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Unfortunately, heightened side-effects and raised anxiety levels often occur when increasing the dose. These usually resolve within a couple of weeks, but it may take longer for the higher dose to produce a positive outcome. Sadly, ADs are not a quick fix.


Hi again Panic Down Under.

Hope you’re doing ok. I’m having some issues with sleep: basically I can get to sleep for a couple of hours but then from the early hours until it’s time to get up, I’m getting adrenaline rushes that wake me up, one after another. It’s weird because I’m both tired and full of adrenaline. Is this part of the side effects of dose increase do you think? It’s awful.

Any insights welcome. I did wonder if maybe taking propranolol would help during these early weeks of 60mg of duloxetine?

I’m so worried duloxetine isn’t going to work for me anymore… But at the same time, I feel like the fact I’ve had side effects shows my body is ‘acknowledging’ the drug???