![]() ![]() I stopped seeing a psychiatrist when I finally realized that it was the drugs making me sick. The only thing for me to do is to get off all of them. I have found that I don't tolerate psych drugs well at all.they make me feel worse. I felt even more agitated and poisoned after that. I started to taper immediately and that's when my doctor cross tapered me from Lexapro to Cymbalta. When the terror and akathisia didn't let up for 6 months, I reinstated the benzo but found that it didn't only made me feel sick and poisoned. But, then I had a terrible emotional trauma that threw me back into benzo withdrawal. I had been doing ok.healing after about 18 months. And that was my second benzo taper.I reinstated after unrelenting terror and akathisia 2 years after my first taper. I tapered valium for about 14 months and did a daily liquid micro taper for the last 5 mg. Fishinghat, correct me here if I'm wrong about having to switch to a different benzo. So, Gardenlady, be kind to your mouse and give it what it needs. We are not here to say Suffer and Suffer. Ease your mouse in your head and give it food for it to calm down. I don't think that the Creator enjoys seeing you this way at all. I do understand that it's spiritual and mental, I sure do. Go back on a different benzo, I would say that to my mom, even though you and I are the same age.don't keep suffering like this, it breaks my heart to see you suffer with terror and fear. My advice is different from what you usually hear on the forum, I think. And it gets to me that at this age we go on suffering, which is real sad. Where are you at with this disabiliting and so crazy Cymbalta?Īt this moment, you have absolutely no quality of life. You got me thinking here and mostly reflecting. Any suggestions? Sorry to hijack Robbie's thread! I'm praying about it and asking God what He would have me do. The Cymbalta is making me sick, but I'm too sick from the benzo taper to do anything about it. However, I'm in benzo withdrawal and very unstable. Honestly, I think the Cymbalta is making it worse as I've been agitated ever since starting it. The depression, fear, terror are 24/7 and too horrifying to describe. My symptoms are mostly spiritual and mental.the only physical ones I have are insomnia and tinnitus. Things started deteriorating after the second week and really got bad after I'd been off a month. I just entered my second month off of the benzo and it's gotten rather difficult. Thanks for the kind greeting, Gail! I think of you and fishinghat often and wonder how you both are. We missed you and I had to come by and say a big Hello and give you a big hug! Thank you! How is it going with your process? You may be able to have a compounding pharmacy do the micro-tapering for you.So nice to hear from you.Opening/closing capsules and counting granules requires fine motor skills that not all patients possess.Research some of the websites dedicated to micro-tapering off medications like Cymbalta, and talk to your doctor about the pros and cons of trying it.Cymbalta caplets are filled with coated granules, which means you can open the caplet, remove a certain number of granules, put the caplet back together, and take it as normal.Keep in mind that the tapering process will be easier if you're switching to a similar medication, which will ease your withdrawal symptoms.If you've been taking Cymbalta for a long time, you'll need to take your time as you wean yourself off of it. The amount of time you'll need to taper yourself off of the medication depends on how long you were taking it, as well as your dosage.If tapering down through the standard Cymbalta doses still results in CDS, you might try a far more gradual process known as "microtapering." In the case of Cymbalta, this involves removing increasing amounts of the medication within the caplets you take over a period of 6 months or more. Ask about "microtapering" if standard tapering isn’t working. ![]()
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