Cymbalta

I’m new here, I recently discovered the Cymbalta Hurts Worse page and it mentioned this page. I’ve been on Cymbalta for a decade and in my latest long term relationship I have developed “rages”. They ruined my relationship but also my physical health. I’m in the process of tapering but the relationship is a loss. I’m SO angry.

Big decision I’ve made … I thought I would share. I have been on Cymbalta (anti-depressant) to manage my diabetic neuropathy and fibromyalgia for about 5 or 6 years. While the medication does help, the side affects are still very annoying. I want to come off of it, but it’s one of those drugs you cannot just say, “Hey, I think I will stop taking this today,” and just stop. You have to taper off. This is a capsule (60mg) that has those tiny beads.

I am new to this group. I’ve been on Cymbalta for 4 years. It’s ruined my life. I’m a shell of the person I used to be. My biggest issue is my husband and I have no sex life. Which is making him feel unloved and unwanted. I want sex with him but when it comes to it I just have excuses for why I can’t. It’s not him and no matter how many times I tell him that it doesn’t matter. We’ve been fighting non stop for two years and we’ve both brought up splitting multiple times. I don’t want to loose him! I love him so much! I just know this medication is the reason I’m withdrawn emotionally and physically. I’ve been tapering for 4 months now and still see no signs of getting better. I’m gaining more and more weight. I can’t keep my eyes open. I was put on it for anxiety and I feel that’s coming back

I’ve been on Cymbalta for a total of about 5-6 years. I’m in the process of tapering, which is a long and slow process. On my full dose of 120mg I was a Zombie!! I’d sleep 10-16 hours a day, no energy, lack of feelings, and all the horrible side effects of an antidepressant. I decided I’d stop taking it because I realized the meds were not helping my depression only making it worse. So I started coming off the meds slowly and regained so much of what I was missing. I suffer with insomnia but now when I do sleep it’s kinda normal not the 10-16 hours like before. I do and don’t have feelings, They are really strong or non existent, i feel numb inside with a lot of situations, I can remember things, I can have conversations and not forget mid sentence what I was saying and an actual sex drive. But my confusion now is that I’ve become angry and I just feel the need to speak my mind all the time.

Traci Johnson died Feb 7, 2004 – She was a 19 year old college student who signed up for a clinical trial with Eli Lilly. She passed all their screenings and was deemed health. She would receive $150/day for participating in the drug trial.

Eli Lilly was running an experiment to prove duloxetine was safe at higher doses. They gave her a larger than therapeutic dose and 4 days before her death, she was given a placebo.  Unknown to her, she was cold turkeyed, found in the shower, hung herself. A perfectly healthy 19 year old. Eli Lilly said they were not responsible and walked away. They did not stop the clinical trial and the drug was approved.

What did the toxicology report say? How could she be in a clinical trial, die at Eli Lilly’s research facility, on their property, and not held responsible? : We do not believe at this time that the design or conduct of the study is related to the death”- Smith the talking head from Eli Lilly said. Her death should have been a blaring siren about the risks of these drugs and the ethics of this whole system. It was passed on by, the drug was approved. This drug now has over 50,000 people on the facebook group: Cymbalta Hurts Worse- searching for answers on surviving and tapering off of it. . Wow that’s a lot of lives suffering.

“I was coming off cymbalta and explaining my symptoms to Dr., and i was told i was relapsing. I called bullshit and i eventually got off the evil drug. Life is just fine without it.”