How long do withdrawal symptoms last when you stop taking Cymbalta?


Question:
I recently stopped taking Cymbalta (went from 60mgs. to 30mgs. then stopped altogether). It's day 4 and I'm having withdrawals like "brain zaps", electric charges, headache. It's really affecting my ability to concentrate at work and makes me feel terrible. My doctor recommended that I start taking one every other day for another week and then stop again. Has anyone had a similar experience? Do I just need to wait out the withdrawals? How long do they last?

Answers:
Instead of listening to any doctors, I have done my own "weaning." I opened the capsule and took took out some of the medication. Each day, I try to take a smaller amount, but when I try to go down too fast, I am sick the next day. I get headaches, nausea, but the worse part is the dizziness. About 2-3 hours before it's time to take the next pill, I start feeling dizzy again. But it's something that I can handle. It has been about 10 days of "downsizing" my pill and tomorrow I am not going to take one. I know it's going to make me sick even though I barely took anything today, but I'm not working tomorrow and I'm hoping to sleep it off.

I do not by any means recommend the every other day. You would essentially be going through detox on the even days and reintroducing the drug on the odd days. I just went through one day of detox and now I'm on my second. It's awful, but there is no way, after going through the first day, that I would put the drug back into my system, just go through the detox again.

Good luck and don't plan to do anything during detox. I stayed in bed all day yesterday and now I'm trying to work through it. Yesterday was worse than today and I'm sure tomorrow will be much better than today.

Other Answers:
I'm still on it.
Have a look here and follow the links. Good luck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbalta


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