u/4jisai

i've posted a few times about this, but basically: accidentally ended up with serotonin syndrome in march, ER doc reduced my cymbalta from 60 mg to 20 mg with no tapering. it's been a bit over a month since then, and i've been dealing with the recovery/withdrawal/pots flare-up ever since. my doctors and i have all talked and agreed cymbalta wasn't a good fit for me and my chronic illnesses. unfortunately because i had serotonin syndrome, cross-tapering would be a higher risk for me. so... i am going to try discontinuing the cymbalta and started taking prozac 10 mg in its place. other methods would just draw out the withdrawal and make it take much longer for me to be able to switch to a potentially better med and start recovering. and where im at at least they dont make cymbalta in anything less than 20 mg, so if i wanted to taper id have to somehow cut open the capsules and count out the beads every day. it's day one and i'm already feeling it. i don't know if i'll succeed, i don't know what the withdrawal will be like. but i'm trying. i'm trying to be brave and make a change, trying to heal, to believe in a better future. i want to feel better. i survived the serotonin syndrome, i survived the immediate drop from 60 mg to 20 mg. i want to get through this. so... we'll see how it goes!