I made it through the storm of cold turkeying Cymbalta! I made it! I have been off of it for a year and two months. The symptoms finally stopped at about 7 or 8 months. I had ALL the symptoms everyone else is reporting. I did not stop work though plus during that year, I started a new side business of growing peonies for the cut flower business. Life does go on! I plugged through the withdrawal even though I was in horrible shape. I was determined to beat it. So how I did it was with help from a chiropractor who is also a nutrionist. She got me off all sweets! No more sugar! She put me on supplements made by Standard Process that you can only get them through a medical practitioner. If you google Standard Process website it should have a list of doctors who are enrolled with them plus the areas where they are or who might be near you.
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These supplements are made from real food, so they are good, whole food supplements with no additives or preservatives and well worth the money! It wasn't till I was completely off sweets that I really overcame the the depression. My nutritionist said that sugar was causing inflammation not only in my body, but my brain which caused me to feel depressed. I have always been a sweet fanatic big time and for me to stop eating sweets is unheard of. But I DID IT! My nutritionist also does muscle testing to see what other foods my body likes or doesn't like. Most of them my body likes, but if it rancid grains my body doesn't like those and if it's anything sweet, my body doesn't like it. I can have a little honey or a little coconut sugar or stevia. Otherwise I have learned to sweeten my food with vanilla or fruits. I will never forget those brain zaps, the stomach ailments, the nightmares, the back pain, blurred vision at times, the exhaustion and all the other withdrawal symptoms that started about three days after I did the cold turkey. They lasted for months! In the meantime, I have lost about 25-30 pounds and am on the skinny side now. My cholesterol used to be way high and now it is well within the normal range. So that is how I'm answering your question, GrandCypress. I did it, others did it, and you can do it too! Hang in there. My best advise is to find someone like I did, a good nutritionist who does muscle testing for food, get off sugar completely, and get on those Standard Process supplements. If you start taking those supplements and don't notice a change within a month for the better, then go to another nutritionist. Because some of them really don't do it correctly. Reason I'm sayin that is because I went to two of them who prescribed Standard Process. The first one was way off base. He tested with a biomeridian technique, and I felt horrible. So I switched to the second nutritionist/chiropractor who did the muscle testing and she was wonderful! I also spent a lot of time taking detox baths... hot water, epsom salts + baking soda that helped detox my body and get rid of the last remaining cymbalta. It stayed in my body for a long time, but the detox baths and supplements finally got rid of it. Most of all, find out if you get the sugar blues from eating sweets! Everybody knows sugar is bad for the body. Some people get joint aches from it and no depression. But I had both joint aches and depression. Also... If you think you have Lyme Disease, then follow up on that as much as you can. A conventional doctor is not going to run the labs on you the way a knowledgable Lyme doctor would. It's no wonder your labs are not showing much. LabCorp will only show Lyme Disease if it's acute but not chronic. Acute meaning like you just got bit and infected. Chronic is like when you feel terrible all the time, fever, aches, weakness, brain fog. Lyme gets into the entire body. That includes spinal fluid and brain. It can get everywhere and it has many co-infections that must be treated. It can mimick so many autoimmune diseases such as lupus, hashimoso disease of the thyroid, R, A, fibromyalgia, and so many others. The only way to find out if you have chronic Lyme Disease is seek out a Lyme literate doctor. Most of them have experienced Lyme Disease themselves and learned how to treat. Google Lyme Disease and join many of those knowledgable groups. I am 62 years old, by the way, and have had Lyme Disease and my 35 year old daughter is currently being treated for chronic Lyme Disease right now. Lyme Disease is very serious and the ticks are making people sicker than before. Take care, God bless and hang in there.
