I was on Cymbalta for about a year at 90mg and experiencing severe loss of appetite and nausea, last few weeks. I have been advised to reduce to 60mg a day for a week then 30mg for a week, then stop. I am experiencing severe agitation, crying for no reason, overly sensitive and overall fatigue and just feel horrible and more depressed. Is this normal?
Greetings ! Welcome to the site. Well, no this is not normal as it seems like you are still reeling under the depressive cognition and Cymbal ta after 1 year long use has become ineffective owing to increased tolerance/ resistance that your body must have developed against it. So while I support the idea of bringing you off Cymbal ta, but the weaning strategy can be improved by first bringing you down to 60 mg dose and after 1 week further down to 40 mg dose / day and then after 1 week down to 20 mg / day dose and then after 1 week taking 20 mg dose every alternate day for another week and then stopping the Chat Doctor.  This slow tapering of the dose is essential to prevent development of with