Week 3 On Cymbalta 60mg

just started third week on cymbalta having discontinued cipramil 40mg for 6 months. At this point still feel extremely depressed with anxiety thrown in. Having sweats bad nausea and headaches feel dreadful. Gp advised to stick with it for at least 4 weeks as should improve?? I do not go back for a hospital appt for 5 weeks, can anyone help and give me some hope with this drug.. Have taken prozac in the past very similiar side effects which improved after about 4 weeks. Thankyou to any one that may be able to help.

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Hi, Mary! Sorry about the difficulties you're having. How are you feeling today?

And yes, it can take about 4 to 6 weeks for the medication to reach its full effectiveness level in your body, so your GP was right. You do need to give it some time.

On top of that, if they had you just suddenly stop the other one, without tapering it, then you've got a bit of a rebound effect going on, which makes things a little worse. From the way you're feeling, that would be my guess as to why you're feeling dreadful. :-(

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