I was on Cymbalta for 2 months 60 milligrams 3 days ago I started taking prozac 20 milligrams stop the Cymbalta cold turkey I am wondering if would help with that the withdrawals or would it be dangerous.and how long should I expect the Cymbalta 2 affect me or how long does it stay in your system
Cymbalta is brand name of antidepressant duloxetine which has half life in body of 8 to 17 hours, means it requires average 12 hrs for its concentration to become half after oral intake... when u take it regularly the steady state plasma level is achieved n it requires at least 24 to 40 hours for Chat Doctor.  The strategy u ve started to avoid the discontinuation symptoms of cymbal ta is appropriate n good. Actully cymbal ta causes discontinuation symptoms because it has lower half life while Prozac has half life 4 to 6 days after chronic administration. So take Prozac regularly for 15 days and then keep it alternate day n then if u want to stop it, stop after another 15 days it won't cause discontinuation symptoms because of the long half life.