Thread: cymbalta question?

I missed my dose of cymbalta last night. Today I nearly fainted. I was talking to my daughter on the phone when it happened. I dropped the phone and went down on my knees. The phone broke but I could hear my daughter saying Mom , Mom, what's happening. The phone was in 3 pieces!! LOL
I told my daughter I had nearly fainted and the first thing she said after she asked if I was hurt was " Have you missed a dose of Cymbalta?" and I said yes, last night and she said she had discovered that if she missed a dose she had that problem. She said it took her a while to figure out what was making her fainty and that was all she could come up with. I don't know if this could be true or not. Has any one ever heard of this? Thanks.

I took Cymbalta for years and never had that particular problem... but what happened to me (which I've found through google searches to be fairly common) when I'd miss a dose is I would feel like a lightning storm was going off in my brain. Apparently many drugs in the same family cause it. Side effects are different for everyone though... so it is plausible it could be from missing your dose... try doing a google search and see what you can come up with.

I would never ever ever take Cymbalta. Google cymbalta withdrawals and see what you find! It may help while you are taking it but I think it is a demon drug. What justme is talking about is referred to as brain zaps or a feeling of being short circuited. Its got a LOT of bad history. JMO.

I was taking a different med, and got the brain zaps (electric shocks I call them).


you have to gradually take yourself off them.
I haven't taken them in over a year and I get an occasional zap here and there.

talk to your dr, maybe get switched to something else

Yeah. I'd never take Cymbalta again... Trazodone (which they gave me to sleep) does the same shocks. Won't take that anymore either.

I am on cymbalta now. I have missed a does or two but have never had any problems. I am on this for anxiety and I know when my anxiety gets bad I get really like headed and feel like I am going to pass out. If your on this for anxiety reasons maybe it was that?

I take it for depression. I took prozac for 20 years and it finally quit working. I was then tried on something else that caused me to have projectile vomiting. Then I was put on this. It works fairly well, I think I have a small anxiety problem but it has never been diagnosed. I am on so many meds, bp, diabetic, heart, so my problem could be anything.
Thanks for the responses. I have had those brain shocks but I never knew what caused them. I never associated it with going off a med. Thanks everyone.