My psychiatrist told me to stop cymbalta for a week without tapering it down before I could start a MAOI medication. I'm feeling awful physically and mentally. Has anyone else been advised to go cold turkey before changing meds? How did you survive?
Maybe go back on your regular dosage until the new year so you don’t crash with everybody out on holidays? I remember trying to come of my Fluvoxamin a few years back on my own :( big mistake... and how messed up I became. Crying, racing thoughts, fear, depressed... My doc gave me hell for doing that and not talking with him. Hope you are okay
Hi Angie! I am so sorry for what you are going through. A doctor once put me on a med that I couldn't run or do much of anything while taking. He knew I was an athlete. I felt like I was taking LSD. It was horrible. There are bad doctors out there, but there are also good ones. I pray you find a good one soon. Love Chanty
Yes I have gone cold turkey on Cymbolta and it was not a good experience for me. I need to add that I take Clonazepam as well. I have no health insurance at this time and I just could not afford anything. My body went into a spiral down. My blood pressure was extremely high, panic attacks that I would normally handle and my emotional state was not accepted well by family and friends. Of course I received the typical saying "take your meds" but they had no idea how much the cost of all that I was using. I am in a better place with quietly finding out ways to decrease my medication cost; accepting that from folks if you only knew how I felt....but you don't and I am in a better place. I still have a ways to go. It would be so much better for my life if I didn't need all the meds but it is my cure to have a decent life
Oh my @Louise56, $300.00 is far more than I could afford also. I am so sorry you are in this predicament. I have never been told to stop all meds except the time a quack put me on Stellazine. I had no choice but to stop that as I felt like I was on an acid trip all the time. Hated that drug and found a better doctor. But, to totally pull you off medicine without trying something first is irresponsible on the doctor's part. Have you thought of going to someone else. I take Zoloft and Airiprazole at night. Buspar has also been added for the anxiety I suffer. I am allergic to so many medicines, but these have no ill affects and seem to be working quite well. Praying for you sister!
I'm there now. I stopped taking my Fluxotine (generic for Prozac) as it was no longer working. My new Psych MD wants to try me on another type of med, only she wants me to go for genetic testing first to narrow down the types that will work best for me, unfortunately this test will cost me $300 out of pocket and at this time I cannot afford it. So it has been almost 8 months without any type of medication for me for my depression and I find myself very emotional, crying at the drop of a hat. Not good. Embarrassing to say the least. I am working now so I will set up this test ASAP as I need to be put back on medication soon.