Thursday, December 4, 2008
Been gone. . . suffering greatly from cymbalta withdrawal. .thanks again Doctors!
I've been gone for a while and mostly sick, sick, sick. I was put on cymbalta in the spring to help with fibro pain and bridge the effexor withdrawal. The cymbalta withdrawal is absolutely worse than the effexor withdrawal, hands down. I started ramping down at the beginning of October and my the 21st of October I took my last dose (no thanks to my doctors and their continued incompetence and lack of caring). Five weeks later I can still barely leave my house in the early part of the day as I need a toilet close by. I have violent mood swings and when I'm down I'm way, way down. It's a scarey ride I've been on these past weeks and am hoping one of these days to wake up not feeling sick to my stomach. I was hoping once I was off all of these meds (cymbalta, although initially helped my fibro pain was short lived) I would lose weight and start feeling better. I found the cymbalta left me mostly puffy, tired, and worried about my liver. I wanted to try to be drug free (prescription drugs that I've taken non-stop for over 8 years) and to think my weight loss would be from simply being afraid to eat nearly anything I used to be able to eat. . . I am left with not trusting any doctors, none. I'm so tired of being sick all the time, but continue to hope that one of these days in the not too distant future I will start feeling normal again, whatever the heck that is.
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