I'm new to the website and I think it's excellent.

Help please.

Been on Cymbalta for just over four months. This was following a horrendous withdrawal from Seroxat. Prior to Cymbalta - I have tried Citalapram, Nortriptylene and Sertraline - all with little effect.

I seemed to get a positive response to the Cymbalta just about a week after starting. That "good" feeling didn't last very long and mood dropped but not drastically.

The medication just feels like it has taken the edge off my depression. I suffer bad anxiety and the med was helping me to face things which was at least something.

The side effect of insomnia is a real problem for me with this medication and it takes me hours to get off to sleep, when I do I keep waking during the night. During the day I am zombieish.

My mood dropped badly about 3 weeks ago and I just thought it was a blip. However it has not lifted and I have become very tearful again and don't want to go out .

I will be seeing pdoc later in December and I really don't know which way to turn. What med is there to try next. I have had the ssri's and they don't seem to help. The Nortriptylene gave me abnormal heart rythm so I had to come off that anyway.

I am at the stage where I feel that I would like to come off the meds altogether and even if I have to suffer for a while at least I won't have to suffer ad side effects.

Since I came off Seroxat no med has worked for me and the depression has been with me for so long now that Im just really losing hope.

Is there anyone out there who could offer me some advice. With thanks.

Superwoman