As some of you know, I have been tapering off of cymbalta due to osteoporosis. It is a s/e of cymbalta.

Yesterday, the pain was completely unbearable from my SFN. A little background, last Saturday I lowered my cymbalta from 90mgs to 60 mgs. The first s/e I had was severe nausea. That lasted for about 4 days. I was unable to really eat and had no appetite .

On Tuesday I had an IVIG Rx and my doctor ordered Zofran with my Rx and it helped since then the nausea has only been intermittent. Tuesday night after my Rx I could not sleep at all and my pain was unbearable. I did not sleep all night. Finally, at 6am on Wednesday I fell asleep just because I was exhausted. I was only able to sleep for 4 hours. I was in so much pain yesterday all I did was cry off and on. I did take Percocet 5mgs twice to help but nothing really made a difference.

I went to bed last night and took a Benadryl. I was still awake at midnight so I took another. I did fall asleep and slept through the night. Thank goodness! When I woke today the pain was a little better. Wondering if that is from using the mag lotion before bed. It is still worse than usual. I feel really anxious and I know it is the lower dose of cymbalta!

Now I have to decrease the dose again. I was going to wait till after the weekend but I think I am going to drop another 30mgs tomorrow. My husband will be home for the weekend. This way if things get too bad he'll be here.

I'm not looking forward to this. Mrs. D I know you recommended L-tryptophan. During research I saw it was counterindicated for those taking tramadol so I don't know if I should try it. I am going to get the multivitamin for the B6.

If I had know how hard it is to come off of cymbalta I would not have taken it. I'm a mess! Crying, anxious, severe pain! I actually feel terrible because I recommended this med to others.

For those of you who do, please say a prayer for me. I still have several weeks left to get through this. Hopefully, it goes better than this first week!!

Sorry for be so down. I'm bringing it here because I know all of you understand