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[shannon1031]

Just found this website, thankgod there's other people out there. This sh*t make me so tired i need 8 hours a sleep a day if i dont get that i'm shot i can not do a thing. also it makes you so stupid i cant think at all.Very forgetfull short term is shot,got brain zaps and it feels like i'm going to have a anxity attack when i get too tired. My eyes feel like there bulging out of my head..

[Tessa]

Just found this website, thankgod there's other people out there. This sh*t make me so tired i need 8 hours a sleep a day if i dont get that i'm shot i can not do a thing. also it makes you so stupid i cant think at all.Very forgetfull short term is shot,got brain zaps and it feels like i'm going to have a anxity attack when i get too tired. My eyes feel like there bulging out of my head..

Hi Shannon,
I know exactly how you feel. Since being on Cymbalta for almost 2 years, I have never slept so much in all of my life. I am always too tired to do anything. I hate Cymbalta. HATE IT! I am having a terrible day today. I have weaned myself down to less than 15mg a day. At one time I took 90mg a day. I am having just about every withdrawal symptom you can name today. It is awful. I thought that I was doing okay yesterday...today, I am not doing worth a darn.
Good luck.
Tessa

[Sam I am]

Just found this website, thankgod there's other people out there. This sh*t make me so tired i need 8 hours a sleep a day if i dont get that i'm shot i can not do a thing. also it makes you so stupid i cant think at all.Very forgetfull short term is shot,got brain zaps and it feels like i'm going to have a anxity attack when i get too tired. My eyes feel like there bulging out of my head..

I've got the eye thing going on. I keep wanting to look in the mirror to make sure I don't look as odd as I feel. The eyeballs feel swollen and dry. And sometimes they lag, ever so slightly behind my desire to look another direction. Seems a little better today than in the past few, I'm on day 11 of cold turkey quitting.

[pamela]

I've got the eye thing going on. I keep wanting to look in the mirror to make sure I don't look as odd as I feel. The eyeballs feel swollen and dry. And sometimes they lag, ever so slightly behind my desire to look another direction. Seems a little better today than in the past few, I'm on day 11 of cold turkey quitting.

Sam-

What dosage did you quit cold turkey from? I have tried to go cold turkey before and wasn't successful. Kudo's to you for making to so long and I hope that it only gets better.

Pam

[Sam I am]

Sam-

What dosage did you quit cold turkey from? I have tried to go cold turkey before and wasn't successful. Kudo's to you for making to so long and I hope that it only gets better.

Pam

Hi Pam, I was originally on 60mgs and requested a lower dose of 30 mgs as the side effects on 60 were too much, so maybe it isn't considered cold turkey. I took the 30 for about a month to get through the holidays. Waste of time for me personally; but who's to know what might have been had I not? Then just stopped on Jan 3rd. Oooo, so here I am at 20 days. Physical symptoms abated for the most part, or evolving(?).I think I am being spared in some way. Although I felt some back sliding in the last two days. Thanks for the good wishes. I send them back to you.
When I quit another drug,citalopram, cold I frightened myself back to the DR which resulted in the Cymbalta. Since we are all as different as we are the same physiologically, it just seems to take a fair amount of intuition to heal(Not to mention trying to raise children and finesse a relationship with another "adult"), which btw is a big factor in my quitting. I asked myself, "How can I trust my feelings both physical and emotional if many of them are merely effects from a medication?"

[pamela]

Hi Pam, I was originally on 60mgs and requested a lower dose of 30 mgs as the side effects on 60 were too much, so maybe it isn't considered cold turkey. I took the 30 for about a month to get through the holidays. Waste of time for me personally; but who's to know what might have been had I not? Then just stopped on Jan 3rd. Oooo, so here I am at 20 days. Physical symptoms abated for the most part, or evolving(?).I think I am being spared in some way. Although I felt some back sliding in the last two days. Thanks for the good wishes. I send them back to you.
When I quit another drug,citalopram, cold I frightened myself back to the DR which resulted in the Cymbalta. Since we are all as different as we are the same physiologically, it just seems to take a fair amount of intuition to heal(Not to mention trying to raise children and finesse a relationship with another "adult"), which btw is a big factor in my quitting. I asked myself, "How can I trust my feelings both physical and emotional if many of them are merely effects from a medication?"

Sam-

I am from Southeastern Lower Michigan....so sending good wishes along I-94. LOL

[poot2277]

I am so happy I found this website!! Iwas on 60mg for a year, I was sweating so much so was put on 30mg for 1 week, then told to go off. Well, I have been off for 5 days and am having a horrible day, and to make things worse my Dr.'s office will not return my calls, I called yesterday and all I got was an answering machine, I left a message to call me that I wasn't feeling good. No response, today was worse, i thought I was going crazy, with all the dizziness, dry eyes, brain zapps, shivering, crying for no reason, and getting mad immediately for no reason. I googled cymbalta withdrawl, and found that so many people were experiencing the same thing, I actually felt releived that it wasn't just me! I am going to the Dr.'s office personally so I can get some relief with something, and to tell them I do not appreciate not having my calls returned, and not being told about possible withdrawls and what I might expect. So nice to read about what i am experiencing.

[madbookworm]

I've got the eye thing going on. I keep wanting to look in the mirror to make sure I don't look as odd as I feel. The eyeballs feel swollen and dry. And sometimes they lag, ever so slightly behind my desire to look another direction. Seems a little better today than in the past few, I'm on day 11 of cold turkey quitting.

[madbookworm]

Just EIGHT hours? I would be thrilled with that. This stuff has me so zombied-out that if it weren't for my husband and/or my bladder, I'd be asleep 24/7.

I take care of my three year old granddaughter one afternoon a week, and I evidently fell asleep while we were watching a Winnie the Pooh cartoon. When I woke up, she was happily munching cat crumblies with the cats. She had cat chow breath, but other than that, seemed OK. But that kind of stuff scares me. Can't have that happening on my watch any more. She is the treasure of my life.