Cymbalta

“And the major ones are Venlafaxine and Desvenlafaxine, Cymbalta, and Pristiq. And those can be very effective and potentially less likely to cause the cognitive dulling or affective blunting that people sometimes get with SSRIs”

“But once everything happened, we came off all those meds. I still had to be on quite a few of them. I wasn't, it wasn't a full med washout. We came off the hard, like painkillers. So I could feel all the pain. I was still on Cymbalta, still on Adderall, still on a bunch of these things, blood pressure medications to stop nightmares, all this stuff.”

“That was the thing that I didn't realize was going to be just like being back in that detox. Hospital coming off Cymbalta. If you've ever been on, what is that? It's an SSRI, but it's, um, it's really for pain management for everything else. But I was on that heavy doses of gabapentin.”

“Yeah. Because a lot of them, you have to stay on them. Like for them, like you're never getting off Adderall. You're never getting off Cymbalta. You're never getting off this. Never get off that. So we're still on them all, but now we'll have washed off of everything completely. And when you're truly sober for the first time, you get to realize the life you've”