Just wondering if anyone has had much experience with amitriptyline?

I have been on it since mid Feb this year, was put on by neurologist who said that I should give it a long term trial. Started at 25mg now up to 75mg to treat both depression and act as a preventer of CH.

Since being on it i have felt tired all the time, the first month was exhausting due to having uni assignments, a hospital placement and having to work in the evenings.

Now it is not so bad but since starting it my mood swings have been erractic and extreme, whereas before I would get very down for a few days, now its a sudden jump from being ok to wanted to lock myself away and never come out, then the next day be ok again.

the worst thing I have found is that it kinda does prevent the headaches but it has made them more of a permanant background headache, never so intense as they normally are but enough that they are disturbing to my day. Some days i will have occasional severe headaches, but like I said most of the time its a dull background headaches that makes me so moody because it distracts me so I am becoming very short tempered with everyone around me.

Does anyone have any experience with this drug? I am starting to get more depressed being on the drug than i was off it, I feel so bad for what I am putting the people around me through. I am thinking of speaking to my doctor and changing from amitriptyline to something else and trying to make things better.

Any advice would be greatly recieved.

Stuart

I used it and after a week or two it worked to kill an episode, but the side effects (stumbling, forgetting everything, zoning out, drooling, zombiing, and disappointing the little woman) were so strong, that I never used it again.

good luck

I've stopped taking it for a few months. It didn't do much for my CH, and I got the impression that it made me even more tired than I already did. I started at 25 mg and upped to 75 mg. What term did your doctor have in mind? Mine said that if it didn't work after 6 weeks, I could stop taking it.

Lottie

I was put on 100mg of Amitriptyline about two years ago for depression.. On top of that I am on 100 mg of Topamax as a preventitive. Feels like I'm walking through water up to my neck carrying a bag of sand.

Decided on my next visit to my shrink I'm going off the Ami. Seems like your post was the voice that finally said enought of that crap!

Thanks Stuart.....Vibes when I needed them

Iddy

xrayuk wrote on May 14^th, 2009 at 10:10am:


Hi Stuart

Have a look at the OUCH(UK) webiste (if you haven't already) especially this link ;

Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or

It's a part completed copy of the Home Oxygen Order Form (HOOF) with the important bits for CH'ers pre filled in already.  If you can, print it off and take to your GP.

Good luck

Rod