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got off oxy now trying to kick cymbalta

I stopped using oxy 6 weeks ago today.  I guess that would be 42 days.  I want to be completely free of prescription drugs so I have weaned off Cymbalta and have been completely off for almost three days now.  I feel I no longer need it because I can run and exercise now and I have been able to stay off antidepressants for years as long as I could run.  This whole drug dependence stemmed from an injury which stopped me from working out for almost a year and a half but is now better enough for me to start getting back to my life.  The terrible thing about getting off Cymbalta is the withdrawals.  I weaned off slowly but I am still having to deal with withdrawal symptoms.  This withdrawal isn't anywhere near as bad as oxy withdrawal so far but it is still no fun.  I have electricity shooting through my brain, it's really weird and comes in waves, body aches, dizziness, wicked mood swings, canker sores, upset stomach,insomnia and a general feeling of weirdness.  Even though I can function, at times I am miserable.  It seems drs neglect to tell you the freaking hell you will go through getting off these things.  I expected it from oxy but this has caught me off guard.  Has anyone else gone through this? I have read the percentage of people who experience these symptoms and it seems I am just lucky to have so many of them...
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Hey thanks for the info.  I am still going through wd eventhough its a week now.  Guess I need to have a sit-down with my dr.  I think there is a strong possibility he doesn't know how hard it is to get off of this...Even though the wd aren't as harsh as opiate (oxy) withdrawal it seems never-ending.  ONe of my clients told me it tookabout 2 months for her to stop wding from Paxil which I believe is a similar drug - SSRI.

I am glad you understand the "brain zaps" or whatever you want to call it because I have seen it called many different things.  I continue to have those as well as dizziness, power surges or that sound the transformer makes when it surges, crazy mood swings, fatigue, and on and on.  There seems to be no end in sight...I thought the hardest part of this journey would be getting off opiates but it seems this is just as bad but in a different more stangling way.  Dd I mention the needles that poke me when I sit or lay still? I may go into medicine when this is all said and done but I probably wouldn't make any money because I would tell people the TRUTH.
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Drop a note to "Mother5590". She is well educated with the cymbalta. I know exactly what your talking about on the brain zaps (thats the best description I could come up with). I was only on it a month and jumped ship after doing some homework a couple months prior to finding this site. For some people it works great but for some, its a nightmare and your right about "why didn't anybody tell me about some of this junk?"..Well don't get mad at your doctor because the Pharma kept some of that info to themselve's when they promoted that stuff at the beginning. Even my doctor was shocked when I told him of the "why's" that I had decided to stop. He had been given hundreds of samples which he gave out at the Pharma's beck and call as the latest wonder drug. When I had to have it filled as he was out of samples, I can see why. It was expensive stuff..Anyway, give Mother5590 a wakeup call. You may not like what she has to say, but at least you will have a general idea of what "might" be the worst case with you,,or maybe not. But she went thru some pretty rough wd's. She knows the in's and out's of that stuff..:)
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good luck withdrawing from those.  I once stopped taking antidepressents many years ago not thinking about it and not weaning off at all  and the WD was worse than a narcotic WD.  you might want to talk Dr. but I do remember it being worse than Opiates but I did make it.  Watch out for any triggers it might set off.
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