Hello detour1: I don't know the answer to your question. However, I was on Cymbalta for... oh... well over a year, I guess it was (memory fails me...) When I decided I wanted to get off of it, I went in to see my pdoc to get his recommendation regarding a tapering schedule. I had been taking the maximum recommended dosage. He recommended a tapering schedule that took me from the maximum recommended dosage down to 0 over the course of two weeks. I thought that was very fast. However, since that was what he recommended, I went with it & it was okay. I didn't have nay particular problems. Of course, everyone is different & my experience may not be yours. So the best thing to do here is to check back in with your pdoc.