how to stop?

[pepsi24]

i feel like i'm going around in circles with these drugs. I've tried to come of the cymbalta twice on my own but i had breakdown at work on both occasion. The dr told me don't do it cuz it would be dificult to control/prolong the process. after more than a year i switched to effesor ..i try again for two days without it i felt like i was going mad,had lots of headaches,upset stomach. Presently i'm trying to wean myself off but i can't stand the side effects. i don't know what to do anymore

[lynn57]

Mammo is right.  You must be weaned very slowly off SSRI's and SSNRI's .  I weaned off effexor xr and it took a very long time, but I had no withdrawal.  Don't be in a hurry to get off these meds.  It takes patience.  Once you do wean off you may realize it was a necessary med for you.  Why do you want to wean off in the first place?  Just curious.

[mammo]

Unfortunately we often feel like we're on a Merry Go Round with these types of medications.  It is trial and error as to what will work best for us and the only way to know if they will work is to try them.  But don't give up and never try to wean yourself off of these types of drugs.  This requires carefull monitoring by your doctor with you on a weaning off schedule.  When we try to do it on our own it creates more problems for us and we think it's the medicine's fault when it's us not weaning off properly.  I think you need to have a good talk with your doctor regarding the use of these medications, and what to do if you should want to get off of them.  Often they make us feel so much better that it gives us a false sense of not needing the medication and we think we can do without it.  Then we wean off of it only to find that we do still need it.  Stop trying to do this on your own and talk with your doctor about it, you're creating some serious side effects by not weaning off under a doctor's guidance.