Gradually taper off Cymbalta with help from your healthcare provider to avoid severe withdrawal symptoms. Stopping Cymbalta suddenly can cause symptoms like dizziness, nausea, and trouble sleeping.

Cymbalta (duloxetine) is a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) antidepressant that can cause withdrawal symptoms if you stop taking it suddenly or lower your dosage too quickly.

“More than half (56 percent) of people who attempt to come off antidepressants experience withdrawal effects,” assert the authors of a major new metastudy, and almost half of them (46 percent) ...