Hi, I'm Cookie

I’ve decided to taper off Cymbalta. I started on 20m to help with Fibromyalgia. I had many side effects (diarrhea, nausea, leg mobility during sleep, sweating). My gut doc chalked up the diarrhea and nausea to being older and Fibro. The leg mobility and sweating got much, much worse at 30m. Brain fog has popped up as well, forget a lot of what I hear or cannot remember simple things. I get irritable at too many things. The interrupted sleep is awful. After two years I’m done. I’d rather deal with the Fibro symptoms another way. I’m going to start tapering on my own at 10%. I’ll be seeing my doctor in a week and am fairly certain she will support the decision and help me taper off completely. I’m glad to find a large group of people doing the same thing! Very helpful and reassuring. I’m 75 and skeptical about many of the SSRIs after using several in the last 20 years. Glad we have them, believe they are overused and often given with little to no guidance or support