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Marcaroni

Updated 10mo ago

Going off Antidepressants: Need Advice

Does anyone have any experience going off antidepressants after long-term use? I’ve been on nortriptyline, lamictal, and Cymbalta in the past about 8 years, and I’ve found the Cymbalta has completely emotionally numbed me. I can’t cry, I can’t feel joy, I can’t feel excited. I almost miss the mood swings because it’s better than this constant nothingness. I’m seeing a psychiatrist in May to adjust, but I just don’t know what to try. I can’t track symptoms really because the only intense emotion I feel anymore is rage. I feel like all of my best memories since I started it were wasted because I felt nothing. Any recommendations for medication that didn’t do this? I’m in regular therapy and it has helped a lot. Medical cannabis has also been legalized where I am, but I fear if I ask about it they’ll think I’m just drug seeking. It’s truly the only thing thus far that has helped and I’m able to function normally with it.

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compendium687

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Cymbalta (duluxotine) is black labelled for withdrawal and has a complex weaning procedure to come off it. I was without mine for 3 days as I ran out and had awful brain zaps, near constant diarrhea, vomiting and muscle weakness. The best advice I've seen online is to go to a compounding pharmacist and get them to help you set up a weaning program. People have done it at home but it involves counting each individual grain inside the capsules... madness

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