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Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain
Natural treatments for fibromyalgia and chronic pain emphasize functional and holistic medicine, addressing root causes like inflammation, infections, and nutritional deficiencies. Avoiding drugs, these methods advocate clean diets, supplements, and good gut health for healing. Patients are urged to choose qualified medical professionals carefully and educate themselves on alternative approaches. Functional medicine seeks to understand and treat illness origins rather than symptoms.
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From CHW: Symptoms
PREFACE Below this yellow text block are actual testimonials from the Facebook Group “Cymbalta Hurts Worse”. The inventor of Cymbalta/duloxetine, Eli Lilly, delivers a product insert with the drug. These are excerpts from it (https://pi.lilly.com/us/cymbalta-pi.pdf). Some of the excerpts have been trimmed to make them shorter. This is a summary of the most egregious issues […]
From CHW: Bad Dr. Tapers
PREFACE The manufacturer of Cymbalta/duloxetine, Eli Lilly, is very clear that the drug must be discontinued slowly. However, few doctors seem to appreciate how slowly, in spite of its popularity with doctors. “In 2021, it was the 27th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 20 million prescriptions.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duloxetine From the Insert […]
From CHW: Successes
I followed the plan of tapering as set forth by this group and was one of the lucky ones I guess because I did not have any withdrawal symptoms.That said, I had to take a very careful look at why I was taking the medication and immerse myself into a plan that would help me […]
From CHW: Cold Turkey
PREFACE To puts these anonymous posts below in perspective, “Cold Turkey” is when you are on Cymbalta/duloxetine for more than a few weeks and stop abruptly, often at the advice of uninformed medical professionals. Following is a quote from Eli Lilly, the inventors of Cymbalta, in their package insert cautioning against too fast discontinuation: https://pi.lilly.com/us/cymbalta-pi.pdf […]
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Reinstatement
Suddenly stopping the use of Cymbalta can cause withdrawal symptoms. You have up to three weeks to restart taking it without too many risks. If you do reinstate, a small dose to start is recommended. After that time, you can still restart taking it gradually, but it’s important to talk to a doctor. If you want to stop taking Cymbalta, it’s best to gradually reduce the dose, instead of stopping all at once. Details in the article…
Reinstatement- borrowed
Thanks to our friends at SurvivingAntidepressants.org for this excellent document. https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/topic/7562-about-reinstating-and-stabilizing-to-reduce-withdrawal-symptoms Reinstatement is NOT a Safety Net Don’t suddenly go off a psychiatric drug assuming that reinstatement is a safety net! This is one of the reasons we advocate gradual tapering to minimize withdrawal symptoms. Once the nervous system is destabilized by withdrawal, all bets […]
Authorities
This page lists many of the authoritative materials used to develop the Cymbalta Hurts Worse Gradual Taper™ Method. STUDIES, PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS Dr. Mark Horowitz, Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnoyAcwO_OAexcellent article: [ignore the many “click me’s”] https://europeantimes.news/2024/05/users-of-antidepressants-may-suffer-due-to-doctors-not-knowing-new-research-and-guidelines/book: The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines The Maudsley® Deprescribing Guidelines is a […]
Calculators and Spreadsheets
INSTRUCTIONS Weighing Tutorial Counting Information ONLINE CALCULATORS Use our calculators and print your Gradual Taper Plan from them. WEIGHING Calculator Page COUNTING Calculator Page SPREADSHEETS These DOWNLOADABLE spreadsheets are in Microsoft Excel format, and can run in Excel or Google Sheets, or any other spreadsheet program that reads .XLSX […]
Want to Stop?
Terms Cymbalta = Cymbalta or generic duloxetine, same active ingredient of drug Duloxetine = Cymbalta or generic duloxetine, same active ingredient of drug Bridging = to rapidly add another antidepressant while rapidly removing the current one – generally NOT safe when trying to come off Cymbalta Cold turkey (CT) = stopping a drug all at once Every-other-day […]
Tapering by Weighing Beads
WHEN TO WEIGHT OR COUNT Since the beads are so small, once the dosage is in about the 20mg range, the scales can not resolve that small a weight. At that point, switch to the counting method https://healthwithoutantidepressants.com/counting/. INTRODUCTION After many years operating a Group on Facebook that currently has ~40,000 members, the operators of […]
Tapering by Counting Beads
METHODS OF TAPERING After many years operating a Group on Facebook that currently has about 40,000 members, the operators of this site have documented a way to slowly wean off of this drug. We call it the GRADUAL TAPER Method. Three methods exist to taper by reducing the doses in a controlled way. Counting Weighing https://healthwithoutantidepressants.com/weighing/ […]
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Contact Us
Please use the Facebook Group “Cymbalta Hurts Worse” for posting or obtaining more info on the Gradual Taper™ method of stopping Cymbalta/Duloxetine. For administrative issues, use our email: admin@HealthWitoutAntidepressants.com Due to a high volume of mail, we cannot respond to individual questions through email.
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Effective: May 2023 Throughout this site, we endeavour to help readers to make their own decisions regarding their own health, to take on a degree of responsibility. We encourage them to visit qualified medical persons and to read very carefully the documents provided with any medication prescribed. We ask them to follow the instructions contained in […]
About Us
THIS SITE DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE. We do not employ doctors or other certified health professionals. Never start, stop, or change the dosage of any prescribed medication without consultation with your medical professional. Much of the material presented here is the result of a decade of refining the Gradual Taper™ method of Cymbalta/duloxetine cessation […]