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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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Tapering from 90mg and Above

We suggest that people taking more than 90mg of duloxetine may be able to drop immediately to 90mg IF they meet the certain criteria that is listed in below.

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…

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/ […]

A chronic pain diet

Cymbalta and duloxetine are commonly prescribed for neurological pain management. We suggest there are better ways to reduce or eliminate pain that are diet-based. Consider the options presented in this post…