"i was given this medicine in hospital to help with pain/nerve damage after a ruptured disc. beware it made me suicidal! i am a normal, healthy person but after a week or so on this, i started sobbing almost all the time and was in total despair. fortunately, my husband worked out what the stimulus was and i was told to stop taking the medicine immediately. this was recommended as the withdrawal effects would be better than carrying on with it and weaning off. it took a couple of weeks but i could only have close friends around who understood that at any moment, a wave of crying would over take me but wouldn&#039;t last."