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Posted 2/28/2013 12:45 PM (GMT -8)
So I am going to quit cymbalta , I quit zoloft and lexapro cold turkey after taking them for one year ! I have been two days trying to quit it and I feel like a sad feeling, like something weird. it scares me to become depressed shakehead , I was taking 30 mg. The reason why I am taking it is because of GAD and OCD. I was fine 3 weeks ago then after i had anxiety and i couldn't sleep i decided to to quit cymbalta and switch to efferxor and baam !!! I started to feel horrible i thought it was the effexor but now i know is the cymbalta because i feel horrible since i messed with my dose. Now what should I do :/? please help. its the smallest dose so i really dont know should i take it every 2 days ? Like I am mentally ok I know this is just something temporal it will go but it still i feel like i swear like sadness and body pain. I just want to be ok to like do things normally :/ I want to go out and stuff but i feel really bad.

Thanks for help :-)
Posted 2/28/2013 1:38 PM (GMT -8)
You really need to discuss this with your primary care doctor.
Posted 2/28/2013 8:49 PM (GMT -8)
Hey lunakg,

I am sorry that you are going through this time of uncertainty with your medication.

I agree that your prescribing doctor is a good place to start, but we also have a great site in our Resources called 'the road back'

It may give you additional information that will help you in your goals.

Best of luck with this, and keep us posted.;)

S.C.
Posted 2/28/2013 9:52 PM (GMT -8)
Thank you so much ! well I went back to the doctor and they didn't have in my records that I have been taking cymbalta for 6 months. He kept saying that it was not withdrawal symtoms that i am having since i tried to get rid of cymbalta. I swear before that i was a little ocd anxious but it was not that bad , my problem with cymbalta was that i could not sleep and that it was not really making me feel really less nervous . Anyway I am dissapointed beceause i thought he would know that he can't just take me of cymbalta cold turkey, he had that i took the pill for 1 week that is why he said i could go from cymbalta to effexor cold turkey. It was a huge mistake to take cymbalta from the beginning now i decided i will take it every 2 days then just rid of it.
Neve in my life i have never taken a medicine that every time i mess with my dose my whole body gets ruin. I forget things and i swear i have soo much sadness in the mornings. I was fine before i messed with this pill!! and I am upset at my doctor.

Anyway thank you for your help i am trying linden tea instead of xanax :/ I am sick of pills !!
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