how to control them, the hardest one being the Oxycontin!! about 2 years ago I lost all sexual ambition, and that is from someone dating very regular, and highly sexual. I wanted nothing to do with it, I was no longer turned on and had no feel for it. Everything still worked. I tried to make it work in order to make sure it did (A little to much information? Sorry) because I was very worried about becoming Impotent. So everything was sort of fine. Pain was under somewhat control, everything still worked, I was still in good shape with a flat belly. I always had it on my mind wondering what all these meds could do to me but I figured crap! I have been on them for 5 years now, and besides the total lack of ever wanting sex, everything seemed alright. The only thing that was really bothering me was the Oxycontin!! I was afraid of how addicted I had become to it and how every 4 or 5 months I had to up the dose in order to keep the pain in line and as I guessed my body got use to it. Because of the dosage now it was starting to affect me mentally big time. I was falling asleep standing up and being woke up when my head hit the fridge or the cabinet or floor. I was falling asleep in the middle of a conversation with someone, I was falling asleep with a smoke in my hand and being woke up after being burnt. You should see my wood floors and bed spreads and carpets. I really don't know how I didn't have a fire?? So I decided that was it for the Oxycontin!! although everyone told me not to try and cold Turkey Oxycontin or I would die, I decided that was better then the way my life was becoming now. My kids didn't even want to visit anymore because they said I looked 60 years old and it just wasn't me anymore!!
then one day I am looking in the mirror leaving the bathroom and caught a glimpse of my flat belly! it was no longer flat!! It was like over night I had swell up to the point when I looked down in the shower I could just see part of my toes, NOTHING else!! (Again, A little to much information? Sorry)not only that but I had developed.......ugh! Man Boobs!!! like where the hell did this come from and where was I when it happened?? Not only that but it finally happened!!!!! I was now Impotent!!! It didn't work anymore. That coupled with the worst part, not having my kids drop by anymore did it!!

So I cold turkied the Oxycontin. (**** Warning!! don't try this at home as it may Kill you!!! you must be a trained Idiot ****) The reason I knew, or thought I knew I could do it was because of the Fentanyl. I had tried not taking the Oxycontin for a couple of days and up the dose of Fentanyl, as a test. It seemed to work!! but would it work long term?? I uped the dose of Fentanyl by 50 mg so I was at 150mg. per 2 days. After 4 weeks I was off the Oxycontin and no side effects, NONE!!

I also noticed I was starting to notice women again!! Very exciting. Now for the weirdest, and according to my Doctor, the most unexplainable thing!
(Again, A little to much information? Sorry) it was only half the size it use to be??? So now I had a huge belly, Man boobs, and it was half the size it use to be!!! KILL ME NOW!!! I was turning into a woman, a real ugly one!!

I went to see my Doctor, not my Pill pushing Pain Specialist, but my family Doctor. I showed him and he to said it was really strange. He decided to put me on Testim gel 1% he ran some tests and said my testosterone was a little low. so he would put me on it for 8 weeks to see what would happen.
Some of the side effects were Man Boobs??? What! and extreme violent attitude?? Great! I thought what the hell! So I gave it a go.

But now my main goal was to get off the Fentanyl. But what about my pain?? some of you more observant ones may ask? I didn't care anymore! I cold turkied the Fentanyl using the Oxycocet to take care of any side effects. It worked beautifully. Every time I felt any kind of a side effect coming on I took 1 Oxycocet. I did this for another 4 weeks and finally all side effects were gone. To get off the Oxycocet I simply stop taking them and I was ok.

Back to the Testim. It didn't work!!! getting bigger man boobs and I was having extreme terrible outbursts! in fact lost a girl friend over it. She took me to Montreal for my Birthday to see Cirque Du Soleil and out for dinner after. We had a great time and a lot of fun that day, It was when we went to the Hotel I thought we were staying in and ended up at a Motel that I blew up and took her head off. What the hell did you rent a Motel for?? I can't stand Motels. So that kind of killed the remaining weekend. After I had calmed down I tried to explain to her and although I don't think she believed me she did come around somewhat. She told me this was all she could get and it cost her the price of a 4 star Hotel because it was INDY weekend in Montreal!! I think I died a bit that day, that moment. Sunday we left for home and it was a pretty quiet drive home. The thing that finally did it was when I blew up again and told her I couldn't stand her spoiled rotten little brat of a 17 year old Daughter!!! Ouch!

So now to the point of this entire stupid story. I had no problem getting off the Oxycontin. I had no problem getting off the Fentanyl. I had no problem getting of the Oxycocet. And two weeks ago I stopped the Testim, which I don't think is addictive anyhow??

Here's the problem. After getting off everything and dealing with the pain. A few things are back to normal. My kids are visiting regularly again and it has come back to 90% of it's original size(Again, A little to much information? Sorry). But I still have the man boobs and I still have the gut??

After finding this Forum tonight and reading about the weight problems you have given me new hope. Because my finances being temporarily cut off I have not been able to get my Cymbalta! I still have some Wellbutrin left so I have only been taking that. It has been 2 days since I have had the Cymbalta. I have just started having Dizzy spells, stomach pain and Very Very moody, ask my poor dogs. I don't think I have ever yelled at them before, well at least for nothing. You should see the way they are looking at me! Earlier today I wanted to go down and rip this person who is screwing up my finances at the moment, to shreds. I mean I really wanted to do it and I had to keep telling myself I would end up in jail and no one to look after my animals. I wrote some horrific emails which I also, thank god, stopped myself from sending. I would have had the Cops at my door!!

Then I found this forum and started reading through your problems and I started balling my eyes out, just as they are freaking tearing right now!!

Ok,gone now. Then when I tried to register I again wanted to rip someone apart!!

And now as I write this and think these people are going to think I am retarded, I keep doing it because for some reason it is making me feel better.

Now after all the crap above, which I think in someway is all related to what's happening now, cause I am sure I have freaked my body out a bit in the last 3 or 4 months with all this cold turkey stuff.

Here's my questions:

1. how long do you think this extreme mood change will happen if I stay off the Cymbalta, again Cold Turkey?
2. I still have the man boobs and the belly but no real weight gain? and even after starving myself for a couple of days no weight change and same belly. Usually if I cut my food intake down for a week I could control my weight and my look. Do you think if I stay off the Cymbalta I may get rid of one or both of my final problems?? The Belly and the Boobs??
3. How long do you think the stomach pain and dizziness will continue or get worse if I stay off the Cymbalta??
4. Do you all now think I am retarded?? )

I understand that each individual is different but there is a standard pattern.



If you actually read all of this and answered some of my questions then I thank you with all my heart.

Dave )